I’ve claimed a bit of space in the social networking world for those interested in e-democracy and the efforts of E-Democracy.Org. We will use these spaces to connect those active on those platforms who want to show their support for our non-partisan “local up” model of building democracy online. We also look forward to [...]

My l…e…n…g…t…h…y response to David Wilcox’s excellent and provocative blog post titled Charity web managers sceptical about walking the web talk.
Cross-posted in the comment section of his blog post.
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Should I post here (David’s blog comments) with a comment or should I use my own blog?
With a comment, I am essentially a second class participant, while [...]

In a major victory speech likely next Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said the new majority will build the “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.”
One of the most important building blocks will be how the institution of the House uses the Internet to provide not just deep access to the [...]

Thank you OnlineGroups.Net. As you may have noticed, a number of the DoWire Groups online communities of practice are open and quiet active.
They include the e-participation online community of practice called “Consult” for short, the E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network, and the new UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange.
I’ve received a number of queries [...]

And the winner over RSS (headline feeds) is the trusty old e-mail newsletter.
See:
Email Newsletters: New Results From Eyetracking and User Research (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
I’ve added a link to the e-newletters brief in our e-democracy best practices wiki.
If your e-democracy project/government/NGO has a website but no opt-in e-mail newsletter, you are failing your online mission. [...]