How can I help get news and media outlets to use and cite more meaningful and contextual sources for information?

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virtuous circles & cycles.

soc: philanthropy video 2011

elicit issues, write them down

task people with research

support positive social change

foster citizen to gov communications

create space for dialogue, document the process, iterate in an open fashion

workflow game

start [ ]

what next? [ ]

next? [ ]

before [ ]

end? [ ]

temporal aspects of processes

sequential, independent, concurrent, mixed

government to citizen communication (through media)

Project:

Issues that it will address

Project Owner Description Timeframe Desired Outcomes Sustainability Qualifications Budget Required

Organizational Documents Budgets Project Budgets, Plans, and Timelines Matching Funds?

Logic Model:

Inputs, Our Role, Strategy, What We Do

Civic contextual highlighting in hypertext media

Gov Website Bookmarklet

Send website links to the bookmarklet bookmarklet will process the link to see if and how it relates to government, extracts useful, structured information and links

Idealville

sketch out Idealville.org - an agnostic, well-designed and conceived CivicIdeas site

ruby objects to html?

• ruby from the browser!
• active objects. write and have things turn to tags, like Delicious. this will help noun-ify and object-ify items. maybe, it could turn to Ruby?

create an email address to digest opengov stuff

• http://railspikes.com/2007/6/1/rails-email-processing
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#receiving-emails