Give to the Max Day was a big success. We’ve doubled our number of donors to over 150 total on GiveMN.org, with 76 donors contributing on or near Give to the Max Day. We raised $2,215 which earned our local “Leader’s Challenge” match of $1,000. That means we now have $3,215 in 2012 to support [...]
Cross posted from CityCampMN. E-Democracy.org as a co-host of this event and Steven Clift was the “convener.” We will have a more detailed review of CityCampMN soon. For now, here are some news articles, blog posts and other items. The City Camp “Unconference”: Rewiring the System [...]
Over 40 donors giving over $1300 US can’t be wrong – join them now through Midnight Central: DONATE on Nov. 16 starting at midnight Central time U.S. Donations from E-Democracy.org supporters from the world accepted and encouraged! The third annual Give to the Max Day is Wednesday, November 16. More than 42,000 donors logged [...]
The other month I had the honor to participate at the Aspen Institute’s Forum on Communication and Society. One morning they stuck me in front of the camera … Steven Clift: When you roll up your sleeves you can shape democracy from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Some of my comments were mixed into this great [...]
Here is a secret – politicians don’t really care about opinions expressed online … that is unless they are from their actual voters. Then watch out, because then you will see real democratic change in action. As we’ve added neighborhood level engagement with “community life” exchange to our classic city-wide online town halls, we’ve seen [...]
In May 2011 our updated forum rules went into effect. How are they working for you so far? While have not had one complaint about a new rule or rule change, we’d like hear of any. Also, there are the rules and there is implementation of these rules by our volunteer forum managers. If you [...]
Whether it is Somali Independence Day in Minneapolis (video), Rondo Days, or the CHAT Hmong arts festival in St. Paul, our new outreach team will be in the field across the community this summer. Our goal is to recruit at least 1,000 new participants across our Twin Cities online neighborhood forums (15 forums open [...]
The Federal Communication Commission with the Knight Foundation have put up a very interesting challenge called Apps for Communities. Download GroupServer – We’ve put up GroupServer.org as the “app” for this competition. It is designed for technology hosts. End-users engage the app via the web and e-mail. With certain customizations that we use and most [...]
As our summer of Inclusive Social Media outreach gets underway across St. Paul and Minneapolis, we’ve put together a presentation introducing “Neighbors Forums.” Neighbors Forums The slides are detailed so you can skim or go in-depth. Additional download options are at the bottom of this post. Invite us to present in-person in your neighborhood. Our [...]
Check out some of the images across our community and neighborhood Issues Forums courtesy of ShapeCollage.com. Can you tell that pet adoptions are hot in our Las Vegas, New Mexico forum as well as lost and found pets in our Twin Cities Neighbors Forums? Interesting, lost pets result in a number of new members. People [...]
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