From:
Steven Clift
Date:
Aug 19 15:42 UTC
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E-Democracy.Org is opening at least three funded new Issues Forums in rural
Minnesota.
Last week we visited two interested communities. Bemidji is a Northern MN
college town with about 11,000 residents. Just down the road is the town of
Cass
Lake with under 1,000 people, but the forum will cover a broader area near Cass
Lake (the lake itself) and Leech Lake inclusive of those who live in the Leech
Lake Indian Reservation be they Native American, white, etc.. This is a native
majority region. It is home to three very large lakes, multiple counties, state
land and the federal Chippewa National Forest ... in short a jurisdictional
tossed salad.
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
From:
http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/166
August 18, 2008
Issues Forum Presentation Slides, Bemidji and Cass Lake Leech Lake Say Yes
Written by Steven Clift
Steve Kranz and I had a great time in Bemidji and Cass Lake last week. We had
about 15-20 people total across our two “Your Voice. Your Community”
presentations highlighting some citizen media trends and digging into online
civic engagement with Issues Forums.
Below are our slides, and here is a short video from Cass Lake just outside the
Leech Lake Tribal College.
Volunteers from both Bemidji and Cass Lake have already followed up with strong
interest and their local steering committees and forums are now being
developed.
Steve Kranz will be helping coach their start-up efforts.
Sign up now to reserve your space in the Bemidji Area Issues Forum or the Cass
Lake Leech Lake Issues Forum. If you’d like to participate in the local
steering
committee for either forum, drop us a note. We even have paper sign-up forms
for
Bemidji and Cass Lake Leech Lake available to download and print for in-person
use. In addition to recruitment at key in-person events, planning for “virtual
door knocking” will be required.
The slides to preview or download (see our about Issues Forum section for our
guidebook, etc.):
Issues Forums - Online Town Halls from E-Democracy
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: politics community)
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1 Comments
1. Becky LaPlant says:
Hi Steve - thanks for this post about your presentations in Bemidji and
Cass Lake, and for including your slides.
You and Steve did a great job. Thank you!
Becky
August 18, 2008 @ 8:48 pm | Edit