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How would you improve the Pennsylvania General Assembly's web presence?

The General Assembly's website should be as advanced, intuitive and valuable as possible. 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.

(Like their constituents, more and more Pennsylvania legislators are making good use of Twitter and other social media. To that end, I have 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 posted. Creating these automatic tweets will be a useful way to help keep the public informed about what the General Assembly is doing, and I believe Pennsylvania will be among the first states in the nation to provide this service.)

You, as users of the website, are in the best position to offer ideas on how it can be improved. No suggestion is too large or too small. The more we hear from you, the better the General Assembly's web presence can be.

Here's how you can help:

• Tweet your ideas to: @SenatorPileggi
• Tweet using the hashtag #PAGAwebideas
• Send me an email: dpileggi@pasen.gov
• Send me postal mail: Senator Pileggi, 350 Main Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17120
• Distribute this PDF flyer to anyone who might be interested in helping.

Suggestions on improving  the General Assembly's mobile website are also welcome.

My goal is for the General Assembly's web presence to be among the best in the nation. Getting ideas directly from the public is the best way to make that happen.

I plan to schedule a public hearing with the Legislative Data Processing Committee, which I chair, on Wednesday, March 7, to discuss this topic more fully. If you would like to testify at the hearing, please send me a summary of your proposed testimony. Written testimony will also be accepted and considered.

UPDATE: The Legislative Data Processing Committee will meet on March 28 for a public hearing on the topic of improving the General Assembly's web presence.