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Linder Receives Gold Mouse Award

(2/14/2008)
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.

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