Promising Practices in Online Engagement | Public Agenda - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Nov 09
  

  Emily Vickery

  The fact that the Internet is one of the most powerful organizing tools in history is both thrilling and vexing to public engagement practitioners working to create the conditions for more effective public involvement in public life.

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  Christian Grune

  While we focus here on a range of national and local examples, we have organized what follows according to a number of principles that we think are especially salient:
  Allow citizens to set priorities
  
  Use citizens as fact-finders
  
  Generate bipartisan buy-in
  
  Merge online and face-to-face engagement
  
  Help experts and citizens to collaborate
  
  Foster local problem-solving

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  Philippe Scheimann

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• 05 Nov 09
  

  Howard Rheingold

  "n this paper on promising practices in online engagement, we want to take a closer look at a selection of online engagement practices, from high-level national politics to our most immediate public realms, our neighborhoods. The patterns of opinion shaping, dialogue and decision making on each level have changed through the widespread availability of new communication tools. Nonetheless, the differences between scope of engagement and communication tools can be tremendous. At a national level, partisanship strongly affects the political discourse in the general online realm. We will highlight multiple approaches that try to bridge this divide and bring together individuals from all sides in meaningful dialogue.
  
  While we focus here on a range of national and local examples, we have organized what follows according to a number of principles that we think are especially salient:
  
  * Allow citizens to set priorities
  
  * Use citizens as fact-finders
  
  * Generate bipartisan buy-in
  
  * Merge online and face-to-face engagement
  
  * Help experts and citizens to collaborate
  
  * Foster local problem-solving"

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