The 3th Annual Technology, Colleges, and Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference will be held April 15-17. The theme of this year’s conference is “The New Internet: Collaboration, Convergence, Creativity, Contrast , and Challenges”. While TCC is a worldwide online conference designed for university and college practitioners, several of the workshops have application to the online [...]
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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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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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“Democracy is a beautiful idea – government by and for the people. Democracy promises us the freedom to exercise out highest capacities while it protects us from our worst tendencies. In democracy as it ought to be, all adults are free to chime in, to join the conversation on how they should arrange their life [...]
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[This posting first appeared on May 31, 2007 in anticipation of our training session on June 6. Although the date of the training has passed, we are still looking for volunteers. If you are interested, please leave a comment here or e-mail Taylor Willingham.]
On June 6 at 7:00 p.m., (Central) Texas Forums will be conducting [...]
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[On April 2, Texas Forums hosted a workshop for members of the National Issues Forums network on how to use principles of citizen journalism to report the results of their forums. Led by John Doble (Public Agenda) and Marla Crockett (Citizen Journalism expert) about 15-20 people (participants log in and out so it's hard to [...]
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In our virtual workshop tonight, Patty Dineen asked this question:
What would you say in the main purpose of a report?
What would make a report useful for: policymmakers, other members of the public, members of the media?
What would be the very best thin that could happen as a resut of a report about deliberative forums?
How should [...]
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Posted in Virtual Workshops on March 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I recently had the pleasure of meeting former Senator Bill Bradley along with my colleague Silona Bonewald, founder of the League of Technical Voters and the charismatic orchestrator of the 48-hour codeathon that darned near killed me. (But I’m hanging in with her and pleased that our next venture will only be a 24-hour venture!)
As [...]
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Our citizen journalism workshop Reporting on Your Forums has been rescheduled. The new date is April 2 at 7:00 p.m. Central. This workshop will take place in the Texas Forums Virtual Room and will be led by Marla Crockett, trained NIF moderator, veteran public radio and television journalist, and John Doble, seasoned reporter of [...]
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Well, I just got word from John Doble that the Kettering Foundation wants him in Dayton, OH on March 14 when our citizen journalism workshop is scheduled. DRAT!
So…we’ll reschedule for sometime in early April. Hopefully the first week.
I was especially glad to see that we had people registered from all across the country and EVEN [...]
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