OpenIdeo is poised to announce the winner of their “restoring vibrancy to cities” crowdsourced challenge, winnowing down an initial list of 331 concepts to a short list of 20 finalists and now to a single winner.
YPulse reports on Sesame Street’s new augmented reality app unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week.
Civic Commons launched the Civic Commons Marketplace to help government folks find the best online engagement tools for their own community’s needs (h/t to EngagingCities for the heads up).
Cooltown Studios reports on a city-led “crowdsourced placemaking” project in Hilo, Hawaii.
Spatially Adjusted reported on Urban Airship’s decision to kill SimpleGeo.
Digital Urban shows off a clip they made using Lumion, a quick and easy 3D engine allowing you to import models from Google SketchUp.
Digital Urban also described a new research paper comparing the quantity of information in a proprietary set of maps to those available through the OpenStreetMap, an open source map dataset.
EngagingCities points to a vibrant discussion on the LinkedIn “Community Engagement” group and a list of some of the participants’ go-to websites for community engagement information.
The Entrepreneur.com blog has some social media predictions by some marketing and social media luminaries, including Chris Brogan and Gary Vaynerchuk.
This is from last month but still worth posting: Intellitics offers an early glance at a forthcoming book by Tom Atlee on citizen deliberative councils.
Newswise reports on five new research projects at the University of Illinois at Chicago focused on improving citizen participation in government services. They include developing better tools for citizen participation in government budgeting and an exploration of the role of digital libraries in civic life, among others.
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