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Archive for October, 2008

Delib join PEP-NET

Posted by MichaelaD on Oct 30 2008 | Delib news and events, Good examples

After finally getting an errant fax machine to work Delib have become the newest member of PEP-NET! PEP-NET offer an online forum for European-wide e-democracy stakeholders to share ideas, disseminate best practice, and generally learn more about all the different e-participation projects and research that is going on. Its all very well me describing it, but they do a much better job, so check out http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/ Delib look forward working with… read more

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Ideas Forest and Blog launch

Posted by MichaelaD on Oct 30 2008 | Consultation, Delib news and events, Engagement, Good examples, Projects and client work

As those who keep up with the Team Rubber blog know, we have just launched a very shiny Ideas Forest and Blog for DIUS at http://ideas.iagreview.org.uk/ This marks an exciting step forward for our Ideas Tree platform, by creating a forest of subjects to add ideas to, tied in with a blog to really facilitate deeper discussion of those ideas. Personally I think its a thing… read more

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Who wants to be? – It’s like PB…

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 28 2008 | Debate, Engagement, Good examples, Participation

Thanks to Ed Mitchell for pointing this one out to us, an interesting event that basically works on a Participatory Budgeting model, but as more of a fun evening of games and debates. The idea is that the audience for the event get their entrance money for it pooled together, then get to vote on how it's spent. Unlike PB though, they also get to vote on pretty much… read more

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Just. Use. Youtube.

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 27 2008 | Advice, Conversations, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

It's becoming a bit of a mantra round here, but time and again we're telling clients to use Youtube for their video content, unless they've got a genuine reason for not doing (such as wanting to restrict the content to a small group). Not making use of a channel that is a) free and b) has a massive existing user base just seems like utter madness. Of course, Youtube in a… read more

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Google gets Opinion Tracker-y on the VP debate

Posted by Ben on Oct 07 2008 | Democracy and government, Good examples, Opinion research

There's an enlightening post on the official Google blog which shares some of the data trends from the search engine during last week's American vice-presidential debate: candidates, questions and queries.

I love this kind of data where people's intentions are so clear (everybody 'straight talks' into Google) and present in such large numbers.  I was especially pleased to see this as it's… read more

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