Legicrawler News : : June 2009 |
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| Legicrawler President Dennis Krantz heading into "the cloud" at the JavaOne conference 
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What's New in Government Relations? Welcome to Web 2.0 What is "cloud computing?" And why does it matter to you? Cloud computing is the hottest thing in information technology. It matters to you because you want the latest in state and federal developments. Suppose you're tracking legislation. In the old days, this meant following updates of information fed into one giant database. IT specialists wrote software and managed the data on a large computer or in a "server farm." Now, with the proliferation of data sources and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, you can mix numerous resources into your own personalized legislative tracking report. That's cloud computing, a specialty of Legicrawler's. Cloud computing offers freedom from the tired routines of the traditional vendor's legacy software. Why be bound by some old program written for a clunky database? You want real-time, dynamic data. All web-based and open to, say, a tweet from a lobbyist or government relations peer. That's right, one of your peers working Twitter from the other side of the country. You just might want your colleague's comment to show up in a note on your priority tracking report. Legicrawler makes that happen. Suppose you are tracking an issue. Legicrawler emails you when an on-point bill is introduced anywhere in the U.S. (or Canada). You write a note under the bill's brief description on your tracking report. Your colleague on the other side of the country sees the report and has a thought about it at the airport. She tweets you with the thought and the tweet is attached to your note under the brief description. You have a virtual blog going, not bound by outdated software. It's not surprising that Legicrawler is at home in the cloud. We have been a leader in collaborative real-time networking for the past 10 years with such popular widgets as our "Map Page" and search applications. And if you like the Legicrawler State News Tracker above, email us or give us a call to see how you can add our news feed to your web site.
| Atlanta: American Legislative Exchange Council 2009 Annual Meeting July 15 
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