PowerUp Canada

by engaging a growing list of Canadians in key political moments we hope to hold both Federal and Provincial governments publicly accountable to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting clean energy.

Great! Have you developed a strategy for engagement!

I would suggest that you develop (if you haven’t already) , a coordinated social media and collaboration strategy that will serve to stimulate and sustain dialogue.

This can be accomplished through systematic use of existing social networking platforms like Facebook. Twitter, Linked In etc. as well as through an attempt to build collaborative infrastructure that connects the groups that PowerUp is already working with.... See More

This infrastructure can either be rolled out using existing community infrastructure like http://www.ning.com/ or http://elgg.org/, or can be fully customized using platforms such as http://drupal.com/

The reason that it makes sense to use a collaborative platform to drive dialogue are:

• You can extend your reach far beyond traditional boundaries
• You can drive dialogue and projects with other organizations
• You can focus the attention of thousands (or more) people on singular issues, projects, processes etc.

The essence of this idea is outlined in this paper that I wrote last year: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc4gbgsj_25hqc96xt3

Another interesting option would be to leverage an existing platform.

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (http://cci.mit.edu/¬) is rolling out the Climate Change Collaboratorium (http://www.climatecollaboratorium.org)

My group (http://mudball.net/openkollab/about-us/¬¬) is talking to them in early January to explore how we can collaborating on rolling this out.

It would be cool to engage the PowerUp community in this if you think it makes sense.
Let me know what you think.