Social Media for Government – September 26-29 in Victoria BC
This September, I’m joining a group of interesting speakers with perspectives on the use of social media in government, including the City of Edmonton’s CIO Chris Moore, BC Ministry of ...
Susanna Haas Lyons
Reflecting on Public Participation in Our Time
Motivating Environmental Behaviour with Social Media
My Everyday Earth is a Facebook application that encourages pro-environmental behaviour through social competition and personalized measurements. At it’s core, participants sign up for challenges, input progress to get feedback ...
Four Free e-Democracy Learning Events this Month
There’s a bunch of great e-democracy events happening this June, all of which are accessible remotely. Check out these talks, which feature folks like the White House’s Macon Phillips, Pew’s ...
Great Video on Social Media Policy for Governments
Governments and organizations are all scrambling to develop the right guidelines for their employee’s use of social media. One of the biggest challenges is the blurring of personal and private ...
GeorgiaStraight.com on my Facebook Transportation Discussion
Vancouver’s lifestyle and entertainment weekly newspaper, the Georgia Straight, published an online article about my latest research project – a Facebook based public conversation about the City of Vancouver’s Transportation Plan.
Civic Technologies in This Magazine
Forty-five years after This Magazine first published, they went to some of their favourite writers and asked them “to recommend the individuals and organizations that most excite them today — ...
Moving Images on Public Participation
I’ve shown up on the video intertubes a few times over the years so thought I’d grab some of those and put them in one place. These videos are all about increasing the public’s role in decision making, or as AmericaSpeaks would say, strengthening our democracy.
Free Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis
Good public conversations require that participants have access to balanced information about key issues. (Designing the meeting so that participants have a chance to absorb the meeting is another best practice!). However, data can be… boring! And boring, or hard to understand information is of no use in a good public meeting. Luckily, there are free tools to help make data delicious.
Put it to a social vote: Hyperarchy
My Google alerts just introduced me to a new collaborative decision making tool called Hyperarchy Social, by Nathan Sobo of Pivotal Labs. The tool invites users to pose a question and offer multiple answer options. Where it gets good is in the ranking interface (drag and drop, which is fun) and in the ability for anyone add an answer option.
Call for UK Nominations: Internet and Society Awards
Acknowledge your personal Internet heroes (United Kingdom-based) by nominating them for a new award, by April 15. The University of Oxford’s Internet Institute (OII) is launching these awards on its tenth anniversary to publicly recognise some of the individuals and organisations that have played a pivotal role in shaping today’s Internet. Public nominations are being invited for journalists, politicians, non-profits and public institutions, with a glaring omission of a category for technological contributors.
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