Subject: Re: A couple of new features From: gale@Heraldnet.com (Bob Gale) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:38:38 -0700

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Steve,

Would you mind sharing a brief synopsis of the software you used for the
voter's guide? Which database did you use, and what tools, if any, did you
use to automate dumping it into print?

- Bob

At 10:02 PM 9/9/96, Steve Yelvington wrote:
>We have two new items that are worth a look and perhaps some discussion:
>
>* Our interactive Minnesota Voter's Guide. Actually, Tuesday is the
>primary election, so this one is short-lived, but it's a prototype for
>our general election coverage. The whole thing is based on heavy use of
>a relational database. A user anywhere in Minnesota can enter his or her
>own address and get back a personalized list of candidates. We'll use
>the same technology to deliver election results as they come in. This
>project involved extensive database work in the newsroom as well -- in
>fact, the printed Voter's Guide was generated out of a database.
>http://www.startribune.com/stonline/voterguide/cgi-bin/index.cgi
>
>* Onlineidea (Instant Digital Education Assistant), a product of our
>Newspaper In Education department. It includes a bulletin board system
>just for teachers and links with Elect To Connect, a joint production of
>the PAFET newspapers. There's a Web-based Carmen Sandiego-like detective
>game as well.
>http://idea.startribune.com/
>
>--
>Steve Yelvington 
>Editor/Manager, Star Tribune Online, Minneapolis-St. Paul
>We're on the Web at http://www.startribune.com/

   B O B  G A L E                         New Media Editor
   gale@heraldnet.com                     The Herald, Everett, WA



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