Regionalized Social Media
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 12:39
Over the past several months, I’ve been involved with various regional efforts in the progressive political blogosphere. I keep posting on my own blog, as well as various national blogs, but I also participate in Connecticut’s progressive political blog of record, MyLeftNutmeg. From time to time I visit neighboring regional progressive political blogs of record like BlueMassGroup, Below Boston, Blue Hampshire, Green Mountain Daily all in New England, and blogs like Culture Kitchen in New York, and Blue Jersey in New Jersey.
Yet social media is much more than just progressive political blogs. In New England, the New England News Forum is convening a conference on how changing media is changing civic involvement. It will include journalists, bloggers, educators, people interested in economic development and social issues.
I will be co-leading a session, “From DC courts to NH campaigns: Has blogging gone mainstream media?” I hope that many of my friends from New England regional blogs attend, and participate in discussions of how the broader spectrum of social media interacts in New England for the benefit of us all.
(cross posted at a bunch of the blogs listed above)
NENF Conference
Submitted by David Crowley on Fri, 02/23/2007 - 10:15.I'm looking forward to participating in the conference. We here at Social Capital Inc. have been using technology as a key part of local community building efforts. Most recently, we launched a new community website at http://scidorchester.org offering many social networking tools to community groups and residents. We've also launched a website to foster youth civic engagement across MA at http://massyouth.org
Thank you for stopping by
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 02/23/2007 - 10:27.I'm interested to hear about your efforts to foster youth civic engagement. I look forward to exploring your websites and hopefully meeting in Lowell.