Posted on 08/22/2009 8:30:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.
The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.
The confirmation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third-party groups that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Where did the firm get the email addresses?!
Nope, and the kicker in the proposal is this line:
The contractor shall include in the information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP maintains a presence
Let's say the WH puts out a web video, and that video goes viral... that video could be viewed as a "presence" on any web site it gets posted on, giving them the right to archive those sites.
you know,no matter how poorly the majority of the fourth estate is performing their jobs,once someone breaks a story like this they virtually have to give it some mention or worry about losing even more viewers.
from post 57
A - No, GovDelivery does not offer any email lists for free or for sale to its clients and does not provide any data mining services. - Clients are responsible for building their own contact lists using tools provided by GovDelivery or using other means for gathering contact information from interested citizens.
Ergo,the White House provided the email addys.
Found this 2007 press somewhat humorous - Goodmail Systems and GovDelivery
“...Participants will also learn best practices for enhancing public trust in email by using technology to proactively communicate information and policy to citizens.”
That “public trust” concept could use some work.
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http://www.goodmailsystems.com/news/press_releases/2007/press_release_20070619.php
“Conference for Government Agencies on Trust and Control in Government-to-Citizen Email to be Presented by Goodmail Systems and GovDelivery”
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jun 19, 2007 —
Goodmail Systems, Inc., creator of the CertifiedEmail service for trusted, assured email delivery, and GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions, today announced that they would co-sponsor a free conference for government agencies titled “Trust and Control: Emerging Trends in Digital Communication.”
The panel discussion will reveal best practices on building and maintaining public trust in email communication. Keynote speakers Richard Gingras, CEO and co-founder of Goodmail Systems, Inc. and Scott Burns, CEO and co-founder of GovDelivery will provide attendees with an overview of today’s trusted email services and offer practical tips for how to make government-to-citizen emails more effective.
Participants will also learn best practices for enhancing public trust in email by using technology to proactively communicate information and policy to citizens.
In addition to Gingras and Burns, three major government agencies will present case studies on how to effectively reach the public by email.
WHO: Richard Gingras, CEO and co-founder of Goodmail Systems Scott Burns, CEO and co-founder of GovDelivery.
Richard Gingras is an accomplished luminary with 25+ years experience in leading networking technology and content businesses. Before assuming the position of CEO at Goodmail, he previously ran the online service efforts at @Home, (which later became Excite@Home),including the broadband and narrowband portal divisions, and served as SVP and General Manager of the company’s consumer-focused product division, Excite Studios. In 1979, Gingras also created the first interactive set top-based news magazine in partnership with CBS and NBC. Scott Burns co-founded GovDelivery, Inc. in 2000 and has led the company to its current position as world leader in government-to-citizen email communication. Prior to GovDelivery, Burns was the Director of Marketing at SafeRent, Inc., and a consultant with McKinsey and Company. Burns has guided GovDelivery to its current position by consulting directly with the Company’s broad public sector client base to understand how GovDelivery’s unique, web-based platform, can meet government’s needs.
About GovDelivery
GovDelivery, Inc., headquartered in St. Paul, MN, is the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions. Its flagship product, GovDelivery Digital Subscription Management, uses a proprietary Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to provide organizations with fully-automated and on-demand communication with the public. Governments use GovDelivery to reach the public through e-mail, wireless alerts, and RSS. GovDelivery is used by more than one hundred public sector organizations worldwide including USA.gov, the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Departments of Labor, State, Agriculture, Transportation, and Commerce; U.K. Parliament; Texas Department of Health and Human Services; Orange County, CA; and Washington, D.C. GovDelivery is also used by transit authorities across the U.S., including the Tri-County Metropolitan District of Oregon (TriMet). For more information, please visit www.govdelivery.com.
About Goodmail Systems
Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of e-mail available that assures delivery of all opt-in e-mail messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in e-mail effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation’s top 10 email mailbox providers and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.”
They tax us to pay Obama’s data miner to cull emails from fishy@whitehouse.gov.
They tax us to pay Govdelivery, a firm that exists solely to service the state, to spam us with propaganda.
They tax us to pay the propaganda writers.
Are we on some kind of plantation? For how much longer?
Yep. Our money is being used for crony pay-offs.
But we already knew that.
as long as we take it and no longer?
Mr. Obama, you're no Harry Truman.
He's a lot like Clinton that way.....
.....Whenever you can blame somebody else, do so to keep yourself in the fight. Your supporters know they are expendable soldiers for the cause...
The last thing Captain Zero will do is to blame the deck chairs...
That is so wrong in so many ways I dare not even count...
“The fact that this private company SENT the spam e-mails does not answer the question of HOW it got addresses which came into the White House and were NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GATHERED. “
Exactly. And I find it hard to believe that the White House would have PAID to have sent ANY kind of correspondence, signed by Axelrod or any other WH “employee”, probably (though I’m not sure) on OFFICIAL letterhead, via ANY SERVICE PROVIDER.... WITHOUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT was being sent, to WHOM it was being sent, and WHERE the list of names of recipients originated from. It’s not done in ANY corporation I’ve ever worked for and certainly not by the White House.
Sounds to me like GOV Delivery did NOTHING that they weren’t PAID and ASKED to do by this Administration.
Unbelievable, isn’t it? We’re living in Obamanation now, and he’s just getting started.
BTW, welcome to Free Republic!
Just saw a report on Fox: WH says they contracted GovDelivery sometime between January 1, 2009 and Jan. 19, 2009... before the inauguration. The contract that HHS did with GovDelivery is dated 12-31-2008.... and over $1 million was allocated to GovDelivery on January 15, 2009. I’ll bet this is where the money came from to send out the emails...
How the hell can they make financial commitments before they are even officially in office?
Damn! I get angrier by the day.
Debbie Stabenow goes by her former husband Dennis Stabenow’s name. Dennis Stabenow’s age is listed from 56 to 60 years. There are two Zach/Zachary Stabenows listed in zabasearch.com. Zach/Zachary K. is 37 years old, and Zachary J. is 63 years old. My bet is that Zach is either Zach/Zachary J. who is the brother of Debbie’s former husband, Dennis, or he is Zach/Zachary K., the son of Dennis’ brother, Zachary J.. Also check www.intelius.com to verify.
Bottom line is it’s all in the family...that’s what family/friends are for, according to the late Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, who said “if you can’t help your family, who can you help?” And help and help and help. Just ask his son, the current mayor, Richard J. Daley, who it is said is pulling obama’s strings and running the show from Chicago, along with his brother, Bill Daley, according to police sources. All I can say is “you betcha.”
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