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Forum Manager Interviews – Audio

Update: We’ve added the Cook County Conversations interview with Jim Boyd below.
The other week with our community visits to Bemidji and Cass Lake, I sat down with our volunteer forum managers for one on one interviews.The audio is below.
These are part of our final evaluation for our Blandin Foundation Rural Voices initiative to help interested [...]

Celebrating in Bemidji and Cass Lake – Rural Voices Check-in

As we wind up the final activities in our Rural Voices effort supported by the Blandin Foundation we will be visiting our new Issues Forum communities to celebrate online participation efforts thus far and to gather lessons and input for what is next.

Issues Forums evolve over time. After initial start-up, they can benefit significantly from [...]

Good. Great. Fantastic. – Cass Lake Leech Lake Finds a Voice Online

Local volunteers recently launched the Cass Lake Leech Lake Issues Forum. It is the first of four new local online Issues Forums opening acrorss rural Minnesota communities as part of E-Democracy.Org’s network with the support of the Blandin Foundation. The Cass Lake area has a majority Native American population and is part of the Leech [...]

Knowledge Raiser – Watch Citizen Media and Online Engagement Webinar On-Demand

Update:  The webinar recordings are now available for free (although you still are encouraged to donate if you find them useful):

Local Citizen Media Slide Video with Audio -

Slides Only – Listen/Download Only in MP3

Issues Forums Slide Video with Audio –

Slides Only – Listen/Download Only in MP3

Each slightly less than an hour section stands [...]

Citizen Media and Online Engagement Webinar – Thu Feb 5 2009 – RSVP Now

E-Democracy.Org is hosting “webinar” on citizen media and online engagement in local communities.
This is the text from our wiki page (where you can RSVP and access links):
pages.e-democracy.org/Citizen_Media_and_Online_Engagement_Webinar

For the fifth in our series of Rural Voices outreach events, this live and interactive presentation will be “everywhere.”
Participate via telephone access for audio and use your computer to [...]

Join Minnesota Voices – Greater Minnesotans Building Community with Web 2.0

Do you blog? Or …
Do you contribute to Wikipedia?
Do you share photos on Flickr or upload videos to YouTube?
Do you host an online forum or e-mail group?
Do you gather links on Delicious?
Do you develop “Web 2.0″ software or websites?
Do you work for an online news site promoting user-generated content and citizen journalism?
Do you work online [...]

Sharing Photographs and Videos the E-Democratic Way

The summary:

Attach any size picture to your Issues Forum post via e-mail or the web. We do the rest – resize, present on web, etc.
Paste a link to a YouTube video in a post. We do the rest – the video player is displayed for all via your Issues Forum’s web view.

At E-Democracy.Org we believe [...]

Issues Forum Presentation Slides, Bemidji and Cass Lake Leech Lake Say Yes

Steve Kranz and I had a great time in Bemidji and Cass Lake – Leech Lake Indian Reservation last week. We had about 20 people total across our two Your Voice. Your Community presentations highlighting some citizen media trends and digging into online civic engagement with Issues Forums.
Below are our slides, and here is a [...]

Rural Voices Update – Your Voice. Your Community Online. Events in Bemidji and Cass Lake, Minnesota – 13-14 Aug 2008

Work on our Rural Voices project is in full swing with Steve Kranz from Winona joining our team. In addition to joining this event tour, Steve is assisting Fergus Falls with the launch of an Issues Forum and working to identify a southern Minnesota town for another Issues Forum. Efforts are underway for a [...]

Relaunch of Winona Online Democracy

Back in the early days of E-Democracy.Org, we partnered with some folks in Winona, Minnesota to help set up the first Local Issues Forum in our network, outside of the Twin Cities (Minnesota).
While, the folks of Winona Online Democracy did not always get the attention that our larger forums did in St. Paul and [...]

 

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