The Participation Company
As an IAP2 USA Board member, I would like to take a short moment to plug the membership drive we kicked off in October and which will end tomorrow, January 31, at midnight: IAP2 USA Fall Membership Campaign: $99 Deal, Good for 99 Days! I don’t have the latest numbers handy, but it looks like we’re getting [...]
{ 0 comments }
Last year, after having been actively involved in its creation, I decided to run for a seat on the Board of Directors of IAP2 USA. Here are the goals I had in mind then: And here are a few of the things I’d like the new Board to focus on during the first year: Establish IAP2 [...]
{ 0 comments }
As you know, the White House is asking for input on public participation best practices and metrics, including for e-participation. I’m informally pulling together a few fellow IAP2 USA members to discuss how we might want to answer the technology part. We might take this opportunity to kick off our community of practice around online [...]
{ 6 comments }
A quick advertisement this morning. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping to work on when I signed up to be a member of the Board last year: Monthly Practitioner Call Kick-Off: December 5, 2011 As part of our 2012 goals around community of practice, we’re launching a monthly practitioner call — [...]
{ 0 comments }
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, you might want to check out this exciting event the IAP2 NorCal Chapter is putting on (I’m chapter co-chair): IAP2 NorCal Event: Fixing Broke(n) Governments through Serious Games, November 17 in San Francisco Governments around the world are all facing budget shortfalls, spending cuts and reduced services. All [...]
{ 0 comments }
I’ll be in San Francisco this Thursday night to meet up with fellow members and friends of the IAP2 NorCal chapter. From the IAP2 USA blog: NorCal Chapter Meetup This Thursday in SF As promised, here are the details for this week’s get-together of the Northern California chapter: IAP2 NorCal Meetup Thursday, May 5 from [...]
{ 0 comments }
I’m running for the Board of IAP2 USA. Here are a few reasons why: I believe strongly in the power of participation, and IAP2 with its solid framework (core values, code of ethics, spectrum etc.) and centuries of collective experience among its membership is one of the premier organizations in this field. IAP2 USA is [...]
{ 5 comments }
Since I last mentioned it in September, quite a bit of progress has been made towards starting up the new IAP2 USA: the application to become an IAP2 Affiliate was approved by the International Board in November, the blog has been seeing about ten posts per month and regular comments, and both individuals and organizations are beginning to [...]
{ 0 comments }
Conversations Elsewhere