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EMERGE Montgomery Presidential Debate
Fri. Oct. 31, 01:58pm EST
EMERGE Montgomery hosted a Presidential debate between US Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama representing Senator Barack Obama, and Alabama Representative Cam Ward representing Senator John McCain at the Archives and History Museum in Montgomery on Wednesday night, October 29th.
EMERGE Montgomery is a program of Leadership Montgomery in partnership with the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce. It is a built-in-network of contacts for 22-40 year olds who currently live in the Montgomery area or are considering Montgomery as a place to live. Their mission is to network, develop professionally, create partnerships, and influence decisions that make Montgomery a desired location for young professionals to live, work, play, and discover.
Politics4All was able to spend some time with both participants of the debate and conducted interviews with each. We also taped the entire debate, and will have that posted as soon as we can. Enjoy the interviews and post your comments.
Alabama State and Congressional Representatives on Social Networking and Election 2008:
Alabama State Representative Cam Ward
Alabama Congressman Artur Davis
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One way Local Governments will use Politics4All
We know that there will be many new ways to use Politics4All as we move forward that have yet to be discovered. We are counting on our users to come up with innovative ways to employ our services. With that in mind, I'm going to explain an application that we came up with that will be very useful to local governments.
For the sake of this illustration, let's call our community Otisburg (remember the movie Superman?).
Okay, Otisburg's Communications Director puts the Mayor's profile on Politics4All and says to himself, "self, we could really use this in a creative way to communicate with our citizens." He then creates a group profile for Otisburg. On this profile, he lists the city's department heads, pertinent phone numbers, and updates of city news and events. He then goes into the search function and finds all users in Otisburg and invites them to join this group.
The Traffic Director wants to notify Otisburg's citizens that the right lane of Main Street is going to be closed and the speed limit will be reduced to 15mph in the work zone. When he sends out his update using Politics4All, each user following Otisburg will receive this notification on thier MyP4A page. If so connected, they'll also receive this update on their Blackberry or other PDA.
The city Sanitation Director wants to remind everyone that the upcoming Labor Day weekend will push trash pick-up to Tuesday instead of the normal Monday pick-up. He can send this update to everyone following Otisburg on Politics4All and they'll get it instantly.
The Otisburg Police Chief sends out an Amber Alert to all followers of Otisburg using Politics4All, and they get it, instantly.
Otisburg's Leisure Director gets confirmation that a groovy new band has agreed to perform at the Otisburg's "Battle of the Bands" and sends that to all of Otisburg's followers, instantly.
Otisburg's Finance Director seals the deal on a new manufacturing plant, meaning 500 new jobs. He uses Politics4All to inform the citizens of the good news, instantly.
There's a snow storm coming, and the School Superintendent sends out the school closings using Politics4All, and Otisburg's citizens get it on thier profile pages and Blackberry's, instantly.
As you can see, Politics4All has multiple uses. This application alone could revolutionize the way a municipal government communicates with it's citizens. Please think of other ways that Politics4All can be used and blog them here.
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P4A Rules
Wed. Aug. 20, 11:04pm EST
This is the most exciting thing I've ever been involved in. I truly believe that we are going to change political communications forever.
