Posted in Commentary, social networking, tagged bill bradley, League of Technical Voters, lightning strikes, LOTV, new american story, Texas Forums, transparent federal budget, waaa on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From BlogTalk Radio Lightning Strikes…
Rod Amis, a well-known blogger, social media pundit and Christina Shideler talk with Silona Bonewald of the League of Technical Voters and Taylor Willingham of Texas Forums (an initiative of the LBJ Library) about building an online transparent federal budget. Former Senator and Presidential candidate Bill Bradley who promotes this idea [...]
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Rod Amis sent me a podcast interview with Silona Bonewald, our wonderful partner who founded the League of Technical Voters, the visionary of the Transparent Federal Budget, architect of our “We Are All Actors” weekend August 10-12, and the woman who has dragged me to two code-a-thons.
In this interview conducted by Tom Parish and produced [...]
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Date: July 30, 2007
Time: 7:00p.m. to 8:00 CDT
Where: Texas Forums Virtual Room (See discussion guide for instructions)
Cost: Free
Topic: Politics and Networks
Download discussion guide for:
Description of discussion topics,
Definition of Extreme Democracy,
Links to all reading materials,
Instructions about how to log into the room,
Everything you need to know about this series
Essays for July 30
It’s the Conversation Stupid!: The [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
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Posted in social networking on June 26, 2007 | No Comments »
We are encouraging the participants in our Extreme Democracy discussion group to sign up on Attendr so we can see where everyone is located and get to know each other better. This tool allows you to add people you know to your network and then to map relationships. So far our numbers are small and [...]
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OK, I’ve spent a bit more time with innerTOOB, a new tool for making podcasts interactive I described in the previous post. Now I’ve discovered that we can link to all of podcasts uploaded by a particular user. We can put that link on our home page and people can easily link to ALL of [...]
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I’ve discovered a cool tool for embedding comments and links that allow you to jump to a particular place in a podcast. This is one way to create a discussion about pieces in a podcast or to quickly find specific references within a podcast.
If I’ve done this right, this link will take you to a [...]
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I teach change management for a graduate library school and I live in an online world. How could I not love this? Many thanks to my friend Patty Dineen, editor of the National Issues Forums News from the Net for passing this on to me!
Technorati Tags: libraries
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For the past four months, I have been working with Elaine, the LBJ Library’s Web Designer. Our current content management system is now 18 months old and there are new technologies that we want to incorporate. Elaine is incorporating lots of new toys including Grazr and Web Pasties. We’re in a time crunch because we’ve [...]
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In 2006, Time named “You” the person of the year. The web, “a tool for bringing together the small contributions of million of people and making them matter” made it possible for us to collaborate and build community in new, dynamic and scalable ways.
Power is no longer held by the few. it is possible [...]
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