Editors 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). [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to the folks at The Guardian and their Activate 2010 conference I’ll be in the UK next week. The “official” Twitter hashtag I’ll use for updates during the week is #edemuk – I’ll use this for logistics and announce any spontaneous opportunities to connect. My big message all week will be Local Matters, Civility [...]
Update: Drafting guide from here. I had the honor of speaking to the national League of Women Voters conference in Atlanta last week. It was a great crowd. In the coming two months we will be developing the first draft of the Sunshine 2.0 guide for local Leagues (and anyone really including governments themselves) to [...]
Special Invite – Note the Pew Internet and American Life report author special Q and A discussion on the Locals Online community of practice. According to the just released Neighbors Online report from Pew Internet and American Life, 27% of American adult Internet users (or 22% of adults overall) use “digital tools to talk to [...]
I had the honor of being a “virtual” guest of Grassroots Grantmakers yesterday. Listen and watch the presentation. Or click through the slides-only further below. The audio alone is available in MP3 format (~90 minutes). If you are involved in local community building online or want to use these approaches and tools in your neighborhood, [...]
Update: Drafting guide from here. Please offer your comments on the blog or via our short survey. The other week, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released an excellent report on Government Online. When I left Minnesota state government in 1997 after launching our main portal in 1995, I left because the sense I [...]
Editor’s Note: Every few months our Community Information and Outreach Leaders with our Inclusive Social Media effort will share their lessons via and update on our Project Blog. This special outreach effort is funded by the Ford Foundation with additional contributions from the St. Paul Foundation for St. Paul efforts. This new digital inclusion to [...]
E-Democracy.org is heading to Transparency Camp in DC this weekend. Join us on Friday at the pre-conference “Local Caucus” we organized at James Hobans at 1 Dupont Circle fro 7:30 p.m.. Follow #TCamp2010 for real-time highlights via Twitter. Stay tuned for a blog post on the exciting DemocracyMap idea we will be working on here [...]
Our Neighbors Forum adaptation of our Issues Forums model is taking off. Neighborhoods next to our established forums are asking, “Hey, what about us!” New volunteers are stepping forward. The full story, especially our special Inclusive Social Media efforts in lower income, highly diverse/immigrant neighborhoods, is covered by a recent Twin Cities Daily Planet article. [...]
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