JeanneShaheen.org Site Revision

by: Jonathan Schleifer

Thu May 08, 2008 at 16:01:36 PM EDT

The URL is the same (www.jeanneshaheen.org ) - the look, and functionality are very different.

We placed a major emphasis on dynamic content, multimedia, and community building tools.

One new feature we are excited about is our personal fundraising pages. Please start one today!

Please visit the site and tell me what you think.

Together we can elect Jeanne Shaheen to the US Senate - our site is one more way for us to work together.

Thanks,

jcs

Jonathan Schleifer
Director of Online Communications
Jeanne Shaheen for Senate

Blue Hampshire now on Twitter (/bh and /bhnews)

by: Mike Caulfield

Mon May 07, 2007 at 20:35:50 PM EDT

How? First, go to Twitter and sign up for a free account.

It's absolutely free. It takes approximately 2 minutes. Make sure you register your phone by texting the special code to 40404.

Once you do that, you can get the headlines of our front page sent to your phone by going to twitter.com/bh and clicking "add" on the right sidebar.

That won't give you the stories on the sidebar though, so I've introduced a convention: any story, front-paged or not, which is tagged as "news" will show up in the BH "News" feed at twitter.com/bhnews.

One of the neat things about this is it will hopefully encourage people with short posts that simply feature a single piece of new information (a Senate vote, for example) to post that small story and tag it as news, so that people on the site can stay abreast of events. I'd love people to find out about the drug reimportation bill through us first -- this is a step towards that.

(There's a whole additional thing I'm developing over at Twitter Nation that deals with citizen-based micro-reporting, but we'll save that for another day.)

Ask question below; I'll do my best to answer.

Legislators! Join Twitter Nation and start microreporting!

by: Mike Caulfield

Wed May 02, 2007 at 07:39:23 AM EDT

For those of you who do, though, especially those of you in the legislature, I have a simple idea: Twitter as a microreporting platform.

The idea as it pertains to legislators is this: You publish the address your twitter feed to www.twitternation.com, noting the news you will cover. When newsworthy events happen (e.g. civil unions is passed) you twitter out the vote and any other details by texting the twitter number.

By just feeding out the news you hit in the course of your job, you will be keeping those that subscribe to you up-to-the-minute on legislation. More importantly, as you build subscribers, you'll actually have a small army of people you can call on, instantly, for help during public hearings and the like.

And of course it costs you nothing: just sign up for twitter, and tell me your feed, and I'll post it on Twitter Nation.

Like I said, a major post on this will be forthcoming for those with no knowledge of twitter. But if you know enough to get yourself signed up, do so, and send me (keenenh at gmail) your information.

Twitter Nation will also be supporting microreporting of other events as well, from little league scores, to traffic info, to school board decisions. So to all non-legislators, you're invited too. If you can text, you can report.

Let me know...

Dodd's Debate War Room On BH Tonight, LIVE

by: Mike Caulfield

Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 06:59:38 AM EDT

Just wanted to give a heads up on something the Dodd campaign is doing during the debate.  Being a New Hampshire blog, we'd especially love your participation.

We are going to be doing a real time live-stream from inside the debate war room.  You would be able to embed the stream on your blog ... just like a youtube clip.

The Deputy Campaign Manager and Policy Director (and other staffers) are going to field questions submitted throughout the debate, answering them as they come in in real-time.

Since candidates only have 60 seconds to an answer questions, maybe people want more information on why Dodd supports Reid-Feingold?  Maybe there's a question not asked during the debate?  Do folks want to know from our research director whose rhetoric is not matching their record?  Maybe they just want to see what the war room is like during a debate.

I am going to be scanning the blogs emedding the stream on their on their sites and getting as many questions answered as possible over the course of the hour and a half.  I can promise to make sure those submitted on your site are among them.

So we're going to do this, because it's frankly one of the coolest ideas I've seen in a while. For a future debate, I could imagine we'd have multiple diaries where you could wander into different candidates war rooms during the debate.

But for tonight, it's Dodd, because it's his team that grabbed the brass ring here and rethunk it.

So see you all back here tonight? (Oh, and give Tim some love for this idea below the fold).