Web White & Blue 2000 Outreach Team
Please contact the most appropriate WWB Outreach Team member(s) based on their lead area or contact the whole team at outreach@webwhiteblue.org. Sign up as a WWB Participating site on the main WWB site.
Lead Areas
The WWB Outreach Team is coordinated by Steven Clift of Publicus.Net. Visit About Web White & Blue for more information.Non-Profit, Education, Libraries - Rick Birmingham and Ann Treacy Government, Politics - David Erickson and Corey Davison Commercial, IT Industry, Online Communities - Mick Souder Media - Kevin Featherly
Curriculum
This is a temporary location where teachers
and schools may download the WWB curriculum - Teaching
Students about the Presidential Elections Using Technology and Online Resources,
Version 1.0 (MS Word). Contact Ann Treacy
for further details and be sure to let Ann know if you decide to use it
in full or in part. Thanks.
WWB E-mail: rick@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 612-331-6815
Voice Mail: 877
Lead Areas: Non-Profit, Education, Libraries
Biography:
Rick Birmingham works with schools and
nonprofits to help them better utilize technology. Rick is a former
high school Chinese teacher with recent experience teaching in an elementary
school. Rick is currently working at MAP for Nonprofits as a Technology
Circuit Rider involved with creating and implementing technology plans
to make organizations more effective. Rick spent four years as a
Coordinator of NetDay Minnesota, a nonprofit organization working to wire
Minnesota schools and provide assistance and training to teachers and schools.
Rick is also intimately involved in E-Democracy, and has coordinated several
online gubernatorial debates. Rick is also serving on the Board of
Genesis II, a nonprofit organization empowering women, children and families
to become positive members of the community.
WWB E-mail: steven@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 612-822-8667
Voice Mail: 877-745-2751
Lead Areas: Outreach Coordination
Biography:
Steven Clift is an online strategies consultant
focused on the use of the Internet in democracy, governance, and community.
He seeks to fundamentally improve democracy and citizen participation through
the use of the Internet. From his local community up through global networks
he is changing the world one e-mail at a time. He is an adviser
to the Markle Foundation for their Web White & Blue 2000 online election
information partnership and served as Project Coordinator in 1998. He is
also Board Chair of Minnesota E-Democracy, a non-profit organization which
created the world's first election-oriented web site in 1994 and hosts
ongoing citizen discussions on state and community affairs. A frequent
media commentator, he shares information, news, and advice to over 1000
subscribers via his Democracies Online Newswire service as well as through
his public presentations in seventeen countries over the last four years.
More information and articles can be found at <http://www.publicus.net>.
WWB E-mail: corey@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 877-333-4248 - Toll-free
Voice Mail: 877
Lead Areas: General Assistance - Politics,
Government
Biography:
Corey L. Davison is Assistant National
Field Director of the Concord Coalition, a non-partisan, non-profit organization
dedicated to eliminating federal budget deficits and ensuring Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid are secure for all generations.
In his work for the Concord Coalition, Mr. Davison assists in the coordination of a national public education and grassroots campaign. Mr. Davison gives public speeches to conventions, civic organizations, and high school, college, and graduate student groups and meets with members of Congress to urge support for fiscally responsible votes. As Midwest Regional Director, Mr. Davison oversees the development of grassroots chapters in 10 states and organizes and speaks at public education forums. He was a spokesperson and Concord's coordinator for the Iowa Caucuses for the 2000 presidential campaign. Mr. Davison has appeared throughout the Midwest in newspapers and on television and radio.
Before joining the Concord Coalition in
1996, Mr. Davison worked for three Minnesota Congressmen in Washington,
D.C. and in Minnesota. He has a degree in political science from
Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended the University
of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School for Public Affairs in Minneapolis.
Mr. Davison resides in Chicago, Illinois.
WWB E-mail: david@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 651-631-8296/651-221-1999
Voice Mail: 877-773-8163
Lead Areas: Government, Politics
Biography:
David Erickson is the President/CEO of
E-Strategy,
Inc., an Internet marketing and audience building firm. Mr. Erickson
has been an Internet consultant since 1995. He founded E-Strategy in 1997
to fill a market need for strategic online communications.
Recent E-Strategy projects include targeted outreach to soccer communities for SoccerDocs, Inc., which more than doubled their Web site traffic. He also helped to develop and launch the Twin Cities Latino entertainment guide, VidaNow.com, for the Latino Communications Network.
David has a background in writing and the graphic arts. He has experience in market research, marketing and advertising, and publishing, through positions he held prior to founding E-Strategy.
Erickson's interest in politics and public policy led him in 1998 to launch the popular Web site MN-Politics.com, which E-Strategy co-publishes with its public relations partner, New School Communications. Erickson also serves as the publication's Editor. David is an alumni of the Hubert H. Humphrey Policy Fellows program.
WWB E-mail: kevin@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 612-887-5145
Voice Mail: 877
Lead Areas: Media Sites
Biography:
Kevin Featherly was a founder and former
senior news editor at Channel 4000, the Internet news and information service
of WCCO-TV and WCCO Radio in Minneapolis, which began operation in February
1996. He also helped establish its sister site, Channel 2000, at KCBS-TV
in Los Angeles. Featherly is author of "Guide to Building a Newsroom Web
Site," and served as an adjunct professor of online journalism at the University
of Minnesota. He was a part-time Web editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press'
Web site, the Pioneer Planet in 1999. He has written extensively on new
media as a free-lance writer for publications such as Editor & Publisher,
Online Journalism Review and MediaInfo.com, in addition to numerous Twin
Cities publications like City Pages, Ventures and Corporate Report Minnesota.
He sometimes acts as a new media consultant and lecturer. Kevin cut his
teeth in the news business as a reporter, copy editor, columnist and city
editor at a number of community and daily newspapers in Minnesota, Southern
California and Wisconsin between 1987 and 1996. Kevin is an editor and
correspondent for the Newsbytes News network, a division of Post-Newsweek
Business Information, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Co.
WWB E-mail: mick@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 970-375-0098
Voice Mail: 877
Lead Areas: Commercial, IT Industry, Online
Communities
Biography:
Mick is currently a consultant with Onvoy,
Minnesota's largest Internet service provider. He now telecommutes
from Durango, Colorado. He facilitated the MN-POLITICS discussion
forum for four years and is a founding member of Minnesota E-Democracy.
Mick co-founded Minnesota Citizens Online in 1991. MCO recognized the power of communications technology to impact civic interaction and engaged in activities to facilitate the use of networking tools for public debate and organizing. He has a background in educational technology and distance learning. His Master's Degree project was on the topic of the development, recruitment and use of electronic mail for community network collaboration. Mick recently co-authored a book on E-commerce for state and local government officials.
WWB E-mail: ann@webwhiteblue.org
Telephone: 651-699-4936
Voice Mail: 877
Lead Areas: Education, Libraries, Non-Profits
Biography:
The librarian for the National Service-Learning
Clearinghouse, Ann was recently awarded $100,000 grant from the AOL Foundation
to develop a program that uses service-learning (meaningful community service
combined with academic learning) as a tool to bridge the digital divide
in schools. An experienced librarian, Ann's strength is helping remote
and on-site patrons access the information they need through the Internet
and other proprietary online databases. Outside of the library, Ann works
with schools, nonprofit organizations, and individuals to help them make
the most of technology. Ann has been providing Internet training for six
years, including a semester as the computer teacher at a K-8 grade school.
For four years, Ann worked for a local Internet service provider as liaison
to school and nonprofit customers. Ann has published many articles in the
areas of technology and education, including Surfin'
the 'Net for Kids and Families, an online guide for parents and teachers.