Hypergene’s Amazoning the news: “What if we told stories on the web the way Amazon sells books? Storytelling on the web demands its own vocabulary and strategies – indeed a whole new way of thinking. The web site that does the best job of telling stories in a web-appropriate way is also the most successful: Amazon.” Hmmm … interesting idea.
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eGov links a la carte
eGovLinks.com “was developed to serve as a resource for anyone interested in Electronic / Digital Government. It is our belief that the benefits of ‘e-Gov’ will be fully realized only through the rapid and easy dissemination of information, meaningful interaction and far-reaching collaboration.” Good resource centre, alas a bit too US-centric.
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Surfing Alone?
The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey Three dozen community foundations, other funders, and the Saguaro Seminar of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University joined together to ask these questions of nearly 30,000 people in the largest-ever survey on the civic engagement of Americans.
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Strange Connections
Software for Information Architects: “It’s rather ironic that one of the toughest challenges in understanding software for information architects involves trying to define meaningful categories for the darned stuff.”
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Growing up?
Content management systems: short-lived satisfaction A recent Forrester Research report suggests the content management community is right to complain about today’s off-the-shelf software. Forrester’s blunt view: current content management systems are “immature”. Perhaps CMS should look at weblog systems?
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Autopoietic organizations in network
This Switch-article by Geri Wittig is interesting.
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Three “Cs” of Public Participation
Papers Portal – Practical Theory, Public Participation, & Community Workshop Civic Discovery and the Three “Cs” of Public Participation: Consultation, Consensus, and Collaboration by Gregg B. Walker.
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Down under
Two Web-based Australian Experiments in Electronic Democracy. Electronic democracy must avoid the pitfalls of direct democracy, which can diminish the necessary information sharing and background debate. Instead, it must offer full interactivity.
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eConsultation on the move
FCW: Governments tap public input – “The problem isn’t with the citizens but with typical meeting formats”. Technology is providing public officials with new ways to solicit public input for transportation and development plans.