New (and Old) Reports on Citizen Engagement and Online Strategy

♦ October 2, 2009 ♦ 1 Comment

The General Services Administration just released a new report “Engaging Citizens in Government.” The report assembles the thoughts of 24 IT leaders from several nations, states, and local government agencies, as well as other thought leaders. Among them is a piece from White House Director of Citizen Participation Katie Stanton, who played an instrumental role in President Obama’s online townhall earlier this year.

And while I am on the topic of interesting, downloadable reports and guides related to online politics and advocacy, here are a few more that I think are worth a read:

Delany, Colin. 2009. Online Politics 101.

Stein, Michael & Katrin Verclas. 2008. Using Mobile Phones in Advocacy Campaigns.

DigiActive. 2009. The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism.

Gharbia, Sami Ben. 2008. Cross-posting for Advocacy: An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration. Global Voices Advocacy.

DigiActive. 2008. A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism.

Germany, Julie Barko, ed. 2008. Best Practices for Political Advertising Online. Washington, DC: Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet.

Karpf, David. 2008. Measuring Influence in the Political Blogosphere: Who’s Winning and How Can We Tell? Politics and Technology Review.