After months of extensive participant input including blog comments and an online survey, Forum Manager and volunteer consultation, and Board deliberation, the final version of our updated rules (terms of service) were adopted by the Board on April 26, 2011. The major changes include: Setting Better Expectations – We added text throughout to clarify [...]
Every few years, our Board seeks input on rules changes and reflects on how they have worked in practice so they can be improved. Online Survey (NOW CLOSED) – Read the proposed rules and comment section by section. Or read the full draft. The rules govern participation on our Issues Forums and guide our growing [...]
From Mick Souder, E-Democracy.org co-founder, Board member and Rules Committee Chair: Greetings, Every few years E-Democracy.org reviews the rules we ask our forum participants to abide by. We are currently collecting input for a rules review we have scheduled to complete by the end of this year. We invite our forum participants and moderators to [...]
GiveMN.org fundraiser nets more than $3,000 for E-Democracy.org E-Democracy.org was one of dozens of non-profit organizations that participated in the GiveMN.Org “Give to the Max” fundraising event in November 2009 that provided. About 50 people from around the world donated to E-Democracy during the day-long event, raising more than $3,000. The funds will largely be [...]
Sep. 5 Update: The draft outline is now version 1.4. DC “national” input meeting is on for Thursday, Sept. 10 – RSVP to: [Email address: clift #AT# e-democracy.org - replace #AT# with @ ] – Future MN gathering planned. Are you ready for what’s next? Help us build it. If you could engage at [...]
As a scrappy non-profit we tend to miss things like anniversaries. But I did some math and realized we are in our 15th year of online civic goodness. Wow. We tend to celebrate things like opening a new forum (8 in the last year) or increasing the number of participants in our existing forums. It [...]
The E-Democracy.Org Board adopted a final “Privacy and Public Life Policy” to guide our participants in their participation. Because our Issues Forums are fundamentally about public life, we’ve avoided collecting detailed personal information other than name, city, and e-mail. (St. Paul does collect more information before someone can post.) Now that we’ve added an e-newsletter, [...]
The summary: Attach any size picture to your Issues Forum post via e-mail or the web. We do the rest – resize, present on web, etc. Paste a link to a YouTube video in a post. We do the rest – the video player is displayed for all via your Issues Forum’s web view. At [...]
(NOTE: This position has been filled. – posted April 16, 2008) Last week, E-Democracy.Org’s Board approved an extended consulting contract with Tim Erickson to serve as our paid Program Director and to coordinate our grant funded Rural Voices and Neighborhood Forum projects. While Tim has been paid for small projects in the past, this is [...]
I am excited to announce that Joanne Caddy has joined the E-Democracy.Org Board. She is participating strictly as an individual, but in public engagement circles many know her as the lead editor for the OECD’s Citizens as Partners guide early this decade. Exploring public participation the world over is Joanne Caddy’s passion and profession. Her [...]
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