Projects:ElectionPortal

DistributedPlanningGame / Election Portal (Kasey Goltra)

The 2008 Presidential Election Portal is an OngoingProject

Why we're doing this

  • Create a model for political portals.
  • Help drive traffic using a high interest topic

We'll have this when:

  • Election day 2008 comes and goes
  • We have updated the following info each week:
    • The social stats have been updated
    • Update Important Upcoming Dates
    • Update featured candidate
    • News links are updated
  • Candidate pages are built out with the following criteria:
    • Each page has a completed candidate template
    • News links
    • Social links
    • Completed contact info


People

  • Kasey is organizing this
  • Asad

Not involved, but willing to help

  • Tak
  • Scott

Project Tasks

  • Update Social Stats everyday (easy with Ward's script)
  • Find and add relevant news on candidates (add to candidate's pages)
    • Add AboutUs as a stat column and tie to a metric of edits or something similar
    • Add Independents to the chart
    • Balance the stats and calculate overall "Internet Presence"; sort on Internet Presence
  • Update Featured Candidate weekly
  • Update Important Upcoming Dates
  • Create voting record table
  • Create issues table
  • Update quotes weekly

Discussion



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