LiveJournal is opening nominations for its first ever Advisory Board user elections. LiveJournal, Inc. has allocated two positions on the Board for elected representatives from its user base, a unique effort that is seen as giving users a role in developing its service.
The elected users will join a distinguished group of social media influencers on the current Advisory Board: Danah Boyd, Esther Dyson, Brad Fitzpatrick and Lawrence Lessig.
Users will be elected for an annual term, with the right to stand for re-election the following year. The Advisory Board will hold quarterly meetings via conference call and meet at least once a year to consider the challenges and opportunities for the LiveJournal community. The management of LiveJournal has formally committed to listen and engage with the board members and reflect their discussions in the executive decisions that they make.
It’s a good effort from LiveJournal and we can only hope that this would serve as precedent to other groups.
Originally posted on May 5, 2008 @ 3:23 pm