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Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern

November 10, 2008

As soon as Barack Obama was elected President, in part of the strength of a brilliant online campaign, the blogosphere offered up its ideas on how he could use the Internet to govern, too. This round-up of 50 ideas for e-government offer an enduring source of inspiration for policy-makers in America and beyond.

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Research and writing

September 19, 2008

I have written on technology issues for the Toronto Star, Business 2.0 magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, CBC radio (PDF) and the Vancouver Sun (for which I was a columnist) . Selected clippings and coverage Trying to build an online community? Don’t get tangled in a Web (PDF) The Globe and Mail, March 3, [...]

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OPML for your enjoyment

February 7, 2007

Find out what an OPML file is, and how you might use it.

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Tidying tags (and cars?)

May 28, 2006

When a story titled Confession: I’m a car slob popped up in the RSS feed I use to track who’s linking to me, I figured that some recent passenger had decided to out me to the world. Turns out that Beth Kanter has identified the correlation between untidy cars and untidy tags: like me, she [...]

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Alex 2.0: Now with extra civic-mindedness

March 8, 2006

Yippee! Today Corante launched its new Civic Minded blog on Internet politics, e-democracy and online engagement. This is a little project I cooked up with co-conspirators Steve Clift, Marnie Webb and Stephen Coleman. I’m thrilled to be working with such a great team, and really looking forward to what we cook up. Come on over [...]

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10 ways to keep online dialogue on topic

November 18, 2005

I’ve spent the past two days at a Ohio State for a conference on Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation, which has been a terrifically productive gathering. One session consisted of an interesting conversation about how to structure online deliberation in a way that promotes civil dialogue. We agreed that one key challenge was simply [...]

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Community goes corporate

October 7, 2005

Boyd Neil of Hill & Knowlton has written a very kind and thought-provoking post in response to the launch of Social Signal. Boyd’s observation is that corporate communicators have a lot to learn from social movements and community activists about how to use the Internet as a tool for bottom-up community engagement and marketing campaigns. [...]

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Introducing Social Signal: collaboration for communities

October 6, 2005

I’m delighted to announce the launch of Social Signal. Social Signal’s goal is to support online communities and distributed collaboration networks — networks of communities that share content and relationships by using the latest generation of web tools. This practice builds on my consulting, research and writing in the fields of online community, public participation, [...]

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National Conversation now online

September 14, 2005

Politics Online has launched theNational Conversation project, which aims at engaging Americans in dialogue about major national issues (in the first instance, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina). I like the effort to encourage multimedia contributions, and to allow people to simply “agree or disagree” with key statements. But this seems like a project that would be [...]

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From AdvocacyDev

July 13, 2005

Today is the last day of AdvocacyDev II, a gathering of people using technology to support nonprofit and social change work. As promised by Mark Surman, it’s been a truly mind-blowing experience. A big part of what’s amazing is the event organizing and facilitation methodology used by Katrin and Gunner of Aspiration, who organized the [...]

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e-Democracy skills training

June 25, 2005

I was part of a break-out group discussion today on making online deliberation tools accessible. We discussed three facets of this challenge: tool design, user training, and motivating participation. Our conversation began and ended with user training issues, becuase that’s what we came back to throughout our conversation. The question of motivating participation was simply [...]

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