I don’t know about you but I never have enough time in the morning to catch up on all the government transparency Web sites that I follow. But our staff has become really big on services like Netvibes which offer a great way to custom-build a Web page around the news and information you like to stay on top of using RSS feeds and widgets.

So the Sunlight communications team (thanks, Lizzie!)  has created just such a customized bird’s eye view of what’s happening with our projects and grantees. Sunlight’s Netvibes Universe is now available as a public collection of the RSS feeds and widgets created by Sunlight and our partners. Head over to Sunlight’s Universe (how epic, right?), to become Sunlight’s friend, to keep up with the latest news from the major players in the sphere of online government information or to cherry pick the feeds you want to follow. You can also find Sunlight’s presence on social networks, like Twitter and Facebook, and grab widgets from the Sunlight government transparency “ecosystem.”

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I love how our Labs takes a great idea and makes it even better. Yesterday we announced our latest project, Capitol Words and today, we have a new widget so you can display the congressional word of the day on your site. Get it here.

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Earlier this week we talked about all the cool new applications over at OpenCongress.org (which are really taking off), and today we’re delighted to tell you that MAPLight.org has produced some new widgets that allow you to track fundraising for over 1,500 congressional candidates. These widgets are perfect for blogs, social networking pages, and personal Web sites, and they are completely customizable according to the candidates you are interested in.

The congressional money race widgets follow MAPLight.org’s August release of presidential money race widgets that allow users to track funds raised by presidential candidates.

Sunlight’s proud that MAPLight.org is one of its signature grantees.

On a related note, remember you can help our Congresspedia editors ‘Wiki the Vote’ by reporting on the full record of every candidate running for Congress.

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