Discuss report on Twitter #pewCivic - Discuss report on Facebook Discuss report on LinkedIn - Join E-Democracy’s Project Group The new must-read Civic Engagement in the Digital Age study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project makes it clear to me: Those who already show up in political life continue to dominate online – it [...]
Join our 2013 “BeNeighbors” Community Outreach Team! – APPLY BY MAY 8! We are deepening our Knight grant-funded inclusion campaign to grow our St. Paul forums with the greatest diversity possible to over 10,000 members. We’re also planning fundraising to include Minneapolis and other communities in future years. Do you care passionately about building inclusive community? [...]
Join us on April 10 at 1:45 p.m. at our session at the Minnesota Non-Profit Technology and Communications Conference. It is the day before our Happy Hour after the opening of the national non-profit technology conference. Inclusive Online Engagement: Diverse Voices, Immigrant Integration and Open Local Communities Let’s get real about inclusive online community engagement. [...]
Minnesota’s non-profit tech community (they hang out here) is mixing it up with #nptech leaders from around the United States and beyond in our home base of Minneapolis/St. Paul. We’ve organized a happy hour for folks from the Twin Cities interested in digital engagement and inclusion to mix it up with national folks involved with [...]
Last summer Dan Gordon of our summer outreach team wrote this article on BeNeighbors/E-Democracy for La Prensa. Below is the article in Spanish (on La Prensa) and below also in English. Note our BeNeighbors information page in Spanish. On a related note, we seek Spanish speaking volunteers as well as candidates for our current Latino [...]
MAR 19 UPDATE: Applications are coming in, but we need your help to spread the word in particular in the Latino and African-American communities. Be an Inclusive Engagement Leader – Apply Now We believe in building strong, inclusive and connected neighborhoods. This can happen in many ways like having great public spaces such [...]
Attend the next Volunteer Orientation/Training on Wed. March 13, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and you can be a community builder too! (Or April 18th or May 16th, same time and place.) E-Democracy is launching a new Volunteer Program. For years, we’ve relied heavily on committed volunteers to successfully build the neighbors and issues forums. [...]
E-Democracy.org was honored to assist the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge road show on Open Government in St. Paul. Below is the video. The deadline for submissions is March 18. They first launched with an “inspirations” phase in which Steven Clift with E-Democracy made a number of contributions. For the event we had an impressive RSVP list and about [...]
E-Democracy was honored to be part of the Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar in 2013. This is a mobile phone video tour with our Executive Director Steven Clift. It was a living version of our 2012 St. Paul outreach year in review blog post. Handouts: Pictures in the Video Forum Stories St. Paul Year One [...]
This came together at the last minute as we already have over a dozen RSVPs. Join us this Thursday evening in Los Angeles. On a related, note I’ll (Steven Clift) be stopping by Metamorphosis project at USC before hand. Check out their MetaConnects resources and the Alhambra Source action-research journalism project they host. Neighbors Online: [...]
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