The Harper and Obama Websites: One Voice or Many?
January 29th, 2010
I’ve been looking at the Government of Canada portal and Prime Minister Harper’s website as well as the White House portal. The differences between the US and Canadian sites are dramatic.
In a word, the essence of the Canadian sites is political messaging, and the message is all about Stephen Harper. Both the Canada portal and the PM’s site have three columns, and the eye is drawn to the top of the middle column – the widest column – which contains news stories almost always featuring the photogenic (or not) Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister’s site has the news of the day dominating the central column, priorities and utilities in the left column and video and audio in the right column. Today, there are 7 – count
David Zussman
January 29th, 2010 at 10:55 am
this is a most interesting series of observations. It does highlight the differences in the their philosophies with regards to governing.