Over the last weeks I finally found the time to put together a video outlining our eMeetings using the video footage we collected during our community workshops for the Routt County 2030 project.
Today I was invited to host a webinar for the EBM Tools Network talking about our civic engagement work. I boiled down the longer presentation I usually give to leave room for a very interesting Q&A session afterwards.
Yahoo just added a community suggestion board feature on its Localsite for two California cities where citizens can post and deliberate about local issues. People rate the suggestions, comment on them, subscribe to posts about particular issues and spread the word by printing flyers, adding events and forwarding posts to neighbors.
The Orton Family Foundation just released a RFP to help them build their Community Almanac - an online mapping platform that helps communities to capture their assets or heart&soul.
My colleagues at Zebralog in Berlin have recently released a great video clip showcasing the online dialogue they hosted about the reuse of Flughafen Tempelhof, formerly Berlin's biggest inner city airport. It shows the on-site workshops they organized which accompanied the online discussion to inform and educate participants. The end of the clip demonstrates the importance of public kiosks to reach a less tech-savvy crowd and include their opinions into online processes.
My presentation at this years CommunityMatters conference, end of October in Burlington, VT. The presentation was giving a quick round-up of the paradigm shift happening in the realm of GIS/Mapping and setting the stage for the panel discussion that followed.
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The CommunityMatters07 conference in Burlington, VT is over and we are back in Denver. Looking back, it was a successful conference and the Open Space session on Day 2 was a great way to discuss issues that couldn't be addressed during the presentations on Day 1 and to learn from the diverse group of participants.
During the CommunityMatters conference in Burlington Vermont end of October, theOrton Family Foundation namedMichael Wood-Lewis winner of the 2007 Innovator in Place Award. Michaelhosts and facilitates Front Porch Forum, a free online neighborhood forum based in Burlington, VT.
From the official press release:
A while back I started using Jott.com, a voice to email service to update my personal todo list from my phone. I was amazed about how accurate most of the calls are transcribed and kept watching future development closely.
Just recently, they introduced Jott the Vote™, a free and politically nonpartisanservice that allows anyone with a phone to send a jott email messagedirectly to a presidential campaign.
