On Friday, Brian and I did a presentation at the annual RTPnet conference on Blogging and Podcasting. The conference brings together nonprofits and community technology advocates from around North Carolina. Brian’s got the PDF of our presentation up on his blog. All I want to add are these links that I suggest for more information:
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Category: Tech
community application of technology for public benefit
The chat
The live chat session is up on the big screen behind the panel of luminaries (including Markos of http://dailykos.com).
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Tech No Ratty
Now listening to Dave Sifry of http://Technorati.com .
He started with a great clip of a 1950’s newsanchor talking to Univac, and explaining it with olf metaphors… “electronic brain” “face” etc.
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Podcasting
Hear it at http://www.personaldemocracy.com/conference/podcasts
The network in a nutshell
Marty’s (http://network-centricadvocacy.net) presentation was great as usual. I’ve seen it a bunch, but there were a few new slides AND he did it in 15 minutes.
Power to the edges
Now I’m in a session with a big panel about the tools for doing network-centric advocacy.
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PDF gets started
Andrew Rasiej, the founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, says people are too focused on elections instead of politics. Therefore we get sucked into the big-money crass world of elections, instead of working for political change.
Now Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com is speaking. I saw him talk at O’Reilly’s “e-democracy” conference last year… I wonder if he will have anything new to say or the same spiel.
Come with an empty cup
I’m trying to empty my cup so it can be filled up with lots of wisdom in the next few days. I’m headed to The City to attend the Personal Democracy Forum conference on Monday, and the CivicSpace users conference on Tuesday.
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Connect!
OK, here is last week’s presentation on Network-Centric Advocacy to participants in the Open Society Institute’s “Connect US” initiative. You can download the handout version – 1 MB PDF.
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The Dirk Award
Woo, circuit riders hit the big time! The long-standing The Dirk Award (named after the fabulous Dirk Slater) now has it’s own website and is taking nominations.
Who’s your favorite circuit rider?