Citizen's League Event

Moments ago I snapped this picture having participated in a Citizen's League event at Minnesota Public Radio. That's Sean Kershaw, the Executive Director, doing the wrap-up with my fellow participants Garrick Van Buren, Tom Swain and Jen Alstad pictured. To my right (and not in the photo) was Jean LeVander King and our discussion host, Jack Uldrich.

Since there were so many participants who'd asked for the URL to this blog, I thought it would be interesting to demonstrate the immediacy and capability of my mobile personal publishing tool, the Palm Treo 700p.

While not the method I'd normally use to create a post, it does illustrate how incredibly easy, simple and fast one enabling tool has become. I can only imagine, say, the next political convention where a multi-author blog is set up for near real-time perspectives unfiltered. Video posted instantly will perhaps be easier, but suffice to say that these communications technologies are accelerating in their efficacy and efficiency and will most certainly influence the civic engagement processes.