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 […]
I quickly compiled this list of interesting topics, appearing in the various E-Democracy.Org forums. Thought I would share it here. These are all recent topics, that have been active on our site in the last 1-2 weeks.
Check to see if we have a Local Issues Forum in your area. Click here, for Latest Topics […]
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 […]
Scott Aiken’s one of the founders of E-Democracy.Org (with Mick Souder, Steven Clift, and Scott Fritchie) reports some exciting news from his Michigan 2.0 blog:
E-Democracy & Michigan
… the Board at the Birmingham Community House agreed to invest in a partnership with e-democracy.org to develop an Online Issues Forum for Birmingham / Bloomfield Hills. The Online […]
Hey all, I’ll be interviewed live online next week by David Witzel with PolicyCommon.Org and Forum One Communications.
If you have any questions on the topic of “Building Town Halls Online” or e-democracy in general, send them in now.
Here is the text of the announcement from LIVE Interviews Online:
Interview with Steven Clift on Building Town […]