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Citizen Media and Online Engagement

A collection of citizen media links in Minnesota. This collection is only a sampling of what is available.

Also if you find more, tag them "mnvoices" using http://del.icio.us, http://del.icio.us/tag/mnvoices

Online News, Citizen Journalism, Blogs

• Locally Grown Northfield
• Twin Cities Daily Planet
• Pelican Rapids 56572 "Placeblog"
• Blue Stem Praire 1st Congressional District Blog
• Is Citizen Media Skipping Small Town America - Steven Clift IdeaLab Post

Citizen Engagement

• What's Up Lawrence (Youth Tel/Web Voice Mail)
• E-Democracy.Org Issue Forums
  • Forums in Action
  • About
  • Example: Winona
• YouTube
  • Bell Museum Minnesota Minute Competition
  • My Minnesota Minute
  • MNMuse (sample DFL political collection)
• EveryBlock.com (Gov data, news, etc. by place in 3 major cities)
  • Example
• MN Homesteading YahooGroup
• Hero Reports

Web 2.0 - The interactive, mixable web

• Wikipedia
  • Fergus Falls
• Twitter - Short message exchange
  • Twitter search for Fergus Falls via Summize
  • Local Twitter for 55987 Winona (demonstrates how 3rd party sites enhance "open" tools)
• Facebook - Social Networking
  • [http://www.facebook.com/s.php?ref=search&q=winona%20minnesota&k=200000010

(Winona groups)]

• • SE MN Young Republicans
  • Winona State Basketball
• Flickr - Photo sharing
  • - Fergus Falls photos
  • Live Flickr Photos - Watch photos as they come in on a world map
• Del.icio.us - Shared bookmarks
  • Bookmarks from Hibbing library
• Popular Mashups