100 Ideas Goes Mobile!

Oklahomans with ideas about the state’s future now have another method of submitting ideas to the 100 Ideas Initiative. Beginning today, cell phone users can text message their ideas to “100ideas” at 72648.

All texted ideas will be posted on the web site with other ideas that are submitted directly to the 100 Ideas web site and ideas that have been generated from community “IdeaRaisers.”

“We are trying to solicit as many ideas as possible from people across the state,” said 100 Ideas Executive Director Thad Balkman. “We believe many people will take advantage of this simple way of submitting an idea.”
Balkman said to date they have received nearly 2,000 ideas from citizens throughout the state. “Over the next two months we want to double that number,” said Balkman.

The 100 Ideas Initiative is a non-partisan project designed to solicit the best ideas for Oklahoma’s second century. IdeaRaisers are public meetings designed to encourage input and discussion about those ideas and suggestions. The program was launched in January by Oklahoma House Speaker Lance Cargill.

Balkman said the group plans hold more IdeaRaisers in coming months and accept ideas through October. After that, the group’s advisory board members will meet and begin sifting through the ideas to determine the top 100 that will be published in a book.
“We plan to have the Oklahoma’s 100 Ideas book completed before the next legislative session to serve as a blue print for the legislature and Oklahoma’s future,” Balkman said