Online Tools for E-Citizenship

From E-Democracy.Org

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Rondo Workshop Schedule -- A schedule of Monday night workshops at Rondo Library presented by St. Paul E-Democracy.

Learn to use the internet to become more informed and involved with your community.

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Contents 1 SPIF/Issues Forums/Discussion 2 Citizens' Guide to St. Paul/MediaWiki wikis/Community-Built Reference 3 TC Daily Planet/Citizen Journalism/News and Events 4 Blogs/Opinion 5 Social Networking 6 Government/Government-Related 7 Neighborhood/Local 8 Build Your Own 8.1 Supporting Technologies 8.2 See Also

[edit] SPIF/Issues Forums/Discussion

• St. Paul Issues Forum

[edit] Citizens' Guide to St. Paul/MediaWiki wikis/Community-Built Reference

• Citizens' Guide to St. Paul

[edit] TC Daily Planet/Citizen Journalism/News and Events

• Community Reporter
• TC Daily Planet
• Northeast Beat
• New Minnesotans Blog
• Community Calendar
• St. Paul Announcements Forum

[edit] Blogs/Opinion

• Capitol City Musings
• The City Hall Scoop
• Centrisity blog
• St. Paul Real Estate Blog
• Adam's Page
• Independent Digital Talk Radio podcast
• A Democracy
• MN Blue

[edit] Social Networking

• Facebook
• Myspace

[edit] Government/Government-Related

• “insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency
• The City of St. Paul Web Site
• MN Legislature
• St. Paul Public Schools -The following were suggested by Anne Carroll
  • Board meetings, agendas, and contact info is at http://www.spps.org/Board_of_Education.html
  • A great source is the Data Center at http://datacenter.spps.org/, which has an enormous amount of useful information on students, schools, performance, etc., originating from both school district and state sources.
  • I also use this page for info on policies, procedures, and exhibits: http://www.spps.org/POLICIES_AND_RELATED_PROCEDURES_EXHIBITS.
  • And the business office provides tons of budget info at http://www.businessoffice.spps.org/BudgetReport.html as well as other useful information at http://www.businessoffice.spps.org.

[edit] Neighborhood/Local

• Greater Frogtown CDC
• Hamline-Midway district council web site
• Riverview List
  • My block club very recently assembled a combination free site, craigslist, and community bulletin board to serve our West Side bluff neighborhood. It's quite simple and flexible. My block club is independent of the District Council, so we don't have to worry about the commercial aspect. -Guy Western

[edit] Build Your Own

1. Group/mailing list (Google/Yahoo)
2. Wikis, for collaboration or reference(See Outreach tools page)
3. Blog, as a soapbox or newsletter

[edit] Supporting Technologies

1. Podcasting
2. Flickr/Picasa
3. YouTube/video

[edit] See Also

• Community Involvement
• Outreach tools