I’ve started working with Director Susan Waughtal and the people at RNeighbors (also known as the Rochester Neighborhood Resource Center) to create a citizen/community journalism website called RVoices in Rochester, MN.
It’s intended to be similar to what we’ve created here in my hometown of Northfield, called Northfield.org (operated by the 501c3 non-profit, Northfield Citizens Online (NCO).
There’s nothing there yet, as all we’ve done is install CivicSpace, “… a free open-source software platform for grassroots organizing and civic activity. It allows individuals and organizations to build online communities that communicate effectively, act collectively, and coordinate coherently with a network of other related organizations and communities.” NCO is actively working on installing this platform on N.org as well.
