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	<description>Experiments in Civic Sensemaking</description>
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		<title>More on Crowdstorming and Crowdsourcing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what is turning out to be a truly fun excercise, This Week in Participation (our new little internet radio show) has meanwhile cranked out a couple more episodes:

TWiP 2: Crowdstorming
TWiP 3: Crowdsourcing in Urban Planning

Both sessions came in at under 20 minutes each and together make for a nice follow-up to a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/03/11/more-on-crowdstorming-and-crowdsourcing/</link>
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		<title>Open Gov West: March 26-27 in Seattle, WA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I finally get to attend one of the many events on Gov 2.0 and Open Government:
Open Gov West
The greater Northwest and Cascadia region is buzzing with innovative technology and civic engagement organizations, and a number of governments throughout the area have already launched open government directives. Hosted by the City of Seattle and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/03/09/open-gov-west-march-26-27-in-seattle-wa/</link>
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		<title>This Week in Participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And now for something fun: talking about participation &#8212; more often, with more people, and in ways that allow more people to tune in.
That&#8217;s the idea behind This Week in Participation (TWiP), a new program we just launched. Here&#8217;s what it&#8217;s about:
This Week in Participation (TWiP) is kind of like an internet radio show. Except [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/03/02/this-week-in-participation/</link>
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		<title>Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation: June 30 &#8211; July 2, 2010 in Leeds, UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the website:
30 June – 2 July, 2010
Leeds University Business School, UK
The widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towards democratisation worldwide have encouraged new modes, projects and visions of citizen participation in decision making and governance.
OD2010 aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from a wide range of academic and applied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/25/fourth-international-conference-on-online-deliberation-june-30-july-2-2010-in-leeds-uk/</link>
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		<title>OpenGov Forum Metrics: Adoption Graph Week 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, I&#8217;ve been tracking the numbers from the ongoing Open Government discussions on a daily basis (follow the thread on GovLoop for details). We&#8217;re now almost three weeks into this initiative. Here&#8217;s a chart that shows how the numbers have developed since February 9 (a few days after launch):

Ideas: 993
Comments: 2,314
Votes: 13,747
Users: 3,898
Growth is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/24/opengov-forum-metrics-adoption-graph-week-3/</link>
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		<title>Involve Looking for Participation Case Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via the Public Decisions blog (co-organizer of the Including the Excluded online conference we&#8217;ll be attending), I just found out about a new research effort by Involve, a UK-based not-for-profit offering public participation consulting and services: Quantifying the Value of Engagement: A call for case studies
Dear Colleague,
Involve are embarking on an ambitious project with Consumer Focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/21/involve-looking-for-participation-case-studies/</link>
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		<title>New EPA Rulemaking Gateway: Building a Public Participation Calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time, I&#8217;ve been suggesting the creation of a national public participation calendar and project directory as a key component of the Open Government Directive:

May 2009: Open Government Dialogue: “Create an Open Government Project Directory and Knowledge Base”
January 2010: Open Government Needs Public Participation Calendars

Based on this post on NextGov, it looks like the U.S. Environmental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/19/new-epa-rulemaking-gateway-building-a-public-participation-calendar/</link>
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		<title>Including the Excluded, March 2-4, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following some peer recommendations (here, here), I just signed up for Including the Excluded &#8211; The 2010 Stakeholder Engagement Online Conference, March 2-4, 2010:


About This Conference
Conference Theme: Equity, Accessibility and Social Inclusion
Effectively engaging diverse people or groups can be challenging; what works well for the majority may not work as well for some individuals or groups. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/18/including-the-excluded-march-2-4-2010/</link>
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		<title>OpenGov Tracker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, a new site was launched that helps track activity across the 23 federal agencies that are using IdeaScale for their consultations on Open Government: OpenGov Tracker
This webpage makes use of the IdeaScale API to aggregate data for all agencies which are making use of that platform. USDA and Health and Human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/15/opengov-tracker/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Budget Challenge: Feedback from the Mayor&#8217;s Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of people commented on last month&#8217;s post about the Los Angeles Budget Challenge (both online and offline), and most seemed to share my concerns regarding the survey design.

Shortly after publishing the post, I reached out to the City of Los Angeles via the email address given on the site. I figured many readers might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/09/los-angeles-budget-challenge-feedback-from-the-mayors-office/</link>
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		<title>Share Your OpenGov Forum Tracking Data on GovLoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my list of ten things to monitor, I&#8217;ve started a thread on GovLoop: Monitoring and continuous evaluation of OpenGov forums
Here&#8217;s my initial post:

As part of my ongoing efforts to monitor the various feedback channels that have been launched as part of the Open Government Directive, I&#8217;ll be tracking some basic metrics. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/09/share-your-opengov-forum-tracking-data-on-govloop/</link>
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		<title>No Better Time Conference Report Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The report from last year&#8217;s No Better Time conference is now available: No Better Time: A 2010 Report on Opportunities and Challenges for Deliberative Democracy (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Executive summary
In July 2009, more than 250 campus and community leaders came together at the University of New Hampshire to talk about the “deliberative democracy” field, the tide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/08/no-better-time-conference-report-available/</link>
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		<title>Ten Things to Monitor As Agencies Invite Input On Open Government Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that a whole lot of agency.gov/open websites are live and many agencies have indeed set up a &#8221;mechanism for the public to [...] [p]rovide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan&#8221; it&#8217;s time to figure out what to watch out for over the coming weeks and months in order to evaluate the success of these initiatives.
As I noted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/07/ten-things-to-monitor-as-agencies-invite-input-on-open-government-plans/</link>
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		<title>OpenGov Open Feedback Firehose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update 2010/02/15: Added feeds for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the list below, added National Archives to Pipes feed.
The Open Government Directive, issued on December 8, 2009 stated:
1. Publish Government Information Online
[...]
e.  Within 60 days, each agency shall create an Open Government Webpage located at http://www.[agency].gov/open to serve as the gateway for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/06/opengov-open-feedback-firehose/</link>
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		<title>Semi-Anonymous Comments on Peak Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my recent post about Quora&#8217;s approach to anonymous postings, here&#8217;s an example of a related feature.
Peak Democracy is a &#8220;non-partisan company whose mission is to broaden civic engagement and build public trust in government.&#8221;  Their Open City Hall™ service is a monitored online public comment process that promises &#8220;order and decorum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2010/02/04/semi-anonymous-comments-on-peak-democracy/</link>
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