Comments on: E-participation efforts on Change.gov http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/ The Participation Company Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: New Guide from NAPA: Tools for Online Idea Generation http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-24012 New Guide from NAPA: Tools for Online Idea Generation Sat, 07 May 2011 19:54:53 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-24012 [...] Another common feature in this tool category is that they expose the leader board (those ideas which have received the most votes). This, of course, tends to significantly distort the results as the top ideas receive the bulk of participants’ attention (see this post). [...] [...] Another common feature in this tool category is that they expose the leader board (those ideas which have received the most votes). This, of course, tends to significantly distort the results as the top ideas receive the bulk of participants’ attention (see this post). [...]

]]> By: Brainstorming Policy Ideas Online: We’re Not There Yet! http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-4313 Brainstorming Policy Ideas Online: We’re Not There Yet! Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:49:18 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-4313 [...] what I wrote back in January 2009: Having looked at a number of large-scale online input gathering efforts [...] [...] what I wrote back in January 2009: Having looked at a number of large-scale online input gathering efforts [...]

]]> By: Obama – Making sense of the world? « blogs.independent.co.uk http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-3458 Obama – Making sense of the world? « blogs.independent.co.uk Thu, 27 May 2010 19:00:47 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3458 [...] signs are that Obama, and the team around him, are mindful of this. As others have noted already, one of the most encouraging aspect of the Change.gov experiment was the speed at [...] [...] signs are that Obama, and the team around him, are mindful of this. As others have noted already, one of the most encouraging aspect of the Change.gov experiment was the speed at [...]

]]> By: Obama: Making Sense of the World? | Debategraph http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-3184 Obama: Making Sense of the World? | Debategraph Mon, 10 May 2010 12:37:42 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-3184 [...] signs are that Obama, and the team around him, are mindful of this. As others have noted already, one of the most encouraging aspect of the Change.gov experiment was the speed at [...] [...] signs are that Obama, and the team around him, are mindful of this. As others have noted already, one of the most encouraging aspect of the Change.gov experiment was the speed at [...]

]]> By: 14 Ways to Make Online Citizen Participation Work: “Keep folks in the loop!” « Intellitics http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 14 Ways to Make Online Citizen Participation Work: “Keep folks in the loop!” « Intellitics Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:30:14 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-1224 [...] One of the challenges we’ve seen with many of the recent e-participation initiatives at the national level is the fact that they tend to produce more raw content in a short period of time than any single participant would ever be able to digest. From what we’ve observed, this problem starts to occur at fairly small group sizes of several hundred participants and up, and the sheer volume of the participants’ collective input can quickly become overwhelming (for details, see here, here and here). [...] [...] One of the challenges we’ve seen with many of the recent e-participation initiatives at the national level is the fact that they tend to produce more raw content in a short period of time than any single participant would ever be able to digest. From what we’ve observed, this problem starts to occur at fairly small group sizes of several hundred participants and up, and the sheer volume of the participants’ collective input can quickly become overwhelming (for details, see here, here and here). [...]

]]> By: Obama: Making Sense of the World? : Open to persuasion… http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Obama: Making Sense of the World? : Open to persuasion… Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:50:05 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-637 [...] signs are that Obama, and the team around him, are mindful of this. As others have noted already, one of the most encouraging aspect of the Change.gov experiment was the speed at [...] [...] signs are that Obama, and the team around him, are mindful of this. As others have noted already, one of the most encouraging aspect of the Change.gov experiment was the speed at [...]

]]> By: Tim http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2009/01/17/e-participation-efforts-on-changegov/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Tim Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:39:27 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=72#comment-636 PEP-NET has a comprehensive review up: "Change.gov – citizen engagement during Barack Obama’s transition" http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/?p=300 As they correctly point out, "Join the Discussion" had two additional installments that I had almost overlooked: Join the Discussion: Economy (approx. December 3-10) http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_economy/ Join the Discussion: Service (approx. December 12-18) http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_service/ I've updated the post. PEP-NET has a comprehensive review up:

“Change.gov – citizen engagement during Barack Obama’s transition”
http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/?p=300

As they correctly point out, “Join the Discussion” had two additional installments that I had almost overlooked:

Join the Discussion: Economy (approx. December 3-10)
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_economy/

Join the Discussion: Service (approx. December 12-18)
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_service/

I’ve updated the post.

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