{"id":57219,"date":"2016-10-17T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=57219"},"modified":"2016-10-17T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:39:13","slug":"first-ever-u-s-presidentialgovernment-bot-our-latest-way-to-bring-your-government-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/10\/17\/first-ever-u-s-presidentialgovernment-bot-our-latest-way-to-bring-your-government-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever U.S. presidential\/government bot: &#8220;Our Latest Way to Bring Your Government to You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/removing-barriers-constituent-conversations\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Our latest way to bring your government to you<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from whitehouse.gov<br \/>\n<em>Why we&#8217;re open-sourcing the code for the first-ever government bot on Facebook Messenger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/whitehouse.gov\/files\/images\/Bot%20GIF%202_0.gif\" alt=\"botgif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On August 26th, President Obama publicly responded to a Facebook message sent to him by a citizen\u2014a first for any president in history. Since then, he has received over one and a half million Facebook messages, sent from people based all around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While receiving messages from the public isn\u2019t a recent phenomenon\u2014every day, the White House receives thousands of phone calls, physical letters, and submissions through our online contact form\u2014being able to contact the President through Facebook has never been possible before. Today [10\/14\/16], it\u2019s able to happen because of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/m.me\/whitehouse\">first-ever government bot on Facebook messenger.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/anyone-chat-white-house-bot-201642621.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Anyone can chat with the White House&#8230; through a bot<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from yahoo.com<br \/>\n<em>With the new presidential &#8220;bot&#8221; on Facebook Messenger, users can send messages, 10 of which will be read each day by President Barack Obama<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest way to bring your government to you &#8212; from whitehouse.gov Why we&#8217;re open-sourcing the code for the first-ever government bot on Facebook Messenger. &nbsp; Excerpt: On August 26th, President Obama publicly responded to a Facebook message sent to him by a citizen\u2014a first for any president in history. Since then, he has received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,817,433,816,285,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-bots","category-communications","category-facebook","category-legislation-legislatures","category-open-courseware-and-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57225,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57219\/revisions\/57225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}