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Diverse Community Outreach Leaders – We’re Hiring!

Special Update: We created a new position available for Latino outreach in St. Paul – now through Dec. 15, 2011. Apply as instructed below by September 15. This position will focus primarily on the West Side of St. Paul.   Are you excited? We are. With the support of four foundations, including year two funding [...]

Stand Up for Your Neighborhood – Request a New Neighbors Forum Today

Now is the time gather thousands more across St. Paul and Minneapolis (and beyond) like you who want to connect two-way with their neighbors and build strong vibrant communities. From schools and crime to parks and “free stuff,” it is time to unleash the power of neighbor to neighbor communication online. Today E-Democracy.org hosts over [...]

24 Hours – The real deal on neighborhood and community Issues Forums

While our marketing lacks flash, we have a surplus of substance. We’ve simplified the main page for our Christchurch, New Zealand Neighbours.cc collection of neighbours forums. We’ve also gathered testimonials from members and Forum Managers about the value they receive and we now have a simple list of what actually happens across our forums (one [...]

From Crisis Response to Community Recovery – Neighbours.cc for Christchurch, Stories from Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

As the role of social media generates headlines from Cairo to Christchurch, I have some bad news for you. The “Like” culture of Facebook is extremely lightweight when it comes to creating the deep bonds required for sustained local community building. The 140 character exchanges on Twitter create a surface sense among the most extroverted [...]

Four Frogtown Lessons – Trust, Usability, Diversity, Potential – By Boa Lee – Community Outreach and Information Leader

Editors Note: This Inclusive Social Media update is from Boa Lee, our Community Outreach and Information Leader focused on Frogtown. By Boa Lee, Community Outreach and Information Leader, Greater Frogtown Neighbors Forum This year, E-Democracy intensified outreach to two Twin Cities neighborhoods – Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis and Frogtown in St. Paul. This blog post marks [...]

Meet Your Neighbors Online Week, UK Neighbourhoods Online Study, Neighborly

A three-in-one post with neighborly goodness … MeetYourNeighborsOnline.com Week Did you you know 7% of American adult Internet users are members of neighborhood e-mail lists or forums? That is over 10 million people. That’s great, but why not 20 million? The Locals Online community practice we host is exploring a “Meet Your Neighbors Online Week.”  [...]

Inclusion Update – The Technology of E-Democracy and Community Organizing – By Boa Lee, Frogtown Outreach

Editors Note: This Inclusive Social Media update is from Boa Lee, our Community Outreach and Information Leader focused on Frogtown. By Boa Lee, Community Outreach and Information Leader, Greater Frogtown Neighbors Forum A post appeared on the Minneapolis citywide issues forum in mid-March 2009. The poster, Jay Clark, the director of the Minnesota Center for [...]

Neighbors Online Video, London Networked Neighbours and CityCamp Unconferences

Here is a video of most of my presentation at the Networked Neighbourhoods event in London the other month. I start on the third minute. Unfortunately my FlipCam filled up so the rest of the even. Also see the blog recaps by Networked Neighbourhoods, and Kevin Harris. This was part of my UK trip in [...]

Inclusion Update – Cedar Riverside – Dealing with Distrust Generated from Online Attacks Elsewhere on the Internet – By Julia Opoti

Editor’s Note: This Inclusive Social Media update is from Julia Opoti (pictured on right), our Community Outreach and Information Leader focused on Cedar Riverside. In related news, we’ve been experimenting with Facebook advertising and now in addition to the 275 full forum members we now have close to 750 followers on Facebook (many younger residents). [...]

Print Outreach Resources for Inclusion Online – Kill Some Trees

We’ve created a new section on our site with links to all of the print materials we are generating in our Inclusive Social Media effort promoting neighbor Issues Forum for all. Here is the text of that page as of today. 1. General Brochure – Meet Your Neighbors Online! Adapt this two-page trifold brochure to [...]

 

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