Companies, politicians, celebrities and journalists have all taken to Twitter to promote their brands. But based on a search of Twitter’s API for the names... View Article
Continue readingTop lobbyist hones his craft on Twitter
Lobbying may be lagging behind other industries in its use of Twitter, as lobbyists favor more confidential communications, but that... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Use Topsy to Track Your Content
Topsy is a real-time search engine that pulls links from Twitter and Google+ to help you gauge popular content and... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Managing Contacts with Rapportive
Rapportive is a browser plug-in for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that offers further context on the people emailing you by... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Greplin
The concept behind Greplin is pretty simple – they index the various services you use across the cloud, like Gmail,... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Social media alerts
Over a year ago we got the idea to internally send social media alerts for important Sunlight news and project... View Article
Continue readingAnnouncing Sarah’s Inbox
Today the Sunlight Foundation is proud to unveil Sarah's Inbox, our attempt to make Sarah Palin's recently released email records easier to use with a searchable function and an interface similar to Gmail.
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Know Your Acronyms & Hashtags
You might have started noticing hashtags (like the ones seen on Twitter) and acronyms are frequently popping up in Facebook... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Status Updates with PixelPipe
PixelPipe is a very handy application for quickly posting content to many social media platforms in one go. For example,... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: A Look at #TCamp11
It’s almost been a week since the first day of TransparencyCamp and I want to take a look at some... View Article
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