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Congratulations Chicago New Media Groups!
November 12 Big development. Three foundations, as reported several days ago here in Crain’s Chicago Business, have just awarded $500,000 to 13 Chicago New-Media groups. This is a step forward!...
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“UNDISCOVERED IZ ME: A NEW DISCOVERY”
December 10 Last week our seven-member group emailed a submission to the Knight News Challenge after three months of intense work. Tweaking our archive website today, I came across this writing by a...
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ChicagoWRKS.com: News Media Revolution in a 20 Second Soundbite!
December 12 OK, Chicago, it’s time for Chicago news media to stop moaning and groaning about gangs and drugs in Chicago and start helping Chicagoans DO SOMETHING to solve the problem. This clip was...
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Can the Chicago Tribune’s “Problem Solver” Help Find a Killer?
December 15 The Tribune’s Problem Solver works for individuals. It addresses mundane, day-to-day problems. Well here’s a problem that’s become day-to-day for all too many Chicagoans. So let’s put the...
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From E-Democracy’s Chicago CityCamp, Jan 22-24
January 29 I’ve been waiting all week to do this wrapup of E-Democracy’s pretty amazing CityCamp last weekend for about 100 civic-minded IT folks from some 30 states, with dozens of them doing IT for...
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On Education in Chicago: Gangs and Drugs and a Role for Civic Media
[This post is mainly for readers of the snippet of it in the education Topic of Edemocracy's Chicago Forum. But the darn thing took off on me and got so long I had to put the full text here. Bottom,...
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2012: Time to Tap the Market of the Whole
This piece, “2012: an election year message to Americans and its media owners” makes the essential case for civic media, as we’ve been advancing since the early 1990′s. But get ready, it’s versified....
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Implementing civic media in Chicago
We’re building. We want major media pros to see civic media when they first hear of it not as a shot in the dark but as the harbinger of a dynamic and feasible future for all Chicago newsmedia. For a...
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Mindism: invisible, widespread, pernicious
April 30, 2012. Over the past 100 years America has identified many prejudicial -isms: chauvinism, racisim, sexism, and ageism. But one prejudice is so widespread in America today, and yet so...
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Occupy’s next phase: Dialogue
This from listening to Julian Assange and Occupiers talking in London. Occupy’s next and finest phase is DIALOGUE. Of the 99% and the 1%. Of the rich and the poor, of the governed and the governors. Of...
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Up Next in Chicago: Gangs and Drugs. Will Chicagoans Solve Their Scariest...
Chicago just emerged from a real upsetter of a teachers’ strike. This summer I wrote about gangs and drugs in Chicago. About how to solve the problem. It can be solved. For the past 40 years Chicago...
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Congratulations Chicago New Media Groups!
November 12 Big development. Three foundations, as reported several days ago here in Crain’s Chicago Business, have just awarded $500,000 to 13 Chicago New-Media groups. This is a step forward!...
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Amazing: Four Maps Suggest What the USA Has to Learn about Organization from...
14 March 2014 To thrive in the future, America has much learn from the National Football League, whose masterful use of mainstream and online media has enabled it to establish a dominant and respected...
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