E-democracy elsewhere

PHD candidate Kerrill Dunne, U. of Surrey in the UK is coding local government or community/individual forums online. Here is a mega list of those he has marked active. If anyone has the time, it would be great to hear back your impressions on what we can learn from these forums to improve our own work.
Cheers,
Steven Clift
http://trumbullnet.proboards91.com/index.cgi?board=politics
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/forum/boards/viewboard.asp?boardID=7
http://www.sfv.com/forums/topics.cfm?forumid=3
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/boards/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=talkinmilwaukee
http://old.shelbystar.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Local_News
http://forums.speakupwny.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2
http://p209.ezboard.com/fabledartsbathroomwallfrm21
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=5eb106dfe89fd6629c76f79133ce2485
http://p080.ezboard.com/floganvilleonlinefrm37
http://frontier.cincinnati.com/messageboards/default.asp
http://www.jerseycityvibe.com/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=133&func=showcat&catid=10
http://savannah.12.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=11
http://forums.oakridger.com/cgi-bin/bb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=5
http://www.stlouielouie.com/viewforum.php?f=1
http://forums.sptimes.com/Forums/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=21
http://www.paisley.org.uk/active/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,35/task,listcat/catid,6/
http://www2.indystar.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=54
http://www.roanoke.com/messages/messagelistall.aspx?MSID=1
http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/oh/index/opinions/message-boards/boards/mvissues.html
http://www.ontheerie.com/upper/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=0c757f17e9adb7ecaa487eff3aa56f79
http://www.goerie.thinkhost.com/goerie/board/viewforum.php?f=13
http://www.meltononline.co.uk/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=20
http://www.dover-web.co.uk/df/index.asp
http://www.tomatopages.com/folsomforum/index.php?showforum=40
http://forums.greenvilleonline.com/viewforum.php?f=12
http://forums.santacruzsentinel.com/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=4
http://www.dailytidingsforum.com/index.php?s=403eec433a9e30ecf4f0e52c816c837c&showforum=6
http://www.midlothianforum.org.uk/
http://www.almanacnews.com/square/index.php?c=102&d=
http://www.iwight.com/home/forum/Forum.asp?F=14
http://www.oxfordshireforums.co.uk/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=91
http://www.inbrockton.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=38
http://www.burnley-pendle.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?s=0e9748732f54a0ba79281d23305454a0&f=9
http://www.mtpleasantdc.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=36452e41ac7e25a3f03a2ad270a29ce0
http://community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/9531014
http://www.portglasgowonline.com/discuss/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=efa06b780439e7836688e510752f4c14
http://community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/3271021
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/pol/
http://forums.fayettevillenc.com/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=14;hardset=0;start_point=0;DaysPrune=0
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=1e9ed5665e7c7d3c7377f33dc247d7ae&forumid=222
http://www.madison.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=17&sid=77d672644934de6a10a59476705c410a
http://newstimeslive.com/forum/
http://p219.ezboard.com/Politics/fcapeannonlinefrm20
http://p083.ezboard.com/Toronto-Issues/ftorontoskyscraperforumfrm7
http://forums.thestarpress.com/viewforum.php?f=26&sid=25d51e07a5e3ad4d5b3f1fc4a7f1a4f7
http://forums.lubbockonline.com/cgi-bin/bb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=2
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=1
http://community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/9371021
http://broadmoorimprovement.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=7a6422f9f2453f7d365c27abb454b58e
http://www.gibraltarnewsonline.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=2
http://www.highdesert.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10&sid=d60b372e3ce10c9daf83f87c6e597785
http://www.clintonmass.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=22
http://www.washington-heights.us/yabbse/index.php?board=3.0
http://lakewoodbuzz.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/frm/f/33460472
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/bb/index.php?s=500942c230b34b3f0ab23c797aa8706f&showforum=21
http://kildare.ie/discussion/display_forum_topics.asp?ForumID=5
http://www.neforum2.co.uk/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=2c5ebf04ec92036b20daa994148ff797&board=10.0
http://www.forum49.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=33&sid=e5a42f5e20e61f02e155b7ecd845a5e0
http://www.bloomington.org/bloomingtonwebcafe/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=d0ac04c817dd011ed6a6556c7a2332b3
http://e-democracy.org/winona/
http://forums.e-democracy.org/stpaul/groups/stpaul-issues/messages/view_threads
http://forums.e-democracy.org/Roseville/groups/roseville-issues
http://forums.e-democracy.org/minneapolis/groups/mpls/messages/view_threads
http://northfield.org/issueslist
http://www.ecommunitycouncil.org.uk/cambusbarron/
http://www.ecommunitycouncil.org.uk/bannockburn/
http://p094.ezboard.com/The-Talk-Around-Town/frenovocommunitythetalkaroundtown
http://p212.ezboard.com/Local-Issues/fwarringtonsspeakfreelyfrm7
http://p097.ezboard.com/San-Francisco-discussion/fsfdebatefrm2
http://p221.ezboard.com/bwaterboromaine
http://p103.ezboard.com/Debate-Lounge/fsceniccityfrm23
http://p216.ezboard.com/San-Francisco-Local-Discussion-Threads-and-selected-US-and-International-issues/fsfpolifacticsfrm9
http://p220.ezboard.com/Western-631-Huntington-Babylon-and-Smithtown/f631politicsfrm45
http://www.gloucester.gov.uk/haveyoursay/
http://www.swale.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9
http://kildare.ie/countycouncil/Forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=4
http://www.e-democracy.org/newham/
http://forums.e-democracy.org/brighton-hove/groups/bh
Steven Clift
Ericsson, Minneapolis
Info about Steven Clift: http://forums.e-democracy.org/contacts/stevenclift
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