As Nancy noted on Thursday, President-elect Obama's transition website, Change.gov, "echoes [the] campaign pledge of open government." But as of last night, the entire "Agenda" section has been removed from Change.gov, replaced by three broad sentences about what Obama hopes to do. Where did it go?

This morning I attended the Adfero Group's Winning in a Web World forum at the US Chamber of Commerce. The topic of this forum was "How Associations Engage Online in a Presidential Election." The half-day forum started out with a panel on User Generated Campaigns, featuring among others one of our newest TechPresident colleagues, Patrick Ruffini. Patrick was joined by David Almacy, who used to serve as the Internet and eCommunications Director for the White House and is now a digital media strategy consultant. The second panel featured e-advocacy strategists from AARP, Children's Defense Fund, and Strong Schools for America to talk about how they were leveraging the campaigns to raise awareness of their issues.

Note: Since this post originally went up, the Clinton campaign has added an issue link on its navigation menu.
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I go to a presidential candidate website, I want to know issues. They may want my money and my email address, but I want to know what I would get if I give a candidate my vote.

I went to Rudy’s website, found the issues page and got a big picture of him with cops, then a list of generic issues with a short paragraph after each. I want more detail. And I expect every candidate to provide me a detailed issues section.

Then I went to Hillary’s site. I was stunned. There is no issues page. Sure, there is plenty of issue-related content on her blog and in the news clippings, but nothing as easy as a list of issues with a short paragraph. Not even a search function to compensate.