[Winona Online Democracy] Here is more background information that might help provide insight and understanding of some of the underlying issues, goals, motivation, etc. of W.O.D. -- for those interested . . .
-Steve Kranz ------------------ 1. Graphs showing the number of posts (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) between August of 2000 and July of 2001. http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/graphs/index.html 2. Survey Results of W.O.D.'s membership following the online event related to DM&E expansion http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/survey/results.htm (summary) http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/survey/text-results.htm (written comments) Here's the link to the actual event: http://www.winona.org/dmeforum/ 3. A Power Point presentation entitled "21st Century Citizenship . . . Creating Communities of Civic Engagement" that Randy and I have presented to a number of organizations: http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/presentation/ (without the "verbal" portion of this presentation, it might require some explanation . . . let us know if you have questions). 4. A Power Point presentation of the original Community Voices proposal. http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/smi/CommunityVoices.htm (note: this focuses on education issues as the topic, but it was later decided by the steering committee to have "alcohol use in Winona" be the topic) 5. The text of emails that were sent out when W.O.D. was being started to try and recruit the first 100 people to join the discussion. http://www.winona.org/invitation/invitation.html 6. An article I wrote not long after W.O.D. started that was published in "Minnesota Cities Journal" and describes how Winona Online Democracy started: http://www.winona.org/Startup/startup.html 7. Information about "Knowledge Forum" a visual discussion tool we experimented with early on in W.O.D. and hoped would help provide a good structure for community discussion and knowledge creation: http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/Knowledge_Forum/knowledge_forum.html _______________________________________________ This message was posted to Winona Online Democracy All messages must be signed by the senders actual name. No commercial solicitations are allowed on this list. To manage your subscription or view the message archives, please visit http://mapnp.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/winona Any problems or suggestions can be directed to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want help on how to contact elected officials, go to the Contact page at http://www.winonaonlinedemocracy.org
