Brad Rourke

Tag: tech-savvy citizenry

  • Social Media In The Service of Civic Engagement

    Today, Joe Peters of Ascentum and I led our session called “Tech Savvy Citizenry” at the No Better Time conference at the University of New  Hampshire. We had a great turnout and there were people from across the spectrum of practitioners and institutions in the “deliberative democracy” movement. My post this morning described a quick…

  • Thematic Taxonomy Of Social Media Tools

    At the No Better Time conference, my friend Joe Peters and I will be running a session called “Tech Savvy Citizenry.” That could mean a lot of things, but for us it means we are going to talk about different ways of using social media to engage the public. One thing we’ll be doing is…

  • How Blob Marketing Works

    I’ve been fiddling around with social media for a while now. Long before that, I was active online. I had a blog before the word was invented. And I promoted that blog (it was an occasional column about California politics I called Content) through a simple email list that I grew to a couple hundred…

  • My Taxonomy Of Community Participants: The 90-9-1 "Principle" In Person

    Among people who work in, study, and manage online communities, there’s something called the “90-9-1 Principle.” The idea is that in most online communities, 90 percent of the users are audience members, passively reading posts and comments. Nine percent of the users are “editors” editing posts (in wiki-style communities) or adding comments (in blog-style or…

  • Helping Nonprofit Managers To Overcome Fear Of Social Networks

    All over, I see middle management being urged to “get on the social media bandwagon” because they may get left in the dust.  But, often the senior management of the organization is skeptical or downright hostile to the idea. By understanding the fears that are driving this hostility, you might be able to break through.…

  • Community Builder? Read This

    One of my entrepreneur and social web heroes, Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, is among the most open and accessible members of the digerati. He is constantly sharing and praising others. He recently was at a conference where Internet star Chris Pirillo was speaking and the subject turned toward community and community building. Chris had…

  • Thirteen Intermediate Twitter Tips

    Here are some Twitter tips for folks who have been using it for a while. They are not definitive, more my expression of personal style. Chances are, if you are reading this and are yourself a Twitter user, you have an opinion on some of these, so please push back in the comments! If you’re…