Emerging research on Facebook-Native Politicians - Live Hangout Q+A Dec 3/4
Presentation video, slides, blog posts, live Hangout event RSVPs for Dec 3/4 virtual Q and A: http://bit.ly/facebookpoliticians I have a completely fresh case study to share on what I am calling "Facebook-Native Politicians." Imagine if the new majority elected to your city council were on Facebook from their teen or college days - a decade of engaging socially online before becoming an elected representative. This is the new wired Minneapolis story. Seven new council members, elected at an average age of 33. This is a Facebook story and NOT a Twitter story. My 30 minute presentation starts just 5 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PPLTMXPQ1 RSVP for the Q+A Hangouts: Dec 3 Europe/Americas: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cfs2ijq9gb3e2e5ug8cruelvcqg Dec 3 Americas Evening/Dec 4 Asia Pacific https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c2kvr2vm6b22pemu4s6qcaeribo Discuss/share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1559727457592178/ Huge thanks to Involve and the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster for hosting this event in London last month. The UK local councillors and Dan Jellinek provide some great context and contrasting views in the full webcast (which is nicely edited). If you want to see further research and lesson sharing on this topic, please get in touch: clift@e-democracy.org - I'd like to build this out further and build a bridge across practitioner and academic worlds. Finally, if you know of other "Facebook Native Politicians" who engage constituents online, please introduce them to me so I can invite them to connect with their peers around the world: clift@e-democracy.org Sincerely, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org P.S. I view these Facebook engaged mostly local elected representatives as a crucial bridge for the open government movement. Most of them haven't heard much about "open government data" etc., but they have a digital openness and engagement instinct. My thought is that we should aggressively seek to connect with them "where they are" online in order to introduce them to the wider world of open government. This is why ironically, an engagement space on a closed system like Facebook Groups is needed: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ
I look forward to our fun live exchanges this week on Facebook-Native Politicians via Google Hangout. Let's hare real stories and research from the leading edge of the emerging "engagement generation" as they get elected to public office. CORRECTION - The short presentation video to watch ahead of time was moved to (watch from 5:00 for 30 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbG8NWnIO4 RSVP/local time details here: Wed Dec 3 Europe/Americas: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cfs2ijq9gb3e2e5ug8cruelvcqg Wed Dec 3 Americas Evening/Thu Dec 4 Asia Pacific https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c2kvr2vm6b22pemu4s6qcaeribo All the details: http://bit.ly/facebookpoliticians Cheers, Steve P.S. If you'd like to see more open knowledge sharing and convening from E-Democracy, please consider us on #GivingTuesday tomorrow! http://e-democracy.org/donate Your support is more vital than ever. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Steven Clift <slc@publicus.net> wrote:
Presentation video, slides, blog posts, live Hangout event RSVPs for Dec 3/4 virtual Q and A:
http://bit.ly/facebookpoliticians
I have a completely fresh case study to share on what I am calling "Facebook-Native Politicians."
Imagine if the new majority elected to your city council were on Facebook from their teen or college days - a decade of engaging socially online before becoming an elected representative.
This is the new wired Minneapolis story. Seven new council members, elected at an average age of 33. This is a Facebook story and NOT a Twitter story.
My 30 minute presentation starts just 5 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PPLTMXPQ1
RSVP for the Q+A Hangouts:
Dec 3 Europe/Americas: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cfs2ijq9gb3e2e5ug8cruelvcqg
Dec 3 Americas Evening/Dec 4 Asia Pacific https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c2kvr2vm6b22pemu4s6qcaeribo
Discuss/share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1559727457592178/
Huge thanks to Involve and the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster for hosting this event in London last month. The UK local councillors and Dan Jellinek provide some great context and contrasting views in the full webcast (which is nicely edited).
If you want to see further research and lesson sharing on this topic, please get in touch: clift@e-democracy.org - I'd like to build this out further and build a bridge across practitioner and academic worlds.
Finally, if you know of other "Facebook Native Politicians" who engage constituents online, please introduce them to me so I can invite them to connect with their peers around the world: clift@e-democracy.org
Sincerely, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org
P.S. I view these Facebook engaged mostly local elected representatives as a crucial bridge for the open government movement. Most of them haven't heard much about "open government data" etc., but they have a digital openness and engagement instinct. My thought is that we should aggressively seek to connect with them "where they are" online in order to introduce them to the wider world of open government. This is why ironically, an engagement space on a closed system like Facebook Groups is needed: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ
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