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Building Community Converstations – Embrace On-Line

Building Community Converstations – Embrace On-Line
Andrew Miller, WOSU Commentator

COLUMBUS, OHIO (2008-04-14) Our world shrinks with each and every new technology. As I commentate to you I have a flow of twitter on my cell phone, incoming feedback on my video, audio, photo and text blogs all while I’m linking up coworkers, past employers, and friends. So many voices are longing to be heard, to share; hoping to build the type of community online that we are losing in our physical communities.

Offering people the opportunity to interact online in their time, in their way, with the community is certainly part of building local community. Columbusunderground.com is a popular resource doing just that, unfortunately it is the exception and not the rule. That site provides for a variety of conversation about local issues but does not hold any official decision making power the way conversations Columbus.gov could.

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