All posts in the topic Setting up a Local Issues Forum (Short link)
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- There are 3 posts — by 3 authors — in this topic.
- Latest post made by Dan Randow at Sep 10 01:51 UTC
This question came in to me a few days ago. I thought that the
answers I gave might be of interest to others (actually, I just
rewrote it for this group).
>I would like to start an Issues Forum for the Town of ____________.
>I've skimmed through the Guidebook 3.0 and I joined the St. Paul
>forum so I have a basic/novice level understanding of how this
>works. But there are still two points I am not clear on. First,
>would our forum be hosted on your server? At least initially this
>would be very helpful. Second, is it possible to create multiple
>forums within the same community?
If you are considering setting up a Local Issues Forum in your
community, you have at least two choices.
#1) You can take all the information and tools from our site and set
one up on your own.
#2) You can launch an E-Democracy.Org Local Issues Forum for your
community and host it on our web site and get some level of technical
support. As an E-Democracy.Org Local Issues Forum, it would have to
comply with some E-Democracy.Org standards, but would primarily be
under the control of your local steering committee. You can always
move your Local Issues Forum away from E-Democracy.Org site at a
later date.
Once you have decided to launch an E-Democracy.Org local issues forum
in your community, the first and most important step is to begin to
organize a local steering committee, that is not dominated by any
particular political party or interest group. Your Local Issues Forum
steering committee should be seen as a trustworthy and credible
non-partisan group.
We have a number of communities that are currently at the
"considering" stage. Please, let us know where you are at and how we
can be of assistance.
Best wishes,
Tim Erickson
E-Democracy.Org
Tim Erickson wrote:
> [...] You can always
> move your Local Issues Forum away from E-Democracy.Org site at a
> later date. [...]
How complicated is this? I didn't see any way to download the
entire content of the forum in a standard format (like mbox or
whatever) but maybe it's only visible to Forum Managers.
> We have a number of communities that are currently at the
> "considering" stage. Please, let us know where you are at and how we
> can be of assistance.
Sounding out the people who I think could be steering.
Keep taking the pills and answering the Qs, please.
Hi Folks, After setting up the Canterbury Online Public Issues Forum, http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/canterburyissues I wrote a guide to starting a local online public issues forum in Aotearoa New Zealand. It documents some of what I learned in the process, and includes various resources that we created along the way. It's available from this post on our blog. http://blog.onlinegroups.net/2008/09/10/start-a-local-online-public-issues-forum/ Please use, circulate and comment. best to all,