Maurice Chaney is the Media and Communications Specialist for the City of Sacramento. As a champion of Envision Sacramento, he has been involved in every aspect of the site, from content creation to promotion to idea implementation. Sacramento is one of our most engaged MindMixer communities, with more than 1,200 participants, 380 ideas and 880 comments, and conversation is still going strong.

This week's Idea of the Week comes from the residents of Nashville, who are shaping the next quarter century of their community on NashvilleNext.

Popular resident ideas for revitalized alleys have made it into Westerville’s Uptown Plan.

Meg Kelly is a project manager with Biodiversity Project, the creative communications organization that is working with community leaders in the Winnebago Waterways region of Wisconsin on their popular MindMixer site, Weigh In on the Winnebago Waterways. Thanks to a devoted outreach campaign and a steady back-and-forth between site participants and site administrators, the online community has grown to 325 participants.

This week's Idea of the Week comes from Elliott on Imagine Lubbock Together:

“We all know Lubbock's weather is extreme, so why not celebrate it and learn more about it with a weather museum? Texas Tech already has a great college.”

Beverly Thames is a site administrator with the San Mateo County Speakout MindMixer site. Since launching in mid-February, the site has generated more than 90 community ideas, and racked up more than 300 votes on a survey about tax spending.

This week's Idea of the Week comes from the thousands of students participating on TechniCity. They’re submitting what they think should be the theme song of their online course, and we want to share their creativity with you!

As many of you may have seen, today we announced the closing a fundraising round of $4mm. In addition to the new capital resources, we have added some amazing investors that will serve as mentors and motivators. Hopefully this post will serve as an additional resource on what the fundraise means for the company, our product, and our existing clients.

This week's Idea of the Week comes from Ashley on KCPS Forum.

With Google Fiber, improved technology, and so many incredible cultural assets in our city that could warrant a few amazing field trips each year, we have an opportunity to reach out to other KCPS schools to leverage resources across a broader student population, create an exchange of ideas across campuses, and forge relationships among students that will one day attend high school together.