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 […]
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 […]
Local volunteers working to start up the online Chicago Region Civic Forum as part of the E-Democracy.Org network will be meeting over lunch with Board Chair, Steven Clift. If you’d like to join us at this open gathering, RSVP via our wiki at:
pages.e-democracy.org/Chicago
I spent the first part of this week sharing E-Democracy.Org’s story at the Personal Democracy Forum as well as challenging governments to put representative democracy and two-way engagement online (video).
Some of my big picture themes were picked up by the New York Times in an article, titled From Campaign 2.0 to Governing 2.0.
At the conference […]
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 […]
I quickly compiled this list of interesting topics, appearing in the various E-Democracy.Org forums. Thought I would share it here. These are all recent topics, that have been active on our site in the last 1-2 weeks.
Check to see if we have a Local Issues Forum in your area. Click here, for Latest Topics […]
On June 23-24, Steven Clift with E-Democracy.Org will be speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City.
I’d like to invite those interested in discussing the topic “Uniting Americans Online” on June 25, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. to
RSVP via our wiki: pages.e-democracy.org/Uniting_Americans_Online_discussion_in_New_York_City
The general theme is to discuss “local up” ideas for […]
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 minnesotaminute.org today.
If you […]
These video statements were collected by St. Paul E-Democracy volunteers, at the Rondo Community Outreach Library, as part of their State of the City collaboration with the Mayor’s office.
An online Issues Forum is about more than the technology necessary to host an online discussion. A successful E-Democracy.Org Issues Forum is based upon local volunteers working […]
Our work on our “Online Rural Voices” initiative is underway. Phase one, is identifying community blogs, citizen journalism projects, and other online citizen media projects in Greater Minnesota.
If you live in Greater Minnesota, we invite you to fill out our SHORT SURVEY. We’re using this survey to gather some data about how people in […]