Hello Brighton & Hove, Minneapolis, Newham, St. Paul, and Winona, In September, your participation in our local Issues Forums is being recognized with an honorable/honourable mention from the prestigious Ars Prix Electronia Awards in Linz, Austria. Tim Erickson will be there to receive the recognition for E-Democracy.Org. See us listed under Digital Communities: http://www.aec.at/en/prix/winners2005.asp
We credit this award to the citizens who take the time to participate - whether you read or post - in our unique brand of local forums. Thank you for being part of something unique. (See below to vote for Issues Forums in another award.) We've had a good year in large part due to our expansion into the UK as part of the UK Local e-Democracy National Project. As a volunteer- based initiative, it was a great lesson on the nifty things you can do with a bit of funding. Check them out: * E-Democracy Experience - http://e-democracy.org/experience - Multimedia and video on Issues Forums * Issues Forum Guidebook - http://e-democracy.org/uk - 60 pages of wholesome democratic goodness and other articles * GroupServer - http://e-democracy.org/groupserver - Watch out Minneapolis and Winona, you are about to be upgraded with the rest of our forums on this wizbang open source forum tool that effectively combines e-mail lists and web forums * New Local Forums on GroupServer - Compare your discussions: http://forums.e-democracy.org/brighton-hove/groups/bh/messages http://forums.e-democracy.org/newham/groups/newham-issues/messages http://forums.e-democracy.org/stpaul/groups/stpaul-issues/messages And moving sooner or later ... http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Vote for the Top 10 In other news, Local Issues Forums are among the the 20 finalists along with the former King of Cambodia who is blogging, the BBC Action Network (formerly iCan), JibJab, and others for the "Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics." I nominated Issues Forum and it looks like someone else put my name in the hat, so to vote for Issues Forums, hold your nose and vote for the one with my name next to Local E-Democracy Issues Forums. Vote for your choice to be in the top ten here: http://tinyurl.com/7qktw Also, if you want to help start a new local Issues Forums, join our Liftoff online group: http://forums.e-democracy.org/factory/groups/liftoff Cheers, Steven Clift Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift UK Office Hours - 1pm - 11pm - - T: 0870.340.1266 Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://dowire.org REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
