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How Would You Fix Harrisburg… ‘s Website?

By Keegan Gibson, Managing Editor

Pa. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi wants to know how lawmakers can make the Capitol’s web presence better.

In a press release Tuesday morning, Pileggi asked the public for ideas on improving the relatively white-bread site more “advanced, intuitive and valuable.”

“With the emergence of social media and other web-based technologies that can help people be fully engaged in the legislative process, it is time to ask our customers – the citizens of Pennsylvania – for their ideas on how we can improve the user experience,” Pileggi said.

Below is the full release, along with instructions on how to submit ideas.

This looks worse than the new 7th congressional district.

Senator Pileggi Asks Public to Help Improve the General Assembly’s Web Presence

Ideas to improve the website’s user experience can be shared easily using the Twitter hashtag #PAGAwebideas

HARRISBURG – Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-9) today asked the public to share ideas on how to improve the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s website, www.legis.state.pa.us, and its overall web presence.

“The General Assembly’s website should be as advanced, intuitive and valuable as possible,” said Senator Pileggi. “With the emergence of social media and other web-based technologies that can help people be fully engaged in the legislative process, it is time to ask our customers – the citizens of Pennsylvania – for their ideas on how we can improve the user experience.”

Over the past five years, upgrades to the General Assembly’s website have dramatically increased public access to legislation and the legislative process, including the addition of roll call votes, fiscal notes, and co-sponsorship memos.

Senator Pileggi, who serves as chairman of the Legislative Data Processing Committee and has been a leading proponent of government transparency, urged people to start an immediate conversation about improving the General Assembly’s web presence by tweeting to @SenatorPileggi and using the Twitter hashtag #PAGAwebideas.

Senator Pileggi said he has already asked the Legislative Data Processing Center to create a Twitter feed which will send automatic tweets when roll call votes are posted, when committee meetings are scheduled, and when Legislative Journals (containing the full text of floor debates) are available.

“Like their constituents, more and more Pennsylvania legislators are making good use of Twitter and other social media – and there are ways the General Assembly as an institution can do the same,” said Senator Pileggi. “Creating these automatic tweets will be a useful way to help keep the public informed about what the General Assembly is doing. I believe Pennsylvania will be one of the first states in the nation to provide this service.”

Suggestions from the public on how to improve the legislature’s mobile website, www.palegis.us, are also encouraged.

“No suggestion is too large or too small,” Senator Pileggi said. “The more ideas we get, the better the General Assembly’s web presence can be.”

Senator Pileggi said he will schedule a public hearing on this topic for Wednesday, March 7. Anyone who would like to testify at the hearing, or submit ideas for improving the General Assembly’s web presence, can send email to dpileggi@pasen.gov, tweet to @SenatorPileggi, tweet using the hashtag #PAGAwebideas, or send postal mail to Senator Pileggi, 350 Main Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17120.

Requests to testify should include a summary of the proposed testimony. Written testimony will also be accepted and considered.

“My goal is for the General Assembly’s web presence to be among the best in the nation,” said Senator Pileggi. “Getting ideas directly from the public is the best way to make that happen.”

Other members of the Legislative Data Processing Committee include Speaker of the House Sam Smith, Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Richard Kasunic, House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman, Representative Michael Peifer, Senator Anthony Williams, and Representative Robert Matzie.

More information about state issues is available at Senator Pileggi’s website, www.SenatorPileggi.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SenatorPileggi, or on Twitter at twitter.com/SenatorPileggi.

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