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Ideas Forest and blog launch

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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.

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Welcome back to Budget Simulator!

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This is just a quick post to welcome back some Councils who have renewed their Budget Simulator licenses in the last few weeks.

Read the full entry: Welcome back to Budget Simulator!


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Just. Use. Youtube.

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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.

Read more on this story on the blog


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Delib sponsors and exhibits at the Headstar E-Democracy Conference 08

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A quick note to all those heading to the bright lights of London, Tuesday, 11th November to the Headstar E-Democracy Conference 08, that a full Delib contingent will be present, and happy to discuss all things e-consultation and online opinion research.

Continue reading Delib sponsors and exibits at the Headstar E-Democracy Conference 08...


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The Twitter Election

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Can't let this morning pass without a quick blog really. Lots has been said already about the role of the internet in the US election over the last year or two, and being politically neutral it's not really our bag to get involved in campaigning related issues here at Delib.

Keep reading The Twitter Election


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'Who wants to be?' It's like PB

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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 every aspect of the event, even down to what the rules themselves should be.

Read more about Who wants to be? - Its like PB Here


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Google get Opinion Tracker-y on the VP debate

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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.

Read the full blog post Google gets Opinion Tracker-y


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Delib join PEP-NET

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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.

Read more: Delib join PEP-NET