COA – City of Austin Website Progresses: City Council to Meet June 18, New RFP in July!
[Excerpted from my personal blog Uber.la]
City of Austin Web Site NEWS: The city web staff, including Gail Roper and Doug Marshall, will go before City Council June 18 to make the case for rebooting the redesign process. A revised request for proposal will be issued in July.
The Chronicle written a nice piece the City of Austin Website Project. And they have dutifully jumped on the Whurley/Open Austin bandwagon for photo ops and good press. I’m afraid I have a couple issues with the article for two reasons.
There is one BIG MISS in the reporting.
And an EVEN BIGGER MISS in the Open Austin plan.
The BIG MISS on the reporting: It was the TWITTER Activist process that paused City Council in their tracks.
When the issue was initially broadcast on Twitter, the Thursday before the Friday vote by the City Council. A group of Tweeters began rallying the troupes to demand a halt to the Cignex award. (I was but one of many who began to ReTweet the information to the twitterverse. I believe Lanie Rosales of Social Media Labs proposed the hashtag #coawebsite that started the cascade of voices and ACTION that put the VOTE ON HOLD.
At this point #OpenAustin and OpenAustin.org did not exist. Mr. Hurley was not involved in the process or the tweeting activisit action that ensued.
See the full post on Uber.la: The Chronicle Gets Whurley About the City of Austin Website Campaign #OpenAustin #COAwebsite
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