The Participation Company
Early on during the Expertnet consultation last year, I shared the following (sadly, the Expertnet wiki is locked due to its paid subscription having expired, but Google still has most of it cached): re: Notifying Experts tbonnema Dec 18, 2010 12:43 am It looks like ExpertNet is trying to solve at least two distinct problems: [...]
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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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We know there are a lot of (online) tools for participation available today, and we find out about more examples of how they are being used almost every day. About three weeks ago, someone asked me if I knew of any politicians strongly committed to voter participation who “have started to use these techniques sincerely [...]
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One year ago today, we launched a neat little site: ParticipateDB Here’s what the 40+ contributors have been able to collect so far: 160 tools 202 projects 118 references 20+ countries There’s a lot more out there that deserves to be catalogued, but it’s a start. Looking forward to year two!
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I was recently invited to write a short article about ParticipateDB for the Spring edition of GSA Office of Citizen Services and Communications’ Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter (PDF, 3.4 MB). Here’s a quote that describes one of the challenges ParticipateDB tries to address: The Challenge While public participation is at the core of our democracy, e-participation, as it [...]
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Just a quick weekend update to share the latest ParticipateDB developments: Today, we launched the site’s third main content bucket: references. Here’s how we define the term in the FAQ: How do you define “references”? A reference to us is any kind of related information on the web that can provide more context and detail to [...]
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Over on the recently re-launched Ascentum blog, Joseph Peters (Partner at Ascentum) and Joe Goldman (Vice President of Citizen Engagement at AmericaSpeaks) just published a neat list of ten key questions to consider before launching an online public consultation: Open Policy Making 101: 10 Questions To Ask Before Launching Your Online Public Consultation 1. What do you want [...]
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A few weeks into this fun side project, we just added “projects” to ParticipateDB. As I mentioned at launch, the idea is to show where the various tools are being used in practice and how (there are only a handful of fairly unrefined entries available yet but you get the idea). The project entries don’t aspire [...]
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Probably the most memorable presentation at the 2007 Community Next conference in Stanford was “The Patent-Pending skinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness and Other Cool Stuff” by Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell of skinnyCorp, makers of Threadless and other entertaining projects large and small. As Kalmikoff pointed out in one of the stories they shared [...]
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