So
my friend John and I have been discussing the idea of using the social media to engage our community about local government issues or even being subversive and getting community projects done without engaging the local government (now that would be progress, grassroots community building, hands on, fully accountable, by the community, oops I'm digressing). So we talked about platform, what platform should we use to facilitate e-Government? Should we use a
wiki? some blogs? set up a space using
ning or something? None, of these seemed appealing to me cause they are all a barrier to entry. How do we get people to engage in e-Government and leave them alone to use whatever tool(s) they wanted... If we did this how would we bring the community together... Ahhh, then it struck me lets get started with simple
tagging. And not prescribe a platform, or in other words
the internet is the platform.
So to get started I'm going to propose
two tags and use them as you will, the two tags are;
BOWEGOV and
#BOWEGOV. So how do you use these tags?
- When ever you write something in a wiki, blog, social space like flickr, facebook, etc. embed the BOWEGOV tag into the text, at the bottom of the content or in the associated tagging field.
- Whenever you find something on the web related, or of interest, to Bowen Island Community Government use delicious to tag it. remember to use the BOWEGOV tag.
- And if you use twitter whenever you tweet something about Bowen Island Community Government use the #BOWEGOV hashtag.
This is all you need to remember for now. I will be created some learning resources (OER) for how all this fits together and how it is
ONE of our first steps toward our online Bowen Island Community Government
