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Hearing to address White House social-media preservation policies next week
David Ferriero, the Archivist of the U.S., will be testifying next week at a hearing that will address digital preservation of White House social media.
- White House officials to explain social-media policies next week, By Gautham Nagesh, The Hill (04/28/11). Senior White House officials will explain the Obama administration's policy for preserving tweets and other messages sent using social networks at a House Oversight hearing next Tuesday. The White House's official policy states that all messages between the president and his staffers and third parties on social-media sites like Twitter and Facebook must be preserved under the Presidential Records Act. That includes all tweets as well as direct messages and replies sent to official accounts. But panel Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said it remains unclear what the administration's policies are for unofficial accounts still used for official communications, such as the personal accounts of some staff members....
Closer Look: Inside Obama’s West Wing
Much fun: interactive 3D map of the West Wing.
- Closer Look: Inside Obama's West Wing, The National Journal (March 25, 2011)
Open Source code from the White House!
White House contributes to open-source project, GCN (Apr 22, 2010).
Much of the [White House website] is already open source as part of the Drupal project.... Today's release [of open source code for Whitehouse.gov] adds custom code to Drupal, making the White House a participant in open-source development. The release adds four modules to enhance three key characteristics: scalability, communication and accessibility.See the announcement "WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code" Posted by Dave Cole on April 21, 2010 at 04:26 PM EDT at http://www.whitehouse.gov/tech. Continue reading
White House uses Google AdWords against Wall Street
The White House unleashes AdWords against Wall Street, by Patricio Robles, Econsultancy (22 April 2010).
When you do a search on Google for 'goldman sachs sec' or 'goldman sachs fraud' and even 'goldman sachs' itself, you're likely to be greeted with an ad from the president himself: "Help Change Wall Street."Hat tip to Kevin Taglang! Continue reading
White House site goes open source!
Today, the White House Web site (whitehouse.gov) switched to the [w:open source] Drupal platform -- the same software running FGI! I'm glad they made the shift. It's one thing to talk about transparency the way the Obama administration has done, it's another to use tools imbued with openness and transparency in order to get to that goal.
White House opens Web site programming to public
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press
Saturday, October 24, 2009
[tip 'o the hat to Chris Messina!] Continue reading
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