The Participation Company
These were our three most popular posts in January: Response to White House Request for Input: What Are the Most Effective Web Tools for Public Participation? 2012 Event and Conference Radar What Is Public Participation? Thanks for following along, everyone!
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Like last year, we’re taking a quick moment to look back at the topics that stood out over the past twelve months. Here are our top 10 most popular posts of 2011: February 14: Calgary Budget Consultation: 13 Design Principles February 21: CRS Report on Open Government Initiative March 7: How To Create Policy on a Wiki March [...]
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A couple of months ago, we set up our Intellitics company page on Google+, a new social networking thingy from Google. It’s still early days for this service, but more people and organizations are joining every day so things are bound to get more interesting over time. If you’re already using Google+, feel free to circle [...]
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2011 finished strong, with December being our second best blog month of the year (our third best ever). Here are the three most popular posts: November 28, 2011: 2012 Event and Conference Radar December 6, 2011: White House Seeking Guidance on E-Participation July 22, 2010: What Is Public Participation? As usual, thank you for commenting here or elsewhere. [...]
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Event calendars are popular! Our small list has quickly grown to 24 entries and easily made the list of top posts for November: What Is Public Participation? 2012 Event and Conference Radar Occupy Research Wiki Thanks!
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Here are October’s top posts, including two fresh ones: What Is Public Participation? Tree Bressen: The Top 10 Most Common Mistakes in Consensus Process Occupy Research Wiki Thanks for reading!
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I’m quoted in the Economist today: Government by (all) the people [...] Successful examples of legislation by the masses are rare. Most people don’t know how to write laws. Tim Bonnemann, the founder of Intellitics, an American firm specialising in public-participation tools, says a better method is to canvas views widely but use a small [...]
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Here are our top posts from September: What Is Government 2.0? What Is Public Participation? White House Petitions: A Small Sample of Popular Feedback Some good comments, too. Thanks, everyone!
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August turned out to be unexpectedly quiet. Here are the three most popular posts (all from the archives): What Is Public Participation? What Is Public Participation? New York Times Budget Puzzle Here’s to a more productive September! Maybe there’s a few interesting tidbits to report back from Germany.
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Here are July’s most popular posts: What Is Public Participation? Public Participation: It’s the Law! New York Times Budget Puzzle Onwards to a record-breaking August.
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Over on the ParticipateDB blog, we ask: What’s Next for ParticipateDB? If you’ve been following the project and find it a useful addition to your list of online resources, please let us know what we can and should do to make the site better. A few good ideas have already been added in the comments. Thank [...]
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Once again, here are last month’s three most popular posts: What’s Next California: What Should The Observers Be Monitoring? White House To Seek Input (Again): A Few Basic Tips to Make It Work What Is Public Participation? Thanks for the comments, everyone!
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I was invited to contribute one of three short op-eds about the upcoming Deliberative Poll “What’s Next California?” for Zócalo Public Square, an online magazine on civic issues based in Los Angeles, CA. You can read all three of them here (scroll to the bottom for mine): Hurdles Remain, But It’s a Start The second of [...]
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Following a slow April, things did start to pick up again in May. Our three most popular posts: What Is Government 2.0? Micro-Participation In Online Consultations New York Times Budget Puzzle Onwards to June!
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April turned out to be one of those low-yield blog months, and none of the most recent posts were able to score against the archives. Here are the three most popular ones: What Is Government 2.0? New York Times Budget Puzzle What Is Public Participation? Let’s hope things pick up again in May.
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Hot off the analytics machine, here are our most popular posts from March: How to Create Policy on a Wiki What Is Government 2.0? SXSW Future 15: Designing Successful Online Consultations Thanks to all our readers for making March the second busiest month ever. Now on to April!
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Almost forgot to list our three most popular posts for February. Here they are: New York Times Budget Puzzle Calgary Budget Consultation: 13 Design Principles What Is Government 2.0? The March leader board looks quite different so far.
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For the third month in a row, our coverage of the New York Times’ Budget Puzzle topped our charts. Here are our three most popular posts for January 2011: New York Times Budget Puzzle Six Questions For ExpertNet What Is Government 2.0? A bunch of interesting topics are already lining up for February. Stay tuned!
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It took a couple of attempts (see here, here), but now it looks like web-based public participation will finally get some exposure at SXSW this year. Here’s the announcement: Future15 Lineup for 2011: Shorter is Better At the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival, we launched a series of short-form panel content called Future15s. These fast-paced sessions proved [...]
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Now that the new year is already well under way, we wanted to take a brief moment to look back on 2010. Here on this blog, we’ve written extensively about public participation, examined its relation to crowdsourcing, and have monitored and reviewed a number of noteworthy Open Government efforts. With well over one hundred entries, [...]
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