Posted in Commentary, Guest Bloggers, tagged Civic Entrepreneurship, community problem-solving on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
From Guest Blogger, Lareese Hall
The Community Problem Solving workshop was a first for the Kennedy School – it was the first time teams of participants came to the school to work on a problem specific to our community.
Intense days left little time for much more than wandering back to your room at [...]
Posted in Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, tagged Civic Entrepreneurship, community problem-solving on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Lareese Hall is a student in the Civic Entrepreneurship in Public Institutions course that I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library Information and Sciences. While the rest of the class was on campus for a full-day session (this is a distance ed class that meets in person for one day [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Civic Entrepreneurship, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Technology, tagged civic journalism, e-democracy, e-governance, online deliberation on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and UC Berkeley School of Information are hosting a conference on Online Deliberation. This from the announcement:
At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and take action collaboratively is one [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Forums, Guest Bloggers, Texas Forums Events, Workshops and Seminars on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
On Thursday, October 18th, about 60 teachers, administrators, parents, government officials, and youth gathered at Reagan High School in Austin, TX for a series of three forums on “Too Many Children Left Behind: Closing the Achievement Gap in Central Texas.” The diverse group is gathering on behalf of a diverse Austin Independent School District. Other [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, tagged ACLU, EFF, League of Technical Voters, LOTV, Silona Bonewald on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Silona is currently focused on creating the League of Technical Voters and the Transparent
Federal Project Project. Before this she started her own company, ElecTech that created specialized software for political campaigns, and ran a web consulting business where she was one of the first people to create websites for hire, and to successfully optimize [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
John Fleming will be guest blogging live from the LBJ Library during the All-American Presidential Forums.
John Fleming is a staff member of the Center for African and African American Studies with The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts. He has lived in Austin for over 36 years. John is a [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, tagged , NIF, NIFI, Patty Dineen on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Patty won’t be in the room with us at the LBJ Library, but she’s a dear friend who’s very thoughtful so I’ve invited her to be a guest blogger with us for the Tavis Smiley event tonight.
Patty Dineen has been convening and moderating National Issues Forums (NIF) in Pennsylvania and other states since 1994. She [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Ric Williams is a poet, artist, and yellow dog Democrat whose preferred form of government is compassionate anarchy. What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding is still the question in a world where violent coercion to conformity is the psychotic reflex of so-called values-oriented true believers. He is senior editor at Dalton Publishing and [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, tagged Citizen Journalism, deliberate, democracy, Forums, Presidential Forums, Tavis Smiley, Texas Forums on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Introducing our first two guest bloggers for the Tavis Smiley All-American Presidential Forums Watch Party on September 27.
Christina Shideler currently lives in Austin, Texas after recently spending a year working and living in France, where she learned a deeper love of her own country, language, and international politics. She is a poet, artist, and [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Technology, Virtual Workshops on July 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tonight is the fifth of a twelve part discussion series on Extreme Democracy co-sponsored by the Central Texas World Future Society and Texas Forums, an initiative of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum.
The purpose of these discussions is to explore the principles and technologies of Extreme Democracies, and to explore how these concepts and technologies [...]
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