Back in 2002, giving a workshop in Sao Paulo, I showed my students the current White House website. It was pretty dull, but it did offer a page in Spanish. Politically smart, I guess, except that the links on the Spanish page were still in English. Politics on the web was still pretty primitive.
Last year I wrote an article about the gorgeous Barack Obama campaign website. Clearly, the upstart understood the web far better than any other politician on the planet.
Now, on the day of his inauguration, we have an invitation: Welcome to the White House.
Webwriters, take notes. Barack Obama has raised the standard.
Update: Jimmy Orr at the Christian Science Monitor has a good article on the site, written from his perspective as W's original website guy.
I agree that the Obama site is a *vast* improvement over the Bush site, and many other governmental sites; however, there's still much that can be done to make it even better. I just posted a cursory review with my opinions here: blog.cdginteractive.com. Would love to hear your input on my thoughts!
Posted by: Jennifer Hoppe | January 23, 2009 at 07:30 AM