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Submitted by Andre Yap on 2010, July 31 - 7:09am

Low-Tech Tuesday. August 3, noon at Bru Cafe.

In New Haven we are entering week 3 of our Social Web Task Force. Code is being written and APIs mashed up for an open platform by which people and organizations from all walks of New Haven can converge on common visions and turn them into collective action. But as we said from Day 1, our social web must be equal parts technology and community. So this Tuesday, we invite you to explore the other side of our equation: community - especially insofar as a disproportionate number of otherwise value-adding stakeholders can't be substantively engaged via social media; they're low-tech. 

How can we bring "low-tech" stakeholders into our social web? (note: not into twitter or facebook so much as active participants in our common vision initiatives)

  • Small Businesses
  • Universities
  • Hospitals
  • Government
  • Rotary
  • Civic Groups
  • Advocacy Groups
  • Non-Profits
  • Media
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Investors
  • Educators
  • Tourists
  • Banks
  • Insurance
  • Environmental
  • Faith Based Group

Recall that we first hatched this Task Force with Mayor DeStefano and his staff in connection with Social Web Week CT; it was a pause amid 30 events in 7 days, a celebration of mighty deeds in the prior 100 days, but more so a clarion call to march our social web the next step forward - by broadening our circle of engagement.

So we're not just twitter people talking to twitter people, facebook to facebook - not just civic engagement via social media and technologies, but a true social web with audiences online and off united and working towards common goals.

It is in this spirit that we look forward to seeing each other on Low-Tech Tuesday. See you noon at Bru Cafe.