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@ascentum tweets of the week
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Here are some of the Twitter posts and links that we’d like to pass on from this week. You can find us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ascentum

New report from Harvard: From Government 2.0 to Society 2.0 http://bit.ly/vXNvi9 #Gov20 #demopart #publicengmt
Retweet from @participatory: Civic Engagement and Disability: technology to advance the participation of people with disabilities http://bit.ly/uP4ct2 #demopart #edem
New Ascentum Blog: Enaging on GooglePlus: How to start http://bit.ly/taA4S3 #publicengmt #epart #demopart
Retweet from @participatory: Becoming Citizens: Youth E-engagement in Civic and Public Policy http://bit.ly/sALRQy #edem #opengov #demopart
Interesting Blog: Measuring Online Community Engagement http://bit.ly/s0I9M8 #publicengmt #demopart

-Stephan Telka-

Here are just some the Twitter posts and links that we’d like to pass on from this week. You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ascentum.

Quote: Calgary Mayor @nenshi “we make better decisions when we involve people in our decision making”

Retweet: @Healthy_Weights After a break for #elxn41, Canada’s first national dialogue on childhood obesity is back! #healthyweights

News: We agree. Now’s a great time to engage Canadians in a public dialogue on the Senate & ways to make it more effective. http://ow.ly/57BW

@ascentum blog: How to produce same-day reports for in-person dialogues that will seem, to participants, like magic! http://bit.ly/kZtrUy

Resource: Great new guide on use of social media for citizen engagement by @mattleighninger with more than 40 tools! http://bit.ly/lKFtm3 #opengov

Here are just some the Twitter posts and links that we’d like to pass on from this week. You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ascentum.

@ascentum news: Our newest #publicengmt site is live-involving citizens in changes 2 healthcare in SE Ontario http://bit.ly/e8lr7t #epart

@ascentum news: Here in #Belleville for the media launch of our online #engagement project www.southeastlhin.on.ca/HealthCareRoadmap

Engagement: What causes childhood obesity? How do we solve it? Join the conversation! http://bit.ly/hv8MKd #demopart#epart #publicengmt

Resource: FedTalks OpenGov and Citizen Engagement May 11 http://lnkd.in/Hi44sY

Resource: @nicholascharney “Minister Day Launches Open Data Portal” http://bit.ly/fysLro #opendata #gov20

@ascentum tweets of the week
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Here are just some the Twitter posts and links that we’d like to pass on from this week. You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ascentum

Resource: Everyone bookmark this! RT @nonlinear_tweet: RT @DoctorJones: New Canadians stats on social media usage. http://goo.gl/1wx4s

Case Study: “Local Practices in Online Engagement” from US National League of Cities http://bit.ly/fSkIQ4 #municipal #engagement

Fun: Demo of our voting keypads = fun analysis of icebreaker questions on people’s favourite royal couple / gender! http://twitpic.com/3acglf

@Ascentum News: Doing a demo of our voting keypads at GoC with “Who’s your favourite Royal couple?” as an icebreaker. Interested to see results by gender!

Resource: Canadian Medical Ass. Journal: The Need for Public Engagement in Choosing Health Priorities http://bit.ly/fFynmV

Case Study: Ordinary Icelanders vying to draft new constitution http://yhoo.it/eoVkOG

Here are just some the Twitter posts and links that we’d like to pass on from this week. You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ascentum

Ascentum blog: “Fostering International Dialogue and Youth Engagement in Laos” http://bit.ly/9pr3m4

Study: “Online public participation most effective among young people who are already online” http://bit.ly/afEIDd

Resource: For a great explanation of why #PublicEngagement is so important, read The Change Foundation’s Strategic Plan [Ascentum client] http://bit.ly/9pgmng

Blog: “How can new media help civic engagement?” http://bit.ly/cGyMFD (@Afine @leifutne @jdlasica)

Retweet: RT @INgageNetworks: Recommended: “Using Social Media Platforms to Amplify Public Health Messaging” http://j.mp/9X9Ur9 #hcsm

One of Ascentum’s good friends, Brad Rourke, wrote a great piece today on what public officials want to know about new technology.

You can read Brad here.