Up in northern Minnesota along the Gunflint Trail a major forest fire is slowly coming under control. A community network and citizen media initiative called Boreal Access is keeping people up-to-date online and aggregating a number of the local blogs. How do we learn from this effort and small town projects like Northfield.Org and Locally [...]
In the last year, we’ve added three new crucial Board members. Anne Carroll, a public involvement and strategic planning consultant and elected school board member in St. Paul joined us about a year ago. Anne is leading us through the final stages of some important strategic planning and keeps us on task to say it [...]
Oh, the days when we had a donated infrastructure, no expenses and were all volunteer. Everything was so simple. Actually, then we’d be stuck in only a couple communities and not now spread across ten communities in three countries. There is something to be said for building a real foundation for effective citizen participation in [...]
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