Microsoft influencing presidential elections!

As Slovak presidential elections are in Slovakia in less than 5 weeks we wanted to use this opportunity for something extraordinary. We had a brainstorming and which resulted into joint online project with with largest printed media publishing house Ringier (best selling tabloid). We agreed to build an online entry page for all, who want to be informed about everything about presidential candidates in a modern way. After this I think better headline would be "Microsoft contributing to better information about presidential candidates" :)

Result?

Starting this week Slovak internet users have the chance to visit new internet site with presidential candidates – http://www.prezident2009.sk/. Ringier provides all important information to Slovakian voters such as:

• actual preferences today and how they evolved,
• hot news,
• comparison of opinions on 6 selected topics,
• Facebook fan site plus multimedia content like video, pictures,
• and all necessary infos about candidates like CVs, up-to-date career, etc.

So where is the difference?

The most important thing from my company is that the whole site is build on Silverlight 2.0 technology and candidates photogallery in DeepZoom. These technologies allows to visitor out of the box work with content showed on website, for instance continuous fluent zooming of pictures or dynamic work with charts and much more.

Since Ringier is very popular on Slovak market we believe that this cooperation will help us with Silverlight (plugin) penetration among internet users and change perception of Microsoft as provider of innovative though easy to use technologies. On the other side Ringier is connected works with state-of-the art technology which offers them advantage compared with competitors.

Check out the site at http://www.prezident2009.sk/