Celebrate Your Neighbourhood Spirit: Edmonton Community Challenge
May 26, 2010 at 10:00 amLast July I attended an event called the Community Challenge, co-hosted by Edmonton Next Gen and the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues. Its purpose was to bring next-geners together to discuss how to improve and work with community leagues. That event was the first collaboration between the two organizations, and it was pretty successful!
Now NextGen [...]
Thoughts on Connections 2010
May 11, 2010 at 5:15 pmOn three Thursday evenings in April the City of Edmonton hosted an event called Connections 2010, designed to connect residents with City staff to learn about programs, services, and projects. Organized by the Office of Great Neighbourhoods, Connections 2010 brought more than 40 City departments and programs together under one roof.
The first was held on [...]
Edmonton Neighbourhood Census Data
April 7, 2010 at 11:15 amFor a long time I’ve wanted to get the City of Edmonton’s neighbourhood census data in CSV format (or really any usable format other than PDF). Recently, with the help of Laura (and Sandra) at the City’s Election & Census Services department, who I met at the Open City Workshop, I finally got it. And [...]
Tags: apps4edmonton, census, community, data, edmonton, neighbourhoods, open data, population, ShareEdmonton, statistics, yegdataRecap: Community Evening with Jim Diers
November 19, 2009 at 11:15 amLast night Sharon and I attended the West Community Evening with Jim Diers, the second of three events taking place in Edmonton this week (the last one is tonight in the south service area). Jim is a community organizer best known as the former director of the City of Seattle’s Department of Neighbourhoods, a [...]
Tags: community, edmonton, events, great neighbourhoods, jim diers, neighbourhoods
