"What does Minneapolis look like when it achieves its goals? Share and
vote on ideas."
Go here:
http://bit.ly/successminneapolis
The five most popular ideas right now:
1. More trees: success defined by a healthy tree canopy
2. Employee development
3. New businesses can grow in all parts of the city
4. Incentives available to green/clean/sustainably minded businesses
5. Aging in Place
When you vote an item up or down you can easily register in the system
using a social media account or create a stand alone account. The city
is using a tool called IdeaScale.
While great ideas popcorn up all the time on our online community
forums, here is an opportunity to put them into an official city
engagement process!
From the news release below - "Once the engagement period closes, City
staff will develop measures for the most popular themes within each
City goal."
See:
http://bit.ly/successminneapolis
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
From:
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/WCMS1P-135916
How should the City of Minneapolis gauge its success?
How should Minneapolis measure how well it’s doing? The City of
Minneapolis is launching the Community Indicators Project to create
measures to help the community, City leaders and staff determine how
successful the City is at achieving its goals.
Through the project, the City is looking for input from the community
to help define what success looks like. Through community outreach and
online engagement, the City wants to hear from folks on what
Minneapolis looks like when the City achieves its goals. For example,
what does “Living Well” (one of the five City goals) mean to those who
live, work and play in Minneapolis? Does it mean connected
neighborhoods? Access to amenities? Safe streets?
The City is using tailored engagement strategies to ensure it gets a
variety of perspectives from a wide range of communities including
cultural communities, GLBTQA, seniors, youth and City employees.
People will have opportunities to provide input through community
listening sessions, paper surveys and an online engagement tool until
Feb. 6. The engagement tool will allow folks to share their ideas on
what success in Minneapolis looks like and also let them vote on those
ideas. Because the online engagement tool uses crowdsourcing
technology, the information within the tool will update in real time
to display the changing input and ideas of its users.
Once the engagement period closes, City staff will develop measures
for the most popular themes within each City goal.
Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy
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