Steps on the democratic journey “In truth, given the chance, most people can make rational choices, take tough decisions, balance competing demands and behave decently. Your view of community empowerment boils down to whether you trust people or not.” (tags:…

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction …. “One of the personal learning threads that I’m following is working wikily – and relating this to…

Hazel Blears Blog « Cased Alice Casey of Involve on Hazel Blears’ 7 day blog (tags: alice_casey involve hazel+blears web24gov communitiesincontrol)

We Are Media » home “Join NTEN and nonprofit technology community and help us build a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change…

Political lessons online « Policy and Performance “It’s also interesting to me to watch British political parties try to learn lessons from the American experience. There’s certainly a lot about our process that’s difficult, complicated and expensive. But, of course,…

Public lives: Does the internet know too much about us? – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent Poor Dom! (tags: privacy community web2.0 independent socialmedia reference internet online)

BBC NEWS | UK | Councils launch charm offensive Council chiefs are reminding voters of the work they do, using images including a drunk girl vomiting in the street and a dog fouling a park. (tags: councils localgovuk news communications…

eGov monitor – A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance “The massive use of Web technology to develop and deploy eGovernment services already made the Web a crucial tool for governments.” (tags: article government web web24gov) Innovation Exchange “The…

The demise of ICELE | Delib Blog Gez Smith of Delib on The ICELE debacle (tags: icele edemocracy delib slashgov lgedem)

paulcanning: Ads on local council websites? Paul has concerns about Councils displaying ads on their sites. i’m with him on this one! (tags: ads councils slashgov lgedem egov websites) Online Conference – an IDeA Breakthrough? | John’s Idea IDeA’s John…