2 2009-12-17T00:03:43-08:00 From the "about page":http://www.4info.com/about/: bq. 4INFO is the largest provider of free text message alerts and information in the United States. bq. 4INFO is about bringing you the information you want, when you want it. We are the source for all the best text message content services, delivered to you automatically or upon request. We strive to bring you the highest quality content, formatted for easy reading in text messages. If you're looking for a reliable source of information via SMS, you've found it! bq. 4INFO is a completely free service. We do not sell subscription services and you will see no premium charges on your cell phone bill as a result of using 4INFO. Just remember that your carrier might be charging you for text messages, and those charges apply to texts from 4INFO as well. We make our money through the advertising that is placed on the bottom of our text messages when space is available. 93 4INFO 93 2009-12-17T00:03:43-08:00 http://www.4info.com 1 2 2009-11-15T16:34:07-08:00 From the website: bq. acknowledge is the first complete consultation management solution that enables your organisation to engage effectively with citizens about the subjects they care about, at the time and place that suits them. acknowledge is uniquely designed to help you adopt a consistent corporate approach to engagement, and enables you to manage the whole consultation process – from creating a questionnaire to publishing the results – through a single, easy-to-use web interface. 41 acknowledge 41 2009-11-15T16:34:07-08:00 http://www.rol.co.uk/acknowledge 1 2 2009-11-15T09:12:54-08:00 "Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat_Connect: "Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro (formerly Macromedia Breeze) is software used to create information and general presentations, online training materials, web conferencing, learning modules, and user desktop sharing. The product is entirely Adobe Flash based. All meeting workspaces are organized into 'pods'; with each pod performing a specific role (i.e. chat, whiteboard, note, etc.). The recommended database for backend support is Microsoft SQL Server. The product can be licensed as an installed product, or a hosted product." 37 Adobe Acrobat Connect 37 2009-11-15T09:13:23-08:00 http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/ 3 2 2009-12-10T23:19:39-08:00 According to "Wikipedia"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldfusion: bq. oldFusion is a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. Originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by 2.0 had become a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full Scripting Language. Current versions of ColdFusion, sold by Adobe Systems include advanced features for enterprise integration and development of rich internet applications. ColdFusion primarily competes with PHP and ASP. 80 Adobe ColdFusion 80 2009-12-10T23:20:24-08:00 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion 2 2 2009-11-05T12:06:29-08:00 Amplify was created by Clipmarks, LLC, a New York City based company. The Company's philosophy on information sharing is comprised of three main principles: * People can do a better job than algorithms of filtering the massive amount of information that's available on the web; * Serendipitous discovery is often more compelling than information organized by topic; and * Limiting the length of shared content allows people to learn about more topics than they would otherwise have time or patience for. Their site explains how it works as follows: "Much of the activity on the social web involves people sharing links to articles and blog posts they want to share with others. But what about when there's a specific part of an article you want to discuss? Sharing a link to the entire article won't do the job. With Amplify, you can clip any specific part of what you're reading, add as much commentary as you like and then share a link directly to the clip. Amplify syncs with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Friendfeed, and Delicious so you can keep your friends and followers around the web updated with what you're reading." 27 Amplify 27 2009-11-05T12:06:29-08:00 http://amplify.com 1 2 2009-12-17T10:40:29-08:00 From the website: bq. Apache Roller is a full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. This is the project's homepage, which provides a brief overview of the software and project as well as links to project news, downloads, user documentation, install guide, mailing-lists, bug tracker, wiki and the FAQ. bq. *Overview* bq. Roller is a Java web application that should be able to run on any Java EE server and any relational database. Currently, Roller is best supported on Tomcat and MySQL -- but users have reported success running Roller on Glassfish, Websphere, JBoss, Resin, Geronimo, Derby, PostgresSQL, Oracle, etc.) bq. Here are some of Roller's key features: bq. * Multi-user blogging: can support tens of thousands of users and blogs * Group blogging with three permisson levels (editor, author and limited) * Support for comment moderation and comment spam prevention measures * Bloggers have complete control over blog layout/style via templates * Built-in search engine indexes weblog entry content * Pluggable cache and rendering system * Support for blog clients that support MetaWeblog API * All blogs have entry and comment feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats 95 Apache Roller 95 2009-12-17T10:40:29-08:00 http://roller.apache.org 1 2 2009-12-07T22:30:53-08:00 According to Wikipedia: bq. ArcGIS is a suite consisting of a group of geographic information system (GIS) software products produced by ESRI. At the desktop GIS level, ArcGIS can include: ArcReader, which allows one to view and query maps created with the other Arc products; ArcView, which allows one to view spatial data, create layered maps, and perform basic spatial analysis; ArcEditor which, in addition to the functionality of ArcView, includes more advanced tools for manipulation of shapefiles and geodatabases; or ArcInfo which includes capabilities for data manipulation, editing, and analysis. There are also server-based ArcGIS products, as well as ArcGIS products for PDAs. Extensions can be purchased separately to increase the functionality of ArcGIS. 66 ArcGIS 66 2009-12-07T22:30:53-08:00 http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/ 1 2 2009-12-09T20:51:42-08:00 From the "website":http://bcisive.austhink.com/company: bq. bCisive is produced by Austhink Software, a leader in the development of software that helps people visualize and organize their thoughts. bq. By combining innovative graphical display tools with the latest research on how to make complex thinking more organized and accessible, Austhink’s software helps make everyday problem solving easier and promotes more effective collaboration and communication. 72 bCisive 72 2009-12-09T20:52:11-08:00 http://bcisive.austhink.com 2 2 2009-12-09T20:35:36-08:00 From the blog post announcing the beta version: "Call for beta testers for bCisive Online":http://bcisive.austhink.com/company/news/articles/call-for-beta-testers-for-bcisive-online bq. bCisive Online takes the most popular features of the desktop version and makes them accessible through a web browser. Providing a shared, secure online space, the straightforward software allows you and your collaborators to work and think together in real time, no matter how remote your locations. 71 bCisive Online 71 2009-12-09T20:35:36-08:00 http://bcisive.austhink.com/ 1 2 2009-12-16T09:45:12-08:00 From the about text: bq. BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features. bq. BlogEngine.NET was designed using the current .NET framework and focused on simplicity, ease of extendibility, and innovative features. With BlogEngine.NET, we hope to create the natural blog of choice for all .NET developers world wide. 89 BlogEngine.NET 89 2009-12-16T09:45:43-08:00 http://www.dotnetblogengine.net 2 2 2009-12-18T15:04:24-08:00 According to "Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service): bq. Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The service itself is located at www.blogger.com, and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com. 96 Blogger 96 2009-12-18T15:04:24-08:00 http://www.blogger.com 1 24 2010-03-09T21:05:32-08:00 Budget Allocator is designed to allow the community to participate in difficult budget decisions at a meaningful level. The tool was developed by Bang the Table Pty Ltd in collaboration with clients in the Government sector. Early uptake has been from Local Government. The tool is configured through an easy CMS and allows the user to choose from a range of budget options. Each option can be commented on and has an information box for more details. When the user has set their budget they submit the results. If they are over budget they are told the consequences in terms of taxes, rates etc. 125 Budget Allocator 125 2010-03-09T21:05:32-08:00 www.budgetallocator.com 1 2 2009-12-24T10:49:37-08:00 From the website: bq. Budget Simulator is a customisable online consultation tool from Delib. In the financial year '07-'08, it was used by 10 local authorities including Barnet, Northamptonshire and Maidstone. bq. Budget Simulator works by letting participants: bq. * read background information on specified budget headings before adjusting each budget item up or down; * see the consequences of their allocations on council tax and service areas; * compare their budget to the previous year's actual budget; * submit their proposed budget along with any additional comments and demographic details. 100 Budget Simulator 100 2009-12-24T10:49:37-08:00 http://www.budgetsimulator.com 1 2 2009-11-15T15:39:53-08:00 From the "project":http://citizenscape.org/technology page: bq. CitizenScape is a citizen-driven initiative that will provide tools, applications and services that empower citizens to contribute to legislative and decision-making processes and address the implementation of EU initiated legislation by Local Authorities. CitizenScape will involve key stakeholders, i.e. actors from both civil society and public institutions in a shared environment that is moderated and managed by the Local Authority. 40 CitizenScape 40 2009-11-15T15:39:53-08:00 http://www.citizenscape.org 1 1 2010-01-22T00:02:24-08:00 From the website: bq. CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service that enables grassroots organizations and individual activists to launch MoveOn-like email campaigns and track participation. With support for campaigns in English and Spanish, CitizenSpeak campaigns are easy to set-up and only require a web-browser and basic web-surfing skills to use. bq. With CitizenSpeak users can: bq. * Empower members to easily lobby decision-makers. * Increase awareness by sending decision-makers individually addressed emails. * Extend reach with the Internet’s networking ability. * Learn more about supporters with downloadable reports that detail participant contact info and personal statements. * Grow membership and fundraise with customizable ‘Thank You’ pages that invite participants to donate or join. * Increase website traffic by promoting a web address on a customizable Thank You page. From the "about page":http://citizenspeak.org/node/63: bq. CitizenSpeak was started in 2002 to provide grassroots organizations and local activists with easy-to-use, powerful e-advocacy tools. Since its inception, CitizenSpeak has serviced organizations from all across the country, including formal organizations with long term goals, as well as individuals using CitizenSpeak for one-time issue-oriented actions. bq. In 2005, CitizenSpeak was re-launched on the CivicSpace platform to provide users with a more dynamic service. CivicSpace (formerly DeanSpace) is a growing set of online tools for building political websites based on the Drupal open source content management system. The code that runs CitizenSpeak is available as an open source CivicSpace module at http://www.civicspacelabs.com. We hope that other organizations and developers will use this free and open source software to offer e-advocacy services to their members and communities. bq. The CivicSpace/CitizenSpeak open source module was built by George Hotelling who also implemented the current CitizenSpeak site. The site was designed by Development Seed. bq. CitizenSpeak was co-founded by Jo Lee and Pablo Calamera. Pablo built the first site and provided much of the vision though was only able to participate in the project for a short period of time. Jo continues to run the service with the constant help from the larger progressive non-profit IT community and its commitmant to transparency and building a better world. All in all, CitizenSpeak is a tool that probably falls more into the e-advocacy than the participation category, though it could be used for surfacing feedback as well. 113 CitizenSpeak 113 2010-01-22T00:13:38-08:00 http://citizenspeak.org 3 2 2010-01-18T15:38:47-08:00 From the "about page":http://www.citizing.org/about: bq. CitiZing! is the first ever civic networking platform, providing a space for true collaboration on public problems. bq. *Civic Networking* bq. CitiZing! combines the power of social networking with new decision-making processes focused on collaboration and actionable outcomes. It brings together individuals, organizations, businesses, academics, and government with each other to establish common ground, provide meaningful, clearly-defined roles for each participant, and ultimately elicit better outcomes. This online platform is structured to provide key missing ingredients from today's civic problem-solving arena: action, and not just talk; transparency; the opportunity to learn from one another; and new social connections. It provides citizens with the opportunity to get involved, and decision-makers with the opportunity to harness the perspective and passion of citizens. bq. [...] bq. *What's so different about the process?* bq. CitiZing! helps decision-makers create meaningful and transparent public processes with clearly-defined and influential citizen roles. It also provides a space for citizens to collaborate together and bring forth their concerns and ideas in a productive and effective way. It does this by facilitating the Citizens League unique model of problem-solving, taking place in three phases: problem diagnosis, analysis and conclusion, and implementation. bq. *How does it work?* bq. CitiZing! combines the power of social networking with easy-to-use tools, like surveys, wikis, forums, prioritizers, and stakeholder maps, to provide the toolkit to work through problems collectively. Work can be done either exclusively online or in complement to existing in-person activities. Right now CitiZing! hosts one of the Citizens League's most important projects, which aims to refresh how we think about and solve poverty. We'll be adding more projects soon, and in the future both individuals and organizations will be able to start and run their own projects. 110 CitiZing 110 2010-01-18T15:38:47-08:00 http://www.citizing.org 1 2 2009-09-14T00:38:11-07:00 CivicEvolution is a non-partisan public service that provides tools and support to help citizens organize community projects, brainstorm for new ideas, develop a plan, deliberate proposals and build consensus. 8 CivicEvolution 8 2009-09-14T00:38:11-07:00 http://www.civicevolution.org 1 2 2009-12-07T22:44:01-08:00 co-ment is a Web 2.0 application that allows users to put texts online, submit them to comments and update them in a collaborative way. 68 co-ment 68 2009-12-08T01:23:30-08:00 http://www.sopinspace.com/products/co-ment 3 2 2009-12-03T16:39:57-08:00 From the website: bq. A comments-oriented theme, designed to make it reasonably easy to publish short, 'commentable' documents in a convenient, accessible, degradable way. 59 Commentariat Wordpress Theme 59 2009-12-03T16:39:57-08:00 http://sandbox.dius.gov.uk/code/ 1 2 2009-10-07T23:43:07-07:00 CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. This tool was used to collect public input on the "Digital Britain - Interim Report": http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain/ 12 CommentPress 12 2009-10-07T23:43:07-07:00 http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/ 1