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E-commerce comes to Canada
Dec 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
After years of being marginalized by the online marketplace, Canada is finally getting access to a wide range of online retailers -- thanks to Borderfree, a service owned by Canada Post. Borderfree lets online retailers easily sell their products in international...
Evaluating civic engagement projects
Dec 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
A recent discussion on DO-Consult turned to the question of how we can evaluate the success of electronic citizen engagement projects. One list member pointed out that the issues probably aren't too different from the challenges of evaluating off-line engagement...
Online training course for eModerators
Dec 2, 2004 | Classics
The UK's Hansard Society is offering a training course for eModerators. The course begins on January 17, 2005, and will take place entirely online. It runs over a five week period, during which participants will need to spend about 5 hours per week online. It will...
Government RSS, push and pull
Nov 19, 2004 | Classics
Wired has a story on how the US government is using RSS as a tool for communicating with the public. This is great news, since RSS is a nice way of bridging "push" and "pull" (remember how trendy that distinction used to be?) The Wired story links to RSS Gov, a web...
Headlines that prove the world is ending soon
Nov 18, 2004 | Classics
'The Official Halo 2 Strategy Guide' Has Biggest Random House, Inc. First-Day Sale Since Clinton's 'My Life'
Beyond the electronic whiteboard
Nov 18, 2004 | Classics
As seen on Cairns: Nothing too new about electronic whiteboards as a collaborative tool (see, for example, this experiment from Colorado). But the InterWrite MeetingPad creates a new range of options. It's a wireless, handheld tablet that uses Bluetooth to communicate...
Another setback for political science
Nov 17, 2004 | Classics
Yesterday I finally received my doctorate. The actual piece of Latin-inscribed paper showed up at my door care of Fedex (classy move, Harvard!), officially licensing me in the practice of political science. Yesterday was also the deadline for submitting proposals for...
North American Summit on Citizen Engagement: Day 3
Nov 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
As posted on Cairns: Our last day began with a panel of elected politicians discussing the role of civic engagement in their work. Listening to their experiences and comments, I was struck by how much of the burden of civic engagement seems to be laid at their feet....
The 49th Parallel looms large at the North American Summit on Citizen Engagement
Nov 12, 2004 | Classics
As seen on Cairns: I spent the bus ride up to Whistler doing a Q&A session on the Canadian legislative process for an American visitor. He was – like many Americans I’ve met – more apologetic than necessary for his lack of knowledge about Canadian politics. I’m...
The North American Summit on Citizen Engagement: Day 1
Nov 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
As posted to Cairns: Today was the first day of the North American Summit on Citizen Engagement, sponsored by The Whistler Forum for Dialogue. It’s a remarkable gathering of experts, practitioners and thoughtful commentators in the field of public engagement and...