Ask Your Lawmaker, Web 2.0 Style

Thursday, April 24. 2008

The US election season is in full swing ("are we there yet?" plead the kids...) and one of the more interesting related online political efforts is the "Ask your Lawmaker" service of Capitol News Connection (CNCNews). We worked with CNCNews in 2007 on the strategic planning for the new service, and we also did the information architecture.

What AYL provides is an online tool for people to pose questions for specific legislators, for people to vote on the questions of most interest to them, and then for AYL staff to go out and get answers to the most popular questions. Our lead Information Architect for the project, Nam-ho Park has recently blogged about the "Web 2.0" interactivity that AYL provides:

What differentiates this site from the Digg's of the online world is that this site has a physical component. The CNCNews reporters actually go out and accost lawmakers in the corridors of the US Capitol, waiting for them in various strategic locations, where they know they will be passing through.

It's a pretty innovative service - read more of Nam-ho's review of it.

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Influence covers innovations in communication, Internet technology and strategy to generate influence on important public policy issues. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.