Estonia Cleanup – citizen self-organized 1-day cleanup of an entire country

Localocracy beta site launch – engagement in local elections and issues

Federal Ideascale Dashboard- aggregates, compares levels of public idea generation at different federal agencies.

ChatRoulette – randomized video chat connection between people across the world. Mindchanging. Contemplating potential impact on civic engagement. [WARNING: not always work or kid safe - in the same way that many AOL chats 12 years ago weren't all work or kid safe.]

• Hire great people with professional experience. (We just started recruiting for a new Marketing Manager.)
• Always be testing. (We’ve integrated Google Analytics, but we’re not yet in an analytic-driven, continuous testing mind set.)
• Get signups first. You can get revenue later. (Sign up here!)
• Make sure that all of your emails have a consistent narrative arc.
• Email frequency can go up around specific, time-critical events, without losing your readers

I got more inspiration from the report than just these bullets, but you’ll have to wait to see how our sites change to find out!