S. Lake Tahoe trying to connect with residents
South Lake Tahoe is launching SpeakUp SLT, an online community engagement platform that allows citizens to provide feedback and help to prioritize community issues that are most important to them.
SpeakUp SLT will combine the power of social innovation and crowdsourcing with an online forum to prioritize projects and make the best decisions for our community. Citizens can vote on, comment on, and share other citizens’ ideas, as well as their own.
In addition to posting and liking ideas, there are discussion and forum sections on the website where topics and ideas can be posted for community feedback.
The local government is going to listen to the people? Now thats a concept!
More like a pipe dream
I’m glad to learn about SpeakUp SLT.I hope our full time residents as well as our part time residents speak out and get involved by expressing their thoughts and ideas on improving our town.
There may be some bumps in the road but then maybe some good will come of it. We shall see, OLS
Kinda sounds like they are trying to encroach on the comments section of LTN, doesn’t it?
I wonder if they will have the same trolls and paid scribes with hidden agendas..?
As the ‘Indian’ said:
“Me know ‘How’!… Me want to know ‘when’. . .?
Ryan, who would pay anyone to write comments in any of these sections?
It’s irrelevant to talk about ‘hidden agendas’, as most wouldn’t be able to find or do anything about them, anyway – and to what purpose ?. . .
Now maybe we get the chance to see if the City can do any better. . .
I hope the City site has some sort of identification verification system in place to prevent misuse.
Why?
Some commenters here on LTN use an alias or have several different aliases
..and…
Agendas are inherently ‘hidden’ when an alias is used
Transparency is key.
Well the City was supposed to put Timber Cove back up on its website of available beaches. It’s been months and it still hasn’t done so!
(Nor was the public ever given an answer why, and under whose orders was it taken down in the first place?!)
So with that in mind, I wonder what good some ‘new’ effort to connect with us citizens is going to do. When
with a past issue we clearly spoke to the City Council, in person. And they’ve still done nothing!
So whoop de do, there’s a new website! I might believe it has some value if I first saw that our City officials were responsive to those of us who speak to them in person.
What happened to the neighborhood meetings then the all neighborhoods combined meeting?
Now it’s electronic blogs which might work.
I’d say the city gets more input from LTN than anywhere else.
The big question is will the data being presented be censored to “what the people should know instead of all the data” and the surveys be worded to develop predetermined answers. If the answers aren’t what the city wants to hear (like the many paid parking surveys which were overwhelmingly against it) will they be listened to or ignored.
We can hope for lessons learned to be used.
I hope the two new council members listen to the voters better then the two that lost their seats. Also would like an update on Connley beach.