Twitter Vote Report volunteers will provide real-time reporting on voting issues and solutions SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 3
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- PBwiki Inc., the world's leading
provider of hosted collaboration solutions for businesses and education, today
announced that Twitter Vote Report is using PBwiki to coordinate nationwide
citizen monitoring of the November 2008 elections.
On Election Day millions of Americans in over 200,000 voting locations
will use different systems and machinery to vote. Some voters will have a
terrific experience, and others will experience the same problems the public
has been hearing about for years -- long lines, broken machines, inaccurate
voting rolls, as well as problems that haven't yet been encountered. Using
Twitter.com and the 1-866-Our-Vote Hotline, voters will have a new way to
report and share these experiences and ensure that the media and watchdog
groups are aware of any problems that occur.
PBwiki hosts the easy-to-manage and -edit wiki that helped Twitter Vote
Report coordinate the efforts of the all-volunteer network of software
developers, designers, and other collaborators who have teamed up with the
award-winning blog techPresident to launch this effort.
"PBwiki has been our indispensable intellectual scaffolding for this
networked effort, providing an easy-to-use interface and an institutional
memory that our all-volunteer effort would not have otherwise had," said
Allison Fine, Senior Fellow, techPresident, Twitter Vote Report. "PBwiki hosts
the entire project, everything we're working on, all of our tasks, contacts,
to-do lists and content pieces are all housed there. Wikis built with PBwiki
hosted services provide a very easy format for publishing information on the
Web. PBwiki gives users an intuitive interface for sharing and storing
information."
About Twitter Vote Report
Twitter Vote Report (http://twittervotereport.com) is an all-volunteer
network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators who have
teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to track the voter
experience in the November 2008 US election. Twitter Vote Report will allow
voters to share their experiences and inform readers on the spot when voting
problems occur. Readers of Twitter Vote Report will be prepared to solve
voting problems quickly (e.g. "don't come now, the line is too long").
Messages will be aggregated and mapped to reveal patterns of voting problems
around the country in real-time.
About PBwiki, Inc.
PBwiki (http://pbwiki.com) is the world's leading provider of hosted
collaboration solutions for businesses and education. Leading companies and
organizations like Oracle, DePaul University, and the FDA choose PBwiki to
collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries with employees,
customers, partners, and vendors. We host over 600,000 wikis, serve millions
of users per month, and 94% of users would recommend PBwiki to a friend. Over
40,000 businesses have chosen PBwiki to implement knowledge management,
extranets, project management, and a host of other business processes and
workflows. PBwiki's investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures, Seraph Group,
Sippl Investments, and Ron Conway.
PBwiki is a registered trademark of PBwiki, Inc. All other trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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