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A New Campaign Web App For Communication and Transparency

July 26, 2010

Posted by Matt Dunne

Understanding the needs of our state and bringing more Vermonters into the political process are two important ways we can help move our state forward. That’s why today we are proud to launch a new interactive application for Facebook that allows people to share, discuss and vote on questions and answers posed by our campaign. We’re also excited to be beta-testing this application with an innovative company that is based right here in Vermont.

Brick Oven Media is a Colchester-based startup that specializes in cutting edge social media technology. When CEO Thomas Bacon asked us to help test and launch their flagship product, Gooroo, I saw it as a fantastic opportunity not only to encourage and support a local Vermont innovator, but also to utilize a new online platform for communicating with Vermonters.

The Gooroo application is available in the “Q&A Game” tab of our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mattdunnevt or directly at http://apps.facebook.com/mattdunnegooroo. 

Gooroo is specifically designed to encourage open and transparent conversation. The application allows Vermonters to answer questions about a range of topics, including policy ideas, news events, and problems faced by our state. While we’re constantly meeting with Vermonters around the state at events such as service politics projects, house parties, meetings and forums, Gooroo provides a great new platform through which we can engage with people online. By allowing voters to actively interact with their political leaders and with each other, Gooroo helps facilitate the type of open, democratic and accessible political process that is part of Vermont’s history.

Additionally, it’s exciting to see this type of cutting edge software being developed right here in Vermont. As a state, we need to continue encouraging exactly this kind of ingenuity.  The ability for inventive people like Tom Bacon to freely implement their technology and business ideas is absolutely critical for the future of Vermont’s economy.  As a former employee at a small Vermont software company myself, I not only understand the need to build the environment and infrastructure necessary to allow innovators like Gooroo to flourish-- I also have the experience to make it happen.

I encourage you to try out  the Gooroo application today. You can visit it through the “Q&A Game” tab on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mattdunnevt or by accessing it directly at: http://apps.facebook.com/mattdunnegooroo.  Check out the application and join us in a conversation about how to move our state forward.

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