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Ryan’s Web Site Wins 2007 Gold Mouse Award
 The Congressional Management Foundation today announced the winners of its 2007 Gold Mouse Award for the best web sites in Congress, and the web site of Wisconsin’s First District Congressman Paul Ryan is among those being recognized for excellence with a Gold Mouse Award. The site,
www.house.gov/ryan, was one of only 104 web sites commended in
The 2007 Gold Mouse Report: Lessons from the Best Web Sites on Capitol Hill, and it was one of only 36 sites to receive the Gold Mouse Award.
The Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) is a non-profit, non-partisan management consulting and research organization. To identify the awards, CMF analyzed 618 congressional web sites, including those of all House and Senate Members, committees, and official leadership sites. In 2007, CMF awarded 36 Gold, 34 Silver, and 34 Bronze Mouse Awards.
“Our web site is an extension of our constituent services centers, and I’m pleased that it’s being recognized for providing plenty of up-to-date content and useful resources for constituents in a straightforward, readable manner,” Ryan said. “It’s important for people to be able to turn to their congressional web site for helpful information and tools they can use to get the answers and assistance they need. We’ve worked hard to make sure the site serves First District residents well, and we’ll keep working to maintain this high standard.”
The 2007 Gold Mouse Report and Awards are part of the “Connecting to Congress” research project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. For this project CMF partnered with researchers from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, University of California-Riverside and Ohio State University to study how Members of Congress can use the Internet to improve communications with their constituents and to promote greater participation in the legislative process.
Web sites were graded on how well they incorporate five basic building blocks: audience, content, usability, interactivity, and innovation. Using these building blocks, an evaluation framework was developed by CMF and its research partners which would be objective while still taking into account important qualitative factors that affect a visitor’s experience on a web site.
A full copy of the report, the 2007 Gold Mouse Report: Lessons from the Best Web Sites on Capitol Hill, is available on CMF’s web site at
www.cmfweb.org.
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