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Actual Sessions

• MySociety - convened by Tom Steinberg
  • MySociety Session Notes
  • MySociety Session Review

• Local Issues Forums - convened by Tim Erickson
  • Local Issues Forum Guidebook - FREE PDF, 60+ pages
  • Examples of Neighborhood Forums
    • Local Grown Northfield
    • Cleveland Park Forum in Washington DC - Cleveland Park is an email list for people who live in Cleveland Park and vicinity. It's a way to meet, exchange news, and find out what's happening in the neighborhood. The Cleveland Park Listserv is Washington's most vibrant electronic community, and is the largest neighborhood email list in the country. (6000+ Members)
    • PhillyBlog

• How to Build Consensus Online
  • This session was inspired by this discussion Building Consensus Online

• What should the new president do in his/her first 4 weeks in office?
  • YOUTUBE: Comments on WhiteHouse.Gov

• Large-Scale, Online Dialogue and Deliberation
  • Notes from the session
  • Session Notes
  • Session Review

• Communicating with Congress - convened by Rob Pierson & Will Johnston
  • Communicating with Congress Notes
  • Communicating with Congress Review

• Alternative Voting Systems - convened by David James
  • Alternative Voting Systems Notes
  • Alternative Voting Systems Review - please add...

• Podcasting - convened by Arin Sime
  • Podcasting Notes
  • Podcasting Review

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• CNN/YouTube and beyond: Making (presidential) debates more meaningful. (Tim)
• Large-group asymetrical online dialogue: How to have a good online conversation between one or few representatives/candidates and many thousands of voters/constituents/citizens. (Tim) Also, a discussion of changes being discussed within congress right now to improve the communicative value of email campaigns to Congress (e.g. "topic code").
• How to build consensus online?
• Better engagement experience through games/gaming
• Improving direct democracy: Technological and legal reform opportunities for making the ballot initiative process more communal, more deliberative, and more independent from the effects of money and media. Also, ways that legislators can engage with the public in developing legislation.
• Podcasting and political activism (Arin Sime)
• Security: User/Citizen identification while maintaining appropriate levels of privacy/anomymity
• Policy Commons: is "policy commons" a useful term/concept. if there is a policy commons, what does it include? (Dave Witzel)
• Wiki debate and deliberation. Can wikis be used effectively to improve how debates, arguments, and reasoning are presented? Does Debatepedia.org do this effectively? (Brooks Lindsay, Debatepedia

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