Unified Civic Network
The Obama administration should sponsor, in partnership with various public and private entities, the creation of a unified meta-network of state, county and municipal online communities.
The government should not own this network, it should be built as a co-op owned by the citizenry and managed by a non-political, trans-partisan organization. Government entities will be able to participate in an official capacity but not moderate citizen participation.
Contact me if you have questions: michael at socialchord dot com
socialchord
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angelknows
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.Like Obama has said, " Change comes from the Bottom Up not the top down.....amh
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flavoredtara
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this utility will be the best way to make communities work across government, commerce and civic leadership
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socialchord
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Just to be clear. We are diligently working on this on a micro level, but to do this nationally will take more than one company. If we have learned anything over the last 4 years of working on this project, it is that its success is based on partnership and distributed effort.
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mark-mywords
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I've gotten to know Michael and the socialchord team. Their network includes the Obama priority of public record availability (at local levels as well), and more. It includes open-source style public legislative collaboration, professionally edited public journalism, and an interest-based social/organizational networking component that offers generous privacy and control. Very well thought-out!
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socialchord
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PS, you can follow our progress in building this network at http://www.socialchord.com. As soon as we launch our first county in the next week or so, I will post the link here.