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Undercover Persuasion by Tech Industry Lobbyists (The Washington Post) As K Street insiders harness the power of social networking on websites such as Twitter and Facebook, one journalist questions...
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Transparency Caucus Kicks Off (Hillicon Valley) Last week twenty-six lawmakers kicked off a new caucus dedicated to making government more transparent and accountable. Major Findings from the 2010...
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POIA Would Make the Government Work Better (Sunlight Foundation) Some believe the recently introduced Public Online Information Act (POIA), which will make public information available online, will...
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Bringing Blogging’s Energy to the Department of, Well, You Know (TechPresident) The Department of Energy launches a new blog, aptly named Energy Blog, aiming to increase transparency and engagement....
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Can Case Studies and Code Chunks Help Open the Democratic Party? (Tech President) The Democratic National Committee unveils new open-source site Open.Democrats.org aimed to increase transparency &...
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The hard-working transparency advocates at the Sunlight Foundation have released a new suite of tools called Politiwidgets. Each tool in the 10-widget set is as easily customizable and embeddable by...
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Contrary to Popular Belief, Constituents Trump Lobbyists
Cross-posted from The Partnership for a More Perfect Union Communicating with Congress blog Today, CMF and the Partnership released a new survey of congressional staff which reveals that they believe...
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Peter Slen of C-SPAN’s The Communicators filmed the segment below at the State of the Net Conference on January 27, 2011 — in it, Ambassador Philip Verveer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S....
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Can One Website Bring Transparency to Online Giving? (Mashable) WePay’s financial platform has embraced the non-profit world by allowing for transparency in its donations. Inside Think Tanks’ Digital...
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Iowa Gov to Host Weekly YouTube Address (Tech President) Gov. Branstad will be soliciting questions via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, then responding to them every Friday in a weekly segment called...
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