Steve Kranz and I had a great time in Bemidji and Cass Lake - Leech Lake Indian Reservation last week. We had about 20 people total across our two Your Voice. Your Community presentations highlighting some citizen media trends and digging into online civic engagement with Issues Forums.
Below are our slides, and here is a […]
Work on our Rural Voices project is in full swing with Steve Kranz from Winona joining our team. In addition to joining this event tour, Steve is assisting Fergus Falls with the launch of an Issues Forum and working to identify a southern Minnesota town for another Issues Forum. Efforts are underway for a […]
Over the coming months we hope to engage designers in an effort to vastly improve the look and feel of E-Democracy.Org starting with our forums.
We have a small grant that we using to add new features to GroupServer, the open source platform we use for our Issues Forums and some of that budget will be […]
Local volunteers working to start up the online Chicago Region Civic Forum as part of the E-Democracy.Org network will be meeting over lunch with Board Chair, Steven Clift. If you’d like to join us at this open gathering, RSVP via our wiki at:
pages.e-democracy.org/Chicago
I spent the first part of this week sharing E-Democracy.Org’s story at the Personal Democracy Forum as well as challenging governments to put representative democracy and two-way engagement online (video).
Some of my big picture themes were picked up by the New York Times in an article, titled From Campaign 2.0 to Governing 2.0.
At the conference […]
Back in the early days of E-Democracy.Org, we partnered with some folks in Winona, Minnesota to help set up the first Local Issues Forum in our network, outside of the Twin Cities (Minnesota).
While, the folks of Winona Online Democracy did not always get the attention that our larger forums did in St. Paul and […]
My first encounter with TwitterMania, was at eDemocracy Camp, back in March. Since them, I’ve been slowly testing the waters and trying to figure out what this goofy tool is all about and whether or not its of any use to me - or to E-Democracy.Org.
It wasn’t until I attended a Twitter Workshop at Minnebar […]
On June 23-24, Steven Clift with E-Democracy.Org will be speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City.
I’d like to invite those interested in discussing the topic “Uniting Americans Online” on June 25, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. to
RSVP via our wiki: pages.e-democracy.org/Uniting_Americans_Online_discussion_in_New_York_City
The general theme is to discuss “local up” ideas for […]
A couple of years ago, I attended the Second (2005) Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice at Standford University. Of all the conferences I’ve been to in the last few years, this was the most academic of them all - and I loved it. I really enjoyed the mix of academic papers and […]
NOTE: Video contest deadline extended to September 1, 2008
E-Democracy.Org is leading the online outreach for the Minnesota Minute effort of the Bell Museum.
As a complement to public service ads that will run on television, the Bell Museum invites you to submit your own Minnesota Minute (and become eligible for a prize). Visit minnesotaminute.org today.
If you […]