Over the last weeks I finally found the time to put together a video outlining our eMeetings using the video footage we collected during our community workshops for the Routt County 2030 project.
Today I was invited to host a webinar for the EBM Tools Network talking about our civic engagement work. I boiled down the longer presentation I usually give to leave room for a very interesting Q&A session afterwards.
In my work with PlaceMatters and APA’s Technology Division, I am constantly looking for more effective tools and techniques to engage citizens in land use planning and community building. The continual emergence of innovative GIS and online tools has made the search exciting and rewarding.
This evening my wife, Beth Conover, will appear on a televised panel discussion on "Immigration and Sustainability" aired on Rocky Mountain PBS's Colorado State of Mind, hosted by Greg Dobbs. The panel includes former Gov. Dick Lamm, former Post columnist Diane Carman, and State Rep. Michael Garcia (D-Aurora).
Yahoo just added a community suggestion board feature on its Localsite for two California cities where citizens can post and deliberate about local issues. People rate the suggestions, comment on them, subscribe to posts about particular issues and spread the word by printing flyers, adding events and forwarding posts to neighbors.
The Orton Family Foundation just released a RFP to help them build their Community Almanac - an online mapping platform that helps communities to capture their assets or heart&soul.
