WhiteHouse.gov

The Washington Post has a great monthly feature going, where they ask a panel of technology experts to grade WhiteHouse.gov on the basis of some of the same goals, including transparency and interactivity, that the Obama team set out for its administration during the campaign. But what's most interesting for me is not the particular letter grades the judges are giving to the White House website, but how they're talking about the technological cusp that we're on, and how the president can build buy-in, or miss an opportunity to push new, responsive forms of communication:

"In the same way FDR was able to use radio 'Fireside Chats' to talk to the American public to understand his decisions and his vision leaving them inspired to subscribe to it and adjust their expectations accordingly, this President has the same opportunity with an exponentially more powerful medium to not only lead us to achieve his vision, but to invite us to help get us all there faster," said Rasiej, who served as an adviser to the Obama transition's technology, innovation and government reform group. In a way, Obama's innovative use of the Internet during his campaign set a high bar for what he would do once he occupied the Oval Office. As Miller explained, "When it comes to transparency and citizen engagement, it still has a long way to go to meet the expectations that the President himself set during the campaign."