Check out some of the images across our community and neighborhood Issues Forums courtesy of ShapeCollage.com. Can you tell that pet adoptions are hot in our Las Vegas, New Mexico forum as well as lost and found pets in our Twin Cities Neighbors Forums? Interesting, lost pets result in a number of new members. People [...]
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.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Issues Forum model is always evolving. While real names and civility remain central, over the last few years we’ve being going even more local – be that at the neighborhood level or in smaller rural towns. Now that we have 25 forums across 15 communities, our central support costs are now measurable and growing. [...]
E-Democracy.org is proposing a Minnesota version of the Sunlight Foundation’s Great American Hackathon on December 12th. No matter the civic-spirited code you write or open source projects you contribute to, this will be a chance to meet other programmers in Minnesota interested in online government transparency, the reuse of government data, online civic engagement etc. [...]
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