Dispatch From Denver: 'Big Tent' Tech Events
"The Big Tent," a forum at the Democratic National Convention hosted by progressive blog Daily Kos, Progress Now and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, will be home to some interesting technology related conversations this week. Here are a few highlights. For details, click here.
Monday, Aug. 25
Your Tube & the Power of Video Citizen Journalism. Discussion about the power of YouTube, who is doing some of the best video citizen journalism on the web right now, and how you can do it too. Noel Hidalgo, deported Olympic citizen journalist, Epic Fu and others.
Tapping the Creative Community: The Power of Voter Generated Media. Move over mainstream media, it's the voter's turn. From music, videos, paintings, blogs and more, voters are exercising their freedom of speech with a big dash of creatively in this election cycle in ways we've never seen. Hidalgo, Fred Graver and Yosi Sargent.
Tuesday, Aug. 26
Blogging as a Business: Free Tricks to Gain Traffic and Revenue. Share ideas about increasing your traffic and implementing adwords strategies, to using tools to building online networks or mining data on critical government transparency. Google's Peter Greenberger.
Symposium on Media and Democracy. Thoughts on media reform, Q&A. Scheduled to appear: FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and Common Cause CEO Bob Edgar.
Wednesday, Aug. 27
Muckraking 101: How to Rake Muck on Members of Congress with a Few Clicks of Your Mouse. Discussion with Nancy Watzman of the Sunlight Foundation, Center for Responsive Politics Executive Director Sheila Krumholz, Center for Responsive Politics spokesman Massie Ritsch.
Changing the Landscape: the Impact of Social Technology on the 2008 Presidential Election. Facilitator: Chris Hughes, Obama for President
Thursday, Aug. 28
The Future of Progressive Technology. Discussion with April Pederson of Democracy in Action.
Increasing the Power of the Statewide Blogosphere. Discussion with Kenneth Quinnell and Alison Berke Morano of the Florida Progressive Coalition and Bob Neer of the BlueMassGroup.
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