District-by-District Organizing Tool
- App URL
- http://districtbydistrict.summerhilldesign.com/
- Source URL
- http://districtbydistrict.summerhilldesign.com/source.zip
- Description
The District-by-District Organizing Tool is a full-featured social networking site that empowers users to lobby congressional representatives in order to effect change. By aggregating data from a variety of public sources, the network makes available the most complete data set possible for each representative and senator. Election years, historical results, maps of districts, words mentioned in congress, senators, and a variety of other information is made available within the context of a local dialogue. Everything is "commentable", and the service provides an easy-to-use forum for more substantive discussion. News suggestion, events listing/RSVPing, profiles (with images), a full-featured message system and a registration system that lets users easily identify their district are just some of the features.
An affiliation system is also included to allow the administrator of the service to add groups that users can add to their profiles. The goal of this feature down the line is to allow all of the outside groups lobbying for change along the lines of the community to be integrated into the service.
I think the best description for this tool is that it's a social network for congressional change that's open for anyone to use, change and improve upon. By integrating the facts into the network, I hope that this tool will help create district communities around issues.
Note for people reviewing the site's functionality: Check out the red speech bubbles to see the comment system, upload a picture to see the cropping for image profiles and try sending messages to multiple people.
This application was submitted by Addy Cameron-Huff on March 31, 2009