An interesting piece on Mashable about ways websites develop and maintain “online communities”. While I find the term, “online communities”, oxymoronic, there are some helpful tips here for cities and municipalities looking to engage their publics online (or offline, for that matter). To wit:
1. “Make it easy to participate”: engagement with the government - especially [...]
In coordination with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), California Forward has just released the 2009 California Civic Health Index.
CSC’s Pete Peterson wrote one of the chapters of the study and contributed this recent op-ed to the Sacramento Bee. In general, the California results mirror the national numbers in that the economic decline of the [...]
CSC’s executive director, Pete Peterson, recently posted the essay, “More than Zero“, on City Journal Online. In the piece, Peterson, uses research from the recently released Civic Health Index (from the National Conference on Citizenship) to show that, contrary to stereotypes, the generation known as “Generation X” demonstrates significant levels of public participation in actions [...]