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Posted by Carmen Kazakoff Lane on May 04, 2006; 8:27pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canada-Census-on-line-tp525p554.html

Hello:

Just a brief comment.

As this group is new and in the throngs of developing Mission Statements,
Goals and Objective, etc, I thought that it might be useful if it adopted a
Wiki that people could post to.  They are great collaborative working tools
enabling people to jointly create and edit documents. (p.s. I just noticed
on another post that the Ettiquette for the group is on a Wiki ... so it
would appear that other issues could be worked on there.)

A Blog could also be developed for the group. It would contain information
about the goals and objectives, as well as general discussion areas that
people could post comments to - and maintain the threaded discussion.
Eventually, it would be a marketing tool that you could point others towards
when you seek to create public awareness of issues related to access of
information.

Both blogs and wikis are available in Open Source - so the cost of creating
on is the cost of time.  The benefits are in marketing, collaborative
undertakings, organizing issues around which debates occur, and archiving
debates.

I also agree with a previous posting  - it is very important that the group
presents itself as reasonable and not hotheads.  Other organizations - like
Moveon.org - do a great job of creating public awareness of social issues in
a manner that is presented as very professional and very effective. See
their site at:

http://www.moveon.org/


Carmen Kazakoff-Lane