I am currently the Forum Manager for the E-Democracy.Org project in Roseville, Minnesota (The Roseville Issues Forum). Recently, someone posted a short announcement about another forum that opened in a neighboring community. I took a look and decided to write a short comparison of the projects, which I posted to the Roseville Issues Forum. I […]
Last night I was hanging out with a billionare shooting the breeze about the agenda-setting power of local online communities. OK, Sergey Brin was speaking on stage and I was in the front row, but I did talk with a number of folks from Google and others including one of founders of eGroups (now YahooGroups).
Last […]
Our friends in New Zealand, including Dan Randow with OnlineGroups.Net, held a public meeting on the potential of a regional public Issues Forum for the Canterbury region which includes Christchurch.
A couple of years ago I met with a room full of interested citizens on a cold July winter Sunday at one of their libraries. This […]
The E-Democracy.Org project blog has been fairly active for about 6 weeks now. When Steve Clift set it up, I was a little bit skeptical about how useful it would be and whether or not it would be worth the time. It took me several weeks to post my first entry, but was hooked almost […]
As E-Democracy.Org grows we are exploring the launch of a new project blog.
It will go live in the coming weeks as we tweak its settings and theme.
Each local Issues Forum team as well as leaders of various projects will have the opportunity to share details on their efforts via this multi-editor blog.
Welcome.
Steven Clift
Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org