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Participation By Design: Twitter-government … Can Micro-Participation Stimulate Public Engagement?

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 13, 2012

This post, by guest blogger Jennifer Evans-Cowley, is the first in a month-long series on the diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, art-based [...]

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Most Exciting Trends in 2012: Mobile, Social, and Local

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 13, 2012

Five trends I’m excited about for 2012: 1) Mobile Everything It’ll all be about mobile in 2012. Smartphone sales continue to grow, and consumers are increasingly shifting from PC-based web activity to using smartphones. Because of the pervasiveness of mobile devices and the growing sophistication of both native and HTML-based apps, many of the tools [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: June 30, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: June 30, 2011

The National Consumer Council and Involve published a short report on the nine principles of deliberative public engagement. The Brookings Institute has a new report on using social media to reinvigorate engagement. It’s campaign-focused, but it’s insightful assessment of how the intersection between social media and public participation is likely to evolve (and the implications [...]

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Using social media to create solutions

By Ken Snyder | Published: November 1, 2010

On the eve of the mid-term elections, Micah Sifry wrote a nice piece on social media and democracy called Point-and-Click Politics in the WSJ.  The article starts out with some of the negative impacts — the fact that people seem to be talking more than listening and getting more polarized in their political opinions.  Some [...]

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