The Issues Forum model is always evolving. While real names and civility remain central, over the last few years we’ve being going even more local – be that at the neighborhood level or in smaller rural towns. Now that we have 25 forums across 15 communities, our central support costs are now measurable and growing. [...]
Over the last week, we’ve been in the field building socially inclusive online neighborhood networks AKA “Issues Forums.” Frogtown, St. Paul, Minnesota Last Wednesday, the volunteers of start-up team and local district council staff met at the Hmongtown Marketplace over lunch to discuss the next phase of bringing the Greater Frogtown Neighbors Forum to life. [...]
E-Democracy.org is proposing a Minnesota version of the Sunlight Foundation’s Great American Hackathon on December 12th. No matter the civic-spirited code you write or open source projects you contribute to, this will be a chance to meet other programmers in Minnesota interested in online government transparency, the reuse of government data, online civic engagement etc. [...]
In conjunction with the Northeast Beat social network on Ning, volunteer Dan Haugen is leading an effort to create our first large multi-neighborhood Issues Forum – NE Minneapolis Neighbors Forum. While our first set of neighborhood forums serve smaller one or two “official” city neighborhood areas, this area covers at least 13 neighborhoods. (Although, the [...]
When someone you know or a neighbor is a victim of crime, particularly violent crime, it hits home. In my own neighborhood Issues Forum covering Standish and Ericsson in Minneapolis where we have close to 10% of households interacting daily, Erik Mitchell shared: All, I regret to report that my [Erik Mitchell] wife, Jenny, was [...]
What can you do when you have 300+ neighbors gathered everyday via a local Issues Forum? Consult them. Below is letter from Sam Newberg – both a Standish Ericssson Neighbors Forum member and a member of the Minnehaha-Hiawatha Corridor Community Advisory Committee asking participants to provide input into county government led community investment project. I’ve [...]
Everyone connected with their neighbors for participation and community. Here is how we do it. Thanks to support from the Minneapolis Foundation’s MSNet Fund, we’ve been methodically building a base for an online neighbors forum in this extremely diverse community. With approximately 7,500 residents concentrated in apartment complexes not far from the University of Minnesota’s [...]
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 http://minnesotaminute.org [...]
photo by ebrandt78 Given that E-Democracy.Org is based in Minneapolis and many of our board members and volunteers are quite familiar with the I-35W bridge that spans the Mississippi – its safe to say that this tragedy has hit us pretty hard. Several of our volunteers and their families (including both Steve and myself) are [...]
We’ve received word that the MSNet fund advisory committee is now reviewing our grant proposal and preparing some follow-up questions. Please help us prepare for those questions by taking a look yourself. See the grant application as well as the slides link from here: http://e-democracy.org/nf Send your feedback to: neighbors [Email address: neighbors #AT# e-democracy.org [...]
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