Greetings, I wanted to let you know we've published our 60 page evaluation report on inclusive online community engagement in lower income, highly diverse, high immigrant neighborhoods. The Inclusive Social Media pilot project was funded by the Ford Foundation.
Read the executive summary and full report here: http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/1420 RSVP for an online event/teleconference on May 16 for a Q and A discussion here: http://inclusivesocialmedia.eventbrite.com Also, we've just launched a "take it to scale" project in St. Paul with major funding from the Knight Foundation! Our goal is to _inclusively_ engage 10,000 residents ~daily across a network of online neighbors forums. By inclusion we mean forums that reflect the local racial and ethnic diversity in each of the 16 neighborhood forums we host led by local volunteers. Reaching lower income residents is important as well. St. Paul is 44% people of color. It is all about creating _bridges_ among diverse neighbors. http://beneighbors.org - Public outreach http://e-democracy.org/inclusion - Dry project info, grant details http://e-democracy.org/se - Example Minneapolis forum with about 1,000 members or 20%+ of households Part of the three year grant also includes lesson sharing. We are planning future webinars and exploring e-training options for 2013. While we will host neighbors forums based on volunteer capacity in communities beyond the 17 we currently serve (US, UK, and NZ currently), we see sharing lessons for independent adaptation as key to our mission. Our "free" option for peer to peer knowledge sharing that is open now is the Locals Online community of practice. I encourage you to join us if you either host a local online group, blog, social net, etc. or if you'd like to start one and have access to 300+ of your peers. http://e-democracy.org/locals We also host the global Digital Inclusion Network online community which is related: http://e-democracy.org/di We look forward to your input and questions on the report. ** Please reply to: cl...@e-democracy.org Sincerely, Steven Clift Founder and Executive Director, E-Democracy.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org