How would The White House use Basecamp to reform Healthcare?
November 4th, 2009 12:38pm in 37signals, basecamp, healthcare, healthcare reform, obama, the white house
I'm a big fan of Basecamp from 37signals (and Highrise) and use it all the time in managing projects that Ten Seven is involved with. The other day, I made a comment on Twitter about the extended wars that the USA is waging overseas which elicited a response from @ARTCRANK (whom I know IRL) teasing me that if only the US Government would use Basecamp, things would be so much easier:
@ten7 If US gov't. was running Basecamp, we'd be out of Iraq & Afghanistan, have healthcare reform and a peace in the mid-east, right?
Well, I had to chuckle at that. Basecamp is a great tool for smaller teams and smallish projects, at least compared with something like Healthcare reform! What would that look like? So I created a free account, got some content from WhiteHouse.gov, created a few faux users, todo's, milestones, a writeboard, changed the color scheme (and added a logo) and took some screenshots. They're up on Flickr as a set of photos, in addition to this embedded slideshow:
Thoughts? What would other major projects, like Mid East peace, look like?