January 26, 2009 - Act now to make sure the Iron Range has a presence!
From MPR: There's a new map of Minnesota being prepared and you're invited to participate. It isn't a roadmap. It's a map of the state's broadband or high-speed Internet service. The new map will show where Internet service is poor or speeds are slow. You can help with data collection by testing your Internet connection at http://speedtest.connectedmn.org/. The map makers will cross reference the speed tests to what the providers are reporting. Read the full article or listen to the audio at Minnesota Public Radio.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Dylan Days calls for 2009 writing contest entries
Press Release, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009
HIBBING, Minn. (Jan. 15, 2009) – Dylan Days announces its annual call for poetry, short fiction and one act plays for the Dylan Days Creative Writing Contest. The deadline is March 15, 2009.
For more information, read Aaron Brown's post on "Iron Range arts event calls for writers, poets and playwrights for annual contest"
HIBBING, Minn. (Jan. 15, 2009) – Dylan Days announces its annual call for poetry, short fiction and one act plays for the Dylan Days Creative Writing Contest. The deadline is March 15, 2009.
For more information, read Aaron Brown's post on "Iron Range arts event calls for writers, poets and playwrights for annual contest"
Monday, January 12, 2009
Community Housing Action Plan Workshops
The workshops will all be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with lunch provided.
Three Workshop Locations
Grand Rapids- Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Grand Rapids Public Library 140 NE 2nd St
Hibbing – Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hibbing Public Library 2020 5th Ave East
Virginia- Thursday, January 29, 2009
Mesabi Range Community College room C156
1001 W Chestnut St
The Team is excited to share financial and technical assistance resource information with you and provide an opportunity for your community to develop a vision for housing and establish local housing priorities.
The workshops will highlight:
- Assistance with matching innovative and existing financial resources with new housing development and rehabilitation projects locally.
- Sub-regional housing five-year goals
- Examples of small community housing development implementation
- Group activities to identify local housing priorities and action steps
After the workshop an informal technical assistance session will be available for communities and developers…bring along your project ideas!
Professionals representing the Housing Expeditors, Lenders, Developers, and Planners will be present to discuss you projects and answer questions.
Please invite other community leaders to join you and attend a workshop at one of the listed locations.
If you have not responded already, please RSVP by Tuesday, January 20th so an accurate lunch count and meeting space set-up can be determined. Provide us with:
1. Your Name
2. Organization or entity affiliation
3. The workshop location you'll be attending
4. Email address
5. The information of anyone joining you
Phone: #218-529-7535 or #1-800-232-0707 ext. 535 or email: lsarabia@ardc.org
Hope to see you at one of the workshops,
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Minnesota Voices Online
The Blandin Foundation and E-Democracy.Org have partnered to offer "Minnesota Voices Online," an online forum for Minnesotans using new media technologies to build community – particularly across Greater Minnesota.
Learn more and join from http://e-democracy.org/mnvoices
Are you telling local stories through new medias or using e-tools to engage your local community? If so, this is our space to share advice, tips, tools and compare notes.
"Whether it be through a blog, online forum, or a wiki, using audio, text, photos, video or mapping, more rural Minnesotans are using the Internet to tell the stories of their communities, their communities of interest or of Minnesota itself," said Bernadine Joselyn, director of public policy at the Blandin Foundation. "Minnesota Voices Online is a space for these Internet age communicators to connect to each other, share lessons, ask questions and talk about the topics that most interest them".
The issues raised and topics discussed on Minnesota Voices Online will inform the planning of a Minnesota Rural Voices Unconference, scheduled for April 2009. An "Unconference" is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The theme of the April 2009 unconference is Minnesota Voices Online Unconference: Connecting rural Minnesotans with new media so every place can share its voice in the Internet age.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Armstrong at outreach@e-democracy.org or 218-290-8020.
Learn more and join from http://e-democracy.org/mnvoices
Are you telling local stories through new medias or using e-tools to engage your local community? If so, this is our space to share advice, tips, tools and compare notes.
"Whether it be through a blog, online forum, or a wiki, using audio, text, photos, video or mapping, more rural Minnesotans are using the Internet to tell the stories of their communities, their communities of interest or of Minnesota itself," said Bernadine Joselyn, director of public policy at the Blandin Foundation. "Minnesota Voices Online is a space for these Internet age communicators to connect to each other, share lessons, ask questions and talk about the topics that most interest them".
The issues raised and topics discussed on Minnesota Voices Online will inform the planning of a Minnesota Rural Voices Unconference, scheduled for April 2009. An "Unconference" is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The theme of the April 2009 unconference is Minnesota Voices Online Unconference: Connecting rural Minnesotans with new media so every place can share its voice in the Internet age.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Armstrong at outreach@e-democracy.org or 218-290-8020.
Northfield: A small town with big ideas on citizen journalism
December 02, 2008
Twin Cities Daily Planet
On any given day at the Goodbye Blue Monday coffee shop in downtown Northfield, you will see several people scanning their computers instead of perusing a newspaper, as they nurse their morning coffees. The reason is that Northfield has two citizen journalism blogs, LocallyGrownNorthfield.org and Northfield.org, that are highly popular morning reads in town. With a total population of only 17,150, Northfield has two citizen journalism web sites covering local news, events and activities — Locally Grown, which attracts nearly 7,000 visitors a month, and Northfield.org, with a monthly readership of about 9,400. - Read the Full Article -
Twin Cities Daily Planet
On any given day at the Goodbye Blue Monday coffee shop in downtown Northfield, you will see several people scanning their computers instead of perusing a newspaper, as they nurse their morning coffees. The reason is that Northfield has two citizen journalism blogs, LocallyGrownNorthfield.org and Northfield.org, that are highly popular morning reads in town. With a total population of only 17,150, Northfield has two citizen journalism web sites covering local news, events and activities — Locally Grown, which attracts nearly 7,000 visitors a month, and Northfield.org, with a monthly readership of about 9,400. - Read the Full Article -
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