My name is Tristan Eclarin, and I’m currently working towards my Masters in Public Administration at the University of Victoria. This semester, I’m working here at Ascentum as a co-op student. I’m excited about the opportunity to learn everything I can about public participation and social media, and I’d like to share some of my first impressions: More..
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Open Government Directions Site
Written by Ascentum Staff on January 27th, 2010
How to use Twitter to make your next in-person dialogue better
Written by Ellis Westwood on January 15th, 2010
At its core, Twitter is a community-building tool. In this blog, we’ll share ways you can build a Twitter community around your in-person dialogue events so they are engaging, create a stock of shared knowledge and make the results more sustainable. More..
Online vs. face-to-face dialogues…
Written by Ascentum Staff on January 8th, 2010
A few important differences to think about
Because we facilitate both face-to-face and online dialogues here at Ascentum, people often ask us “how are they any different?” or “which works best?” More..
Participation and Open Government Web Sites
Written by Ascentum Staff on December 23rd, 2009
Joe Goldman, AmericaSpeaks
Joseph Peters, Ascentum
The recently-released Open Government Directive requires all federal agencies to create an open government web site within 60 days More..
US Government launches the Open Government Directive
Written by Ascentum Staff on December 11th, 2009
… And the next generation in government-public collaboration. More..
Toyota, Community & Public Participation
Written by Ellis Westwood on February 5th, 2010
How the carmaker could be better engaging its community to assess and fix recent safety problems.
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