[12466] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Libraries and Election Information Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Clift)
Wed Sep 30 20:08:49 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:10:00 -0500
From: Steven Clift <clift@publicus.net>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: clift@publicus.net
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Dear Library Community,
Enclosed is an important message about an Internet-wide online
public service campaign to promote easy access to 1998 U.S. election
information. Libraries and other Internet public access site
providers play an important role in ensuring most Americans with
important information access to the amazing array of political
information needed for a strong, open democracy.
Please consider joining this effort as well as setting a link from
your Internet public access terminals to the Web White & Blue site
for your patrons.
Sincerely,
Steven Clift
Web White & Blue Project Coordinator
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Web White & Blue http://www.webwhiteblue.org
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Project Announcement Sign up your web site!
Contents
1. Announcing Web White & Blue - Join today!
2. Future announcements via e-mail
3. Spread the word - Make a difference this election
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*> 1. Announcing Web White & Blue - Join today!
Web White & Blue (WWB) is the online public service campaign for
easy access to 1998 election information.
Sign-up your web site today and join over 260 sites from across the
United States in this public service effort. From the largest
commercial online sites and non-profit election information sites to
individual sites, Americans are linking up to promote the tremendous
power of the Internet as a tool for building an active, participatory
democracy.
On October 7, Web White & Blue Day will call attention to the
thousands of web efforts providing important access to the
election-related information and interaction. Do your part by
displaying the WWB icon on your site without delay.
Visit the WWB web site now, sign up as a Participating Site, and
place the WWB icon on your site:
http://www.webwhiteblue.org
Please add the WWB icon to your site before the full citizen-oriented
WWB site with content links to select election directories opens in
early October. Consider using the optional banner ads that are
available as well.
WWB is a non-profit, non-partisan Internet-wide public service effort
coordinated by the Markle Foundation and Harvard's Shorenstein Center
on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. An exciting list of Charter
Participating Sites, including more than 40 of the top commercial and
non-profit sites, is available
<http://www.webwhiteblue.org/participating.html> along with extensive
project details on the WWB web site. Special thanks go to America
Online for its donation of web hosting services.
*> 2. Future announcements via e-mail
To receive weekly project announcements and updates, please join
our one-way e-mail announcement list.
Send a message to:
listserv@webwhiteblue.org
Leave the subject line blank. In the message body write:
subscribe wwb-announce Your Name Here
*> 3. Spread the word
This unique Internet-style public service effort needs your help. It
will only be successful if we all roll up our sleeves and add the WWB
icon to our sites, encourage other sites to join, and help spread the
word across the United States.
Please forward this message appropriately to those you think should
join the WWB public service effort. Pass it through your company or
organization to a decision-maker for quick permission to add the WWB
icon today. If you would like to help us spread the word to a
specific community or audience, drop us an e-mail at:
wwb@webwhiteblue.org
Thank you. And together, we will paint the Internet Web, White and
Blue!
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Web White & Blue http://www.webwhiteblue.org
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Steven Clift - E: clift@publicus.net - ICQ: 13789183
3454 Fremont Ave S, Mpls, MN 55408 T:+1.612.822.8667
Web White & Blue, Project Coordinator - Consulting
http://www.webwhiteblue.org - http://www.publicus.net
Join Democracies Online Newswire To: listserv@tc.umn.edu
"Best of" E-mail-list -> Body: sub do-wire Your Name
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