Year: 2011

  • POLICY: Rahm Emanuel @ EveryBlock

    Today Chicago Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel visited the EveryBlock offices in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. This was the result of months of advance work with the Emanuel campaign, and it resulted in a large number of media placements for EveryBlock.Here’s the post on the Emanuel campaign Web site: Rahm visits EveryBlock, discusses plan to…

  • Presentation: “Hack The Election” Session at ORD Camp

    Today Dan Sinker and I did a “Hack The Election” session at ORD Camp. I talked about my experience with Aldermanic Websites and he covered Chicago Mayoral Election Scorecard. Here’s my pic:

  • CTA Train Tracker Beta Test + Review

    I’ve been helping test the Train Tracker system for the Chicago Transit Authority over the last few weeks and today (launch day) I wrote an extensive, first-look review over here on CTA Tattler. Here’s a snip: In my experience, the system works great and it is a very positive addition to the overall CTA communications regime.…

  • LAUNCH: AldermanicWebsites.com

    Today I launched a politics/ design/ technology/ humor site called AldermanicWebsites.Here’s the launch post (Comparing Aldermanic Hopefuls Online) and two snippets: Here’s something I worked on over Christmas vacation: AldermanicWebsites. It is a fun/ manic little Web site that “contains links to and reviews of the Web sites, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other Web…