How about a Democracy Online Day every October 17th?
Share your celebration plans here:
www.dowire.org/wiki/Democracy_Online_Day
Take the pledge via PledgeBank and invite others:
www.pledgebank.com/democracyonline
Back in 1998, when working for the Markle Foundation’s Web White & Blue effort we had a simple concept. Declare a day to celebrate and promotion [...]

For those receiving the e-mail version, I thought you might be interested in what was posted to the blog during our transition time. From now on you will receive the full text of these posts (I’ll explain the “topic digest” option next week) conveniently in your mailbox.
Cheers,
Steven Clift
dowire.org – where new folks can sign-up [...]

Thank you for being a part of Democracies Online. Whether you are reading this via the web on the blog or just opened this message in your e-mail box, DoWire (Democracies Online Newswire) is about bringing together everyone in the world interested in building better democracies with information and communications technologies.
With the new “Newswire” [...]

In January 1998, I started sharing announcements about e-democracy via a simple e-mail list called DO-WIRE or the Democracies Online Newswire. Today the Newswire reaches over 2700 people across 100 countries via e-mail (many times a week) and the blog reaches … hmmm, I don’t really know.
With this post, most new posts on “Steven [...]

For what seems like a gazillion years I’ve been trying to figure out a cost-effective way to use open source blogging tools with my main DoWire e-mail announcement list.
I’ve always been skeptical of the ability of blogs to attract repeat visitors even with RSS feeds. I’ve been unwilling to accept basic e-mail plug-ins because [...]