I have one final question, as hosts of local online blogs, e-lists, social
nets, etc. we are interested in understanding more about what value our
members and efforts can bring to the wider community.
For example, when I encourage an elected official or civil servant
constructively engage one of our forums, I have to answer the "so what"
question. Part of that answer is, the people we've gathered are
influentials, they know their neighbors, they get involved (or we say to a
prospective members this is a place to effectively start doing those
things). As we resource inclusive outreach, we can add - you'll reach a
greater diversity in the community that at anyone physical meeting.
I am not sure whether to cleave off blog visitors or informal neighbor to
neighbor e-mailers with this question, but I am in particular interested in
knowing more about the attributes of the "joiners" of nhood e-mail lists and
social nets compared to everyone else.
What percentage of Neighborhood E-List/Social Net Joiners and/or Neighbors
Online (compared others):
* know all or most of their neighbors
* talked face-to-face with neighbors about community issues
* discussed community issues over the telephone
* read a blog dealing with community issues
* exchanged emails with neighbors about community issues
* say they belong to a community email listserv (if looking at NOs overall)
* communicated with neighbors by text messaging on cell phones
* joined a social network site group connected to community issues (if
looking at NOs overall)
* followed neighbors using Twitter
* Subscribe to school event alerts
* Subscribe to crime alerts
* Are also online government participators (I think you shared this once)
* Say they deal with most often...local government, state government or the
federal government?
* Have posted online on a government issue
I am not sure how long this might take you to churn out. Perhaps, there is
an easy way to run NOs/e-list/sn "joiners" across all the responses and I
can dig for the nuggets??
Also, with the data available, for those with SPSS skills, what might you be
able to tell us?
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org
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