[Mpls] Special Event on Mpls Issues - Engaging Minneapolis - Watch for "MCEP" Post

[Steven Clift]

The Minneapolis Issues Forum is about citizen engagement and 
participation.  In the past, we've done online candidate 
conversations and debates. Applying this "event" model to focused 
citizen-to-citizen online events is an exciting opportunity.  Unlike 
most forms of traditional community participation, this forum allows 
us to participate on our own time from anywhere.


Starting this week, the E-Democracy.Org through the Minneapolis 
Issues Forum will be co-hosting a two week conversation about the 
challenge and opportunity for community engagement in Minneapolis. 

This conversation is being organized by the Minneapolis Community 
Engagement Project, an initiative to "jump-start" a policy  
discussion by the council about the commitment to engaging residents 
in Minneapolis. 

We've already noticed a bit of chatter on the initiative.  We are 
interested in promoting an in-depth and open discussion on community 
engagement in Minneapolis along side all of our usual topics of 
conversation.

Every other day a member of the project's consulting team will post a 
question to inspire comments and suggestions.  All of their posts 
will start MCEP in the subject line.  It is our shared hope that many 
of the conversation on the list will continue in the forums at 
http://www.MplsCommunityEngagement.com

E-Democracy.Org is excited to be part of this initiative. We are 
looking forward to a meaningful conversation about the issues   
surrounding how we engage Minneapolis stakeholders.

Steven Clift
Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org

P.S. If a mix of organizations have other issues that they would like 
to turn into organized special events on the Minneapolis list, let us 
know: http://www.e-democracy.org/comments.html
We are making this up as we go, but any effort to bring out dialogue 
and deliberation from multiple perspectives on a local issue would 
make a great candidate for an online special event in the forum.
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