Wiki source for President
**====President and Vice President Schedules Guide====**
As the highest office and traditionally most viewed officials on our webpage, the Presidential schedule should be top priority, and updated three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
**Collecting Presidential and Vice Presidential Statements:**
~- Open the President's page in Admin.
~- Go to https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog.
~- Open up the "Briefings and Statements" section
~- Look through the recently posted items, keeping in mind that new items are not always put at the top of the list. As a cheat, look for key words that signal statements that should be collected (Remarks, Statement, Presidential Message, Letter etc.)
~- Open new tabs for all items which have not been entered into Admin.
~- Close all items in which the President does not speak. Close proclamations.
~- Be sure to put anything from the Vice President in his admin profile rather than that of the president.
For Each Public Statement:
~- Be careful with locations--many public statements do not explicitly include a location in the traditional format. It is common for the location to be Washington DC; the location sometimes references a very specific part of the White House (rose garden, South Lawn, etc.) these can all be entered as 'Washington, DC'
**Collecting Presidential and Vice Presidential Tweets:**
As a new source for statement collection, collecting tweets is a different process from regular collection. for more info, refer to Twitter specific collection wiki: http://wiki.votesmart.org/Twitter
~- Open the President/Vice President official twitter account.
~- Look through Twitter feed - Only collect tweets from the Pres./Vice Pres., **do not collect retweets!**
~- Refer to twitter wiki for proper format (Title: 'Tweet - "quoted", Speechtext includes Twitter handle, Speechtype is 'Social Media', Location is always 'Unknown')
~- Work way down Twitter feed until previous most-recently collected Tweet.
As always, be sure to update collection dates on the schedule!
==**Above all other Schedules, the Presidential Schedule should NEVER go out of date!**==
As the highest office and traditionally most viewed officials on our webpage, the Presidential schedule should be top priority, and updated three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
**Collecting Presidential and Vice Presidential Statements:**
~- Open the President's page in Admin.
~- Go to https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog.
~- Open up the "Briefings and Statements" section
~- Look through the recently posted items, keeping in mind that new items are not always put at the top of the list. As a cheat, look for key words that signal statements that should be collected (Remarks, Statement, Presidential Message, Letter etc.)
~- Open new tabs for all items which have not been entered into Admin.
~- Close all items in which the President does not speak. Close proclamations.
~- Be sure to put anything from the Vice President in his admin profile rather than that of the president.
For Each Public Statement:
~- Be careful with locations--many public statements do not explicitly include a location in the traditional format. It is common for the location to be Washington DC; the location sometimes references a very specific part of the White House (rose garden, South Lawn, etc.) these can all be entered as 'Washington, DC'
**Collecting Presidential and Vice Presidential Tweets:**
As a new source for statement collection, collecting tweets is a different process from regular collection. for more info, refer to Twitter specific collection wiki: http://wiki.votesmart.org/Twitter
~- Open the President/Vice President official twitter account.
~- Look through Twitter feed - Only collect tweets from the Pres./Vice Pres., **do not collect retweets!**
~- Refer to twitter wiki for proper format (Title: 'Tweet - "quoted", Speechtext includes Twitter handle, Speechtype is 'Social Media', Location is always 'Unknown')
~- Work way down Twitter feed until previous most-recently collected Tweet.
As always, be sure to update collection dates on the schedule!
==**Above all other Schedules, the Presidential Schedule should NEVER go out of date!**==
