Watch the webinar or listen to the full event in MP3 format. See the source blog post from the webinar host Griff Wigley for additional details. Slides used by Steven Clift, E-Democracy.org, Executive Director: Social Media: Local Government Use View more presentations from Steven Clift. CROSS-POSTED: By Griff Wigley Nov. 1 Webinar – Social media [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
The other day I had the privilege of participating in a debate on BBC Radio 4′s You and Your’s program about anonymity in online commenting. Have a listen. At the Guardian’s Active conference I asked, why major online news sites are so content with empowering the angriest people in society with the design of their [...]
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 [...]
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