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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Guardian comment: ‘Dear PM, please be more daring with e-democracy’
For our regular readers (nice to have you along, by the way!), there may not be anything particularly new here but this piece by Michael Cross in the Guardian is well worth a read, partly because it’s a nice summation … Continue reading
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ABC News and Facebook unite to cover US elections
Quick story I didn’t want to let pass: Facebook is linking up with ABC News in a partnership that will allow users to tap into the network’s political coverage. Three reasons I found this particularly interesting: The enlightened thinking from … Continue reading
Latest newsletter now available
The November ’07 edition of the (supposedly) monthly Delib newsletter was sent out on Monday and is available to read online at http://www.delib.co.uk/newsletter/november07. If you enjoyed that hearty dose of e-democracy goodness and would like to get the e-newsletter delivered … Continue reading
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BBC news on online marketing
Interesting article on the BBC News site about the need for small businesses to get online and get marketing their sites. Not an e-democracy article as such, but the analogy about the need for online marketing is excellent, and very … Continue reading
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Videocracy
Carrying on my obsession with putting -ocracy at the end of words to make clever sounding blog posts, here’s a quick insight into how video’s playing an important part in US politics. A new site www.10questions.com has recently launched allowing … Continue reading
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Collateral catch-up
–> Posted by Ben. We’ve spent a lot of the last year making, doing and managing stuff — and, nice as that is, it’s meant that the information about what we do has fallen a bit behind the reality. … Continue reading
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Face-ocracy
There’s obviously been a lot of hype about Facebook recently, with brands hailing it as the future of advertising and geeks hailing it as the future of the world. To jump on the bandwagon, I’d like to hail it as … Continue reading
Technologies for Participation
Spent yesterday at the Consultation Institute‘s ‘Technologies for Participation’ conference in Birmingham, and what a marvellous day out it was. I’ve spoken at a good few Consultation Institute events over the past year or two, and this was their first … Continue reading
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Can we ever have a real debate?
It’s taken as a given over here, or at least should be, that when a politician says ‘we need a national debate on X’, generally nothing of the sort happens. Perhaps as a result, we often look to the USA … Continue reading
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Blogging as consultation
As mentioned before on this blog, I wrote an article for Iain Dale’s Guide to Political Blogging on using blogs as consultation platforms. Whilst the idea of online discussion seems to have taken root in the government sphere, people have … Continue reading