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. [...]
Join E-Democracy.Org Executive Director, Steven Clift in New York City June 27 – July 1 at Participation Camp and the Personal Democracy Forum. I will also be meeting with foundation contacts through out – so feel free to open a door for us! Personal Democracy Forum The big Personal Democracy Forum conference is coming up [...]
Tomorrow evening (Thursday, Apr. 2), I will be presenting on Citizen Media and Issues Forums (using a sub-set of the free webinar slides) in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Here is the announcement and the local Issues Forum currently in recruitment mode. Join us and spread the word. The other week, I spoke at the NewsOut conference [...]
A little known GroupServer feature on http://forums.e-democracy.org is that everyone who posts on our public forums generates their own personal web feed. You can find it by pressing “more” at the bottom of your public profile. (Which you can find by clicking on your name on the web view of your posts or on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Over the coming months we hope to engage designers in an effort to vastly improve the look and feel of E-Democracy.Org starting with our forums. We have a small grant that we using to add new features to GroupServer, the open source platform we use for our Issues Forums and some of that budget will [...]
My first encounter with TwitterMania, was at eDemocracy Camp, back in March. Since them, I’ve been slowly testing the waters and trying to figure out what this goofy tool is all about and whether or not its of any use to me – or to E-Democracy.Org. It wasn’t until I attended a Twitter Workshop at [...]
NOTE: Video contest deadline extended to September 1, 2008 E-Democracy.Org is leading the online outreach for the Minnesota Minute effort of the Bell Museum. As a complement to public service ads that will run on television, the Bell Museum invites you to submit your own Minnesota Minute (and become eligible for a prize). Visit http://minnesotaminute.org [...]
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