Follow Quebec provincial elections with EspaceCanoe

By Heri Feb 22nd 2007 in Design

EspaceCanoe, a social networking website, has opened a new section for the 2007 provincial elections. See for example the profile of Jean Lapierre. The website is very web2.0ish, with tagging, videos, blogs and bright pastel colors. They didn’t even forget the ‘beta’ near the logo. You have to go with the times, I guess.

The service is actually simple, easy to use and promising and there are a lot of incitatives for politicians and citizens to participate. Currently, we can’t see much in the ‘social’ but since it just opened, we have to yet to see how the website deals with user interaction. Montreal Tech Watch won’t cover the elections, as I believe there will be many bloggers out there who will be doing this, but you might go to Michelle Leblanc‘s blog, who is involved in the project.

EspaceCanoe is a canoe service, which belongs to Quebecor Media. That also means there will be a lot of content avalaible, such as videos from TVA

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