See link to podcast interview at bottom of post.
After an early start today, I was off to Bristol. In Bristol, I spend time catching up with a friend and colleague, Carol Hayward. About noon, Carol and I spoke to a small group of council staff and partners about the concepts of Issues Forums and E-Democracy, […]
Update from the road. Caution, this is a somewhat strained effort to justify the “work” connection of my relaxing day in Brighton on a beautiful autumn afternoon..
I had a something of a quiet Sunday, before the hectic of the week ahead. The big excitement was watching, with Dan Jellinek and his two children, a […]
One of the best parts of my job, working for E-Democracy.Org, is the opportunity to visit our colleagues and volunteers around the county and the world. This week, I’m in the UK visiting with folks involved in E-Democracy.Org projects or interested in starting one. I’m going to do my best to practice what I teach, […]
Well, as of tomorrow, I’m on the road again. I’ll be in the UK for 8 days for the “e-Democracy 07” conference and other meetings, followed up by a short visit to Scottsdale, Arizona - where I’m co-presenting a full day workshop called “Using Online Tools to Support Public Participation.”
As usual, I’m always eager to […]
Tim Erickson will be visiting the UK in early November to check in with our growing network of council-wide and neighbourhood level Issues Forums. This includes a pre-conference event tied to Headstar’s E-Democracy 07 conference on November 8. Details were posted to our Liftoff online group. Liftoff is where you join if you are interested […]
Transparency Alert - Read on for the inside scoop on what’s next with E-Democracy.Org.
The E-Democracy.Org Board is very very busy.
First we adopted our new strategic plan and now we have a new one year budget. Thus begins the exciting transition from an all-volunteer organization to one that is proudly volunteer-based with a small core […]
Update: We sent in 11 directly and were partners in a couple other proposals.
E-Democracy.Org plans to submit a number of audacious million dollar ideas to the next round of the Knight News Challenge. First round submissions are due October 15.
We are drafting our ideas publicly via our wiki here:
pages.e-democracy.org/Knight_News_Challenge_2007_drafting
Many of these […]
The Canterbury Public Issues Forum membership has skyrocketed past 200. Forum Manager Dan Randow is doing a super job and has introduced a new and simple idea to the Issues Forum toolkit - a guest speaker schedule. The regular guest speakers, including candidates for Christchurch mayor have livened up the forum and attracted new participants […]
Continuing our strategic plan conversation …
E-Democracy.Org’s humble beginnings started with the world’s first election information website in 1994 focused on Minnesota. We hosted content from everyone - candidates, government, media, the League of Women Voters. We organized an online candidate debate and when the election was over people in our MN-POLITICS e-mail forum kept talking. […]
As promised, today we start a series of blog posts on specific sections of our strategic plan.
Issues Forums are our number one priority. Our many-to-many model works. It has evolved over a decade of trial and error. The Achilles heal with this model is that it actually takes work up front, the technology is only […]