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 […]
Its been a crazy couple of days in the Minneapolis Issues Forum, with (by my count) 111 different individuals posting a total of 203 messages over the course of three days. On election day (Nov. 7th) there were 79 posts! While, we don’t have any official record, this is by far the most active day […]
In October, E-Democracy.Org (with the support of the Blandin Foundation) hosted an online gubernatorial debate, which in turn led to our Voter Voices initiative.
Weeks after the online debate, the Voter Voices project continues to generate BUZZ on the internet. Today, I found one of my own contributions to the Voter Voices project being linked […]
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 […]
The Minnesota Gubernatorial E-Debate is a great success. While the candidates are done with their responses, this “on-demand” debate will be promoted through the election in November. At the Blandin Broadband conference I had a chance to talk with those who followed the e-debate via e-mail and the feedback has quite encouraging. In short, […]
I had very interesting experience this morning as I was browsing through the Roseville Issues Forum and ran accross the following message, Tax payer cost of this forum. Is it worth it?
“this coming monday night the roseville city council will be taking a vote to spend $6000 of our taxpayer dollars to continue this e-democracy/roseville […]
I was just taking a quick scan of the Blog-O-Sphere to see what is being said about the E-Democracy.Org - E-Debate.
At Designing For Civil Society David Wilcox had the following comments:
Political candidates once needed skills in dealing with hecklers … then reporters and TV cameras. Now it’s citizen’s media. Steven Clift, who has been promoting […]
As part of the E-Democracy.Org 2006 Gubernatorial E-Debate, we’re encouraging citizens to upload their own election related content to free web sites like Flickr (mnpolitics) and YouTube (mnpolitics). We’d love to see folks get creative in expressing their candidate or issues preferences/opinions, using these free services - while “tagging” their content “mn06,” “mnpolitics,” or “minnesota […]
I just got this message from E-Democracy.Org volunteer, David Stein:
MyBallot goes national !!!
I’ve wanted to say that for quite some time. As of right now, www.myballot.net covers the entire state of Florida for eight state wide offices (over 400 candidates). For four years, MyBallot has been a one state show – and now […]
What do Minnesota and Florida have in common? Their ballot and polling place data from their Secretary of State’s allow us to offer easy access to who in ony ballot and where do you vote. Thank you Minnesota and Florida.
Launched in 2002 by volunteer David Stein (thank you!), MyBallot.Net 2006 is now open with […]