by Steven Clift | Mar 23, 2010
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Some say talk is cheap. Others say conversation is cost-effective.

Regardless, Minnesotans engage each other more and more online. For a decade, this interaction was hidden in e-mail exchanges. In recent years with Facebook, engagement among friends and families, while still private, is more "publicized." It feels public to many people.

Now with Twitter and Facebook Fan pages, far more public forms of engagement are being to take hold in a new way just as blogs, web forums, and e-mail lists did and continue to do today. We are now in a sea of interactivity and it is easy to get lost.

Our goal here is to share some examples that help us find our way.

Please join this group and contribute examples - be proud of your small successes or share a failure that from which we can all learn.

When it comes to "digital engagement" and public issues and the civic, government, and business institutions that serve us all, this two-way thing is ... to be honest pretty darn unnerving. My quick answer is too bad, get with it or perish. :-) OK, may be not perish. My nice answer is, learn from others, jump in and be relevant as a convener of digital engagement that matters.

In future posts to this topic we will share examples and links (just write them out like http://e-democracy.org/se - hey, that's my neighborhood where 10%+ of households are interacting everyday). Again, be sure to subscribe to the comments when you post.