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So how do we get the broader community to best contribute to this summit and the broader goals? It’s all too easy to setup a blog and get the vocal (geek) minority contributing, but the success of a project like this is impacted by the breadth of ideas, questions and contribution.
What tools can we use, what rules (if any) should we impose, and how do we maximise the diversity of input?
Has anyone seen other countries or projects do something like this that really worked? Tell us about it.
Some starting points:
- YouTube Videos - can we set up a channel.
- Twitter - can we follow a user.
- Events - can we have a SummitCamp?
- Forum - should we add one from here?
- Polls - are they useful?
- Wiki - is there ‘one right answer’ stuff we need to develop.
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I think these ideas are great - in particular use of appropriate media to drive a message and the concept of a SummitCamp. Such a thing could be incredibly useful in developing a submission. Knowing the community here, that message will include ideas relevant to the Summit as well as invitations to involvement.
I will be keen to see just how the Summit Steering Committee (oh dear) will go about selecting the appropriate participants.
The announcement notes that the public will be welcome to submit ideas, but there’s no explanation of the selection process for participants. I think there’s a risk of “names” and business or organisational insiders being invited and not the people the various communities feel might best represent them.
I’m happy to be involved in any way - I’ve set up channels on Bloggerati.com.au so that people can nominate and vote initially on participants but later on subjects of importance? We definitely need the other stuff too
It is ironic that what we really need is a good digital/comms strategy to make sure that we have representation. Know anyone who can help out?
Gavin, while your response is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, you’ve actually hit the mark very strongly. I lamented during the election that good online and communications strategy was sadly missing in both the major parties’ platforms.
I hope that the Summit can take some steps toward rectifying that gap, but I don’t hold out much hope as I suspect that the people who end up on the list of attendees won’t be the people engaging here and thinking about these things in the way this community does.
Excuse me, I’m very much a newbie, yet perhaps we could also benefit from some online collaboration tools?
I’ve started an online collaborative mindmap. If you like to contribute please let me know…
http://2020summit.blogspot.com/
Jonathan Crabtree
Jonathan, great idea, but I think there are some better tools that allow online collaboration and mind mapping in a much easier way.
I’ll chase them down.
Anybody else with a suggestion?
How about MindMeister?
http://www.mindmeister.com/
I’ve already set up a wiki to act as a forum for the 20,699,000 of us that aren’t invited. It’s called Oz Ideas at ozideas.wetpaint.com. It’s free. Anyone can participate (even witout registering), and you can post your own ideas as well as vote on others.
Check it out. If you like it, invite others to come to the Oz Ideas wiki.
The hyper link to the Oz Ideas wiki is http://ozideas.wetpaint.com. We’ve already received a number of good ideas submitted and ready to vote on.
Hi, I have an idea for Mr Kevin Rudd. Maybe it is not a new one. I am a teacher and the literacy skills in our schools are poor. In order to improve them just a little,why don’t we subtitle all the TV programmes for young and old. It will definitely help. Thanks.Regards-Dorota Konszky