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• Small 'g' governance
  2 Jul 2008 | Jerry Michalski
  What does Jerry mean by "small 'g' governance" and how will we govern ourselves?
• Xigi, Capital Markets, and Social Good
  13 Jun 2008 | Gary A. Bolles
  Xigi.net is "the capital market that invests in good." But, what does that mean?
• Debategraph: What it is and what's next
  11 Jun 2008 | David Price
  What are editable debate maps and how can we use them?
• Collective intelligence, democracy, and global problems
  30 May 2008 | Mark Tovey
  Concerned with "Creating a Prosperous World at Peace" and "Worldchanging Canada." Ask Mark what he does in his free time...
• whereIstand: Citizen reporting meets opinion comparing
  8 May 2008 | Nick Oliva
  How do your opinions compare to Bill O'Reilly or Hillary Clinton? Nick Oliva can tell you. Ask him about how he knows.
• Managing Online Forums
  7 May 2008 | Patrick O'Keefe
  Join Patrick O'Keefe, author of "Managing Online Forums", for a discussion on the challenges and rewards of running online forums.
• The Open Rights Group and digital rights in the UK and around the world
  30 Apr 2008 | Becky Hogge
  Ask Becky about ORG, a UK-based organization that works to preserve rights in the digital age.
• Rebooting America: Ideas for Reimagining our Democracy
  29 Apr 2008 | Allison Fine
  Ask Allison about "Rebooting America" and how you can be included in drafting the future of democracy.
• Using SimCLIM to Support the Vulnerability & Adaptation Assessments within the Second National Communications, National Communications Support Programme (NCSP), UNDP and Global Environment Facility (GEF)
  23 Apr 2008 | Graham Sem, Peter Urich, Richard Warrick, Wei Ye, Xianfu Lu, Yinpeng Li
  The UNDP's National Communications Support Programme (NCSP) convened a panel for this live interview.
• Social media, organizing, and government
  22 Apr 2008 | Suw Charman-Anderson
  Blogging, social media, digital rights, and implications for the public sphere.
• Open Source Voting Systems
  10 Apr 2008 | E. John Sebes, Gregory Miller
  John calls creating an open system for voting a "digital public works" project. What does that mean and what is OSDV doing?
• MySpace: Where Pop Culture Meets Social Activism
  9 Apr 2008 | Heather Mansfield
  How to use MySpace to reach new audiences, recruit supporters, and raise (some) money
• Debatepedia: Where it is, where it is going, and what it all means
  3 Apr 2008 | Brooks Lindsay
  Depatepedia, the "Wikipedia of debate and deliberation," has been running more than a year. Ask Brooks about what he's learned and where its going.
• Building Town Halls Online
  2 Apr 2008 | Steven Clift
  E-Democracy.Org achieves the impact of community meetings more conveniently, less expensively, and by reaching more people. Ask Steven how.
• Megacommunities
  27 Mar 2008 | Chris Kelly, Mark Gerencser
  How leaders of government, business, and non-profits can tackle today's global challenges together.
• Politics Online Conference: Looking back at 2008 and forward to 2009
  26 Mar 2008 | Julie Barko Germany
  The Politics Online Conference sits at the intersection of smart politics, good governance, transparent democracy, and innovative technology. Get Julie's reactions to the 2008 conference and what she's planning for next year.
• E-activism: First things first
  13 Mar 2008 | Jason Lefkowitz
  Things your e-activism program should be doing before you worry about Twitter | MySpace | Second Life | whatever the buzz do jour is. Ask and argue now.
• The Next Traditions of Association 3.0
  26 Feb 2008 | Jeff De Cagna
  A reverence for tradition lives deep inside the DNA of every association. But in a time of genuine paradigm shift in our society, associations cannot afford to honor their heritage at the expense of initiating meaningful innovation. As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it is time for all key association contributors—governing boards, Executive Directors, staff and members—to embrace their shared responsibility for pioneering the "next traditions" our organizations will use as a platform for inventing a more vibrant future.
  
  Join Jeff De Cagna, the association community's leading voice for innovation, for a provocative conversation about what's possible for your organization, and what you can do make the possible real!
• Washington DC's eDemocracyCamp
  25 Feb 2008 | Tim Bonnemann
  Tim answered questions about the first Washington DC EDemocracyCamp -- how it came about, what will happen, how to participate, and dish about what else he is up to. More information about what happened is available at EDemocracyCamp.
• Web 2.0 adoption: Lessons from associations, corporations, project management, and disaster response
  31 Jan 2008 | Dennis D. McDonald
  Dennis answers questions about his thought-leading research around how collaboration tools can and will influence work in associations, corporations, research & development, emergency response, and project management.
• Can the Web Save Lives? NothingButNets.net
  16 Jan 2008 | Shannon Raybold
  Ask Shannon questions about the hugely successful NothingButNets.net campaign as well as other activities of the U.N. Foundation.
• User-centric identity: Platforms, trade-offs, and next steps
  20 Nov 2007 | Bob Blakley
  Bob Blakley of the Burton Group is a leading thinker on the potential and pitfalls of online identity systems.  He talked about a series of interops testing identity services and the status of those services, threats to identity (and society), the identity business model, and the hack of the year.
• User-Centric Identity: An Introduction
  25 Oct 2007 | Kaliya Hamlin
  User-centric identify - OpenID, the Identity Commons, and how to manage user identity. Ask Kaliya to explain.
• Planned Parenthood Online's Web Strategy
  11 Oct 2007 | Jon Platner
  Jon participated in Forum One's recent Web Executive Seminar, Six Steps to a Successful Online Strategy. The presentations from that event are available online. This interview is an opportunity to continue the discussion and include some new voices.
• American Rivers' Redesign Strategy
  17 Sep 2007 | Chas Offutt
  When planning their site redesign, American Rivers wanted to take a unique approach to learning what their audience really wanted. In this interview, we'll learn more about their successful redesign strategy.