Comments on: E-Democracy and Online Civic Infrastructure http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1870 Rob Goodspeed's blog Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Urban Planning With Digital Tools - The Goodspeed Update http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1870/comment-page-1#comment-85179 Urban Planning With Digital Tools - The Goodspeed Update Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:07:51 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1870#comment-85179 [...] just as important as deciding who will moderate and resolving conflicts at a public meeting. Some online forums go so far as to require participants use their real names and limit posting to one per day, while [...] [...] just as important as deciding who will moderate and resolving conflicts at a public meeting. Some online forums go so far as to require participants use their real names and limit posting to one per day, while [...]

]]> By: The Goodspeed Update » Technology and Urban Development College Park http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1870/comment-page-1#comment-6206 The Goodspeed Update » Technology and Urban Development College Park Tue, 09 May 2006 15:51:30 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1870#comment-6206 [...] A Forum: If administered well, forums can work to foster inclusive, high-level discussions, but can be difficult to use to engage the majority of community members. I was very impressed by a presentation I saw by the people at the organization e-democracy.org who have lots of experience building high quality civic discussion forums, and even have paid to design some custom software to do it. [...] [...] A Forum: If administered well, forums can work to foster inclusive, high-level discussions, but can be difficult to use to engage the majority of community members. I was very impressed by a presentation I saw by the people at the organization e-democracy.org who have lots of experience building high quality civic discussion forums, and even have paid to design some custom software to do it. [...]

]]> By: Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1870/comment-page-1#comment-5620 Steven Clift's Notes - Democracies Online Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:15:22 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1870#comment-5620 <strong>The Intelligence is in the Network - E-Democracy.Org gathers advice</strong> Last week, E-Democracy.Org gathered about 20 of our supporters (or at least interested parties) to gather input on the future of that organization in Washington, DC. Rob Goodspeed blogged about the event with detailed reflections. He even quoted me ... The Intelligence is in the Network – E-Democracy.Org gathers advice

Last week, E-Democracy.Org gathered about 20 of our supporters (or at least interested parties) to gather input on the future of that organization in Washington, DC.
Rob Goodspeed blogged about the event with detailed reflections. He even quoted me …

]]> By: mjb http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1870/comment-page-1#comment-5553 mjb Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:57:36 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1870#comment-5553 Re: The rules of signing your own name and such. It sounds like the early days of The Well, which operated under "you own your own words." There was more too it, and I bet there are lessons to be learned there. I am a proponent of anonymity but I also value organized, purposeful communities with such policies in the spirit of those proposed and believe that in some fora the best policy is to at least have registered consistent identities so that individual voices are identifiable at the least. Re: The rules of signing your own name and such.

It sounds like the early days of The Well, which operated under “you own your own words.” There was more too it, and I bet there are lessons to be learned there.

I am a proponent of anonymity but I also value organized, purposeful communities with such policies in the spirit of those proposed and believe that in some fora the best policy is to at least have registered consistent identities so that individual voices are identifiable at the least.

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