Personal Democracy Forum 2008 Sessions

Full agenda coming soon, please take a peak at the program:

Session Grid

Day 1
Day 2

Time	Session Name	Location	Attending?
8:30 AM Ends: 8:40 AM	Welcome Remarks » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
8:40 AM Ends: 9:00 AM	Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
9:00 AM Ends: 10:00 AM	A Conversation with Elizabeth Edwards » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
10:10 AM Ends: 10:45 AM	The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
10:30 AM Ends: 11:10 AM	A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles? » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
11:10 AM Ends: 11:25 AM	Visualizing the Political Blogosphere » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
11:25 AM Ends: 11:40 AM	When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
11:40 AM Ends: 12:20 PM	A New Activist System? The Changing Role of the Net-roots and the Right-roots » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
12:20 PM Ends: 12:45 PM	Politics As If Everybody Can Participate » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	ElectionMall presents: On-Demand Politics: 2.0 » Add your review	Breakout Room C	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Yahoo presents: Advertising Pros share tips to help non profit and advocacy orgs build communities through online advertising and marketing. Yahoo presents: Advertising Pros share tips to help non profit and advocacy orgs build communities through online advertising and marketing. » Add your review	Breakout Room D	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Covering the "Click-ocracy": Tracking the Internet's Impact on Politics and Journalism Four top online political reporters will discuss how they view the net's role in politics 2008, how they use the web to do their work, and whether there is something distinct th... » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Building and Using the World LIVE Web The web is itself becoming a platform for robust, user-generated LIVE media. New tools are making it incredibly easy for anyone to live-blog anything, using everything up to and... » Add your review	The Allen Room	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Making "ONFFline" magic: Converting online "friends" to on the ground activists (Skills track) The line between online and offline participation in politics is disappearing, hence the new term "ONFFline," coined by techPresident's Josh Levy. On this panel, four experts in... » Add your review	Breakout Room A	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Data Geeks Unite! Building the new tools for getting out the vote, getting out the corruption, and going hyper-local Four experts in web services and data aggregation will showcase their offerings, ranging from sophisticated new voter file tools to services mashing up all kinds of data on infl... » Add your review	Breakout Room B	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	AOL Presents: Beyond Blogs: Online Political Advertising in 2008 » Add your review	Breakout Room D	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Reinventing political media (the rise of semi-pro journalism?) You don't need a license to practice journalism, and more and more non-professionals are making news. In the process, gatekeepers are disappearing and a much more vibrant and me... » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Building a Better Debate, With and Without TV This session will explore new approaches to the candidate debate or forum format, and discuss how best to marry new technologies to the older ones. What are the realities of put... » Add your review	The Allen Room	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	The internet fundraising frontier: How to generate a "money bomb" Hear from three top experts in different aspects of internet-powered fundraising. In recent years, we're seeing more self-organizing "money-bombs," be they the ones Ron Paul's s... » Add your review	Breakout Room A	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Mobile politics: How to unblock the future Is mobile about to finally take off in the U.S. in politics and advocacy? What obstacles are holding mobile politics back? This panel of experts will cover: * State of the tec... » Add your review	Breakout Room B	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Profiles in Anti-Competition What allowed a guy named Craig who had a list to transform it into one of the biggest sites on the Internet? What allowed 2 guys with a garage as a work space to build one of th... » Add your review	Breakout Room C	Log in
5:00 PM Ends: 6:15 PM	Closing Plenary: Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What Worked, What Didn't » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in

Time

Session Name

Track

Location

Attending?

8:30 AM

Ends: 8:40 AM

Welcome Remarks

Rose Theater

8:40 AM

Ends: 9:00 AM

Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential

Rose Theater

9:00 AM

Ends: 10:00 AM

A Conversation with Elizabeth Edwards

Rose Theater

10:10 AM

Ends: 10:45 AM

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

Rose Theater

10:30 AM

Ends: 11:10 AM

A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles?

Rose Theater

11:10 AM

Ends: 11:25 AM

Visualizing the Political Blogosphere

Rose Theater

11:25 AM

Ends: 11:40 AM

When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics

Rose Theater

11:40 AM

Ends: 12:20 PM

A New Activist System? The Changing Role of the Net-roots and the Right-roots

Rose Theater

12:20 PM

Ends: 12:45 PM

Politics As If Everybody Can Participate

Rose Theater

2:00 PM

Ends: 3:15 PM

ElectionMall presents: On-Demand Politics: 2.0

Breakout Room C

2:00 PM

Ends: 3:15 PM

Yahoo presents: Advertising Pros share tips to help non profit and advocacy orgs build communities through online advertising and marketing.
Yahoo presents: Advertising Pros share tips to help non profit and advocacy orgs build communities through online advertising and marketing.

Breakout Room D

2:00 PM

Ends: 3:15 PM

Covering the "Click-ocracy": Tracking the Internet's Impact on Politics and Journalism
Four top online political reporters will discuss how they view the net's role in politics 2008, how they use the web to do their work, and whether there is something distinct th...

Rose Theater

2:00 PM

Ends: 3:15 PM

Building and Using the World LIVE Web
The web is itself becoming a platform for robust, user-generated LIVE media. New tools are making it incredibly easy for anyone to live-blog anything, using everything up to and...

The Allen Room

2:00 PM

Ends: 3:15 PM

Making "ONFFline" magic: Converting online "friends" to on the ground activists (Skills track)
The line between online and offline participation in politics is disappearing, hence the new term "ONFFline," coined by techPresident's Josh Levy. On this panel, four experts in...

Breakout Room A

2:00 PM

Ends: 3:15 PM

Data Geeks Unite! Building the new tools for getting out the vote, getting out the corruption, and going hyper-local
Four experts in web services and data aggregation will showcase their offerings, ranging from sophisticated new voter file tools to services mashing up all kinds of data on infl...

Breakout Room B

3:45 PM

Ends: 5:00 PM

AOL Presents: Beyond Blogs: Online Political Advertising in 2008

Breakout Room D

3:45 PM

Ends: 5:00 PM

Reinventing political media (the rise of semi-pro journalism?)
You don't need a license to practice journalism, and more and more non-professionals are making news. In the process, gatekeepers are disappearing and a much more vibrant and me...

Rose Theater

3:45 PM

Ends: 5:00 PM

Building a Better Debate, With and Without TV
This session will explore new approaches to the candidate debate or forum format, and discuss how best to marry new technologies to the older ones. What are the realities of put...

The Allen Room

3:45 PM

Ends: 5:00 PM

The internet fundraising frontier: How to generate a "money bomb"
Hear from three top experts in different aspects of internet-powered fundraising. In recent years, we're seeing more self-organizing "money-bombs," be they the ones Ron Paul's s...

Breakout Room A

3:45 PM

Ends: 5:00 PM

Mobile politics: How to unblock the future
Is mobile about to finally take off in the U.S. in politics and advocacy? What obstacles are holding mobile politics back? This panel of experts will cover: * State of the tec...

Breakout Room B

3:45 PM

Ends: 5:00 PM

Profiles in Anti-Competition
What allowed a guy named Craig who had a list to transform it into one of the biggest sites on the Internet? What allowed 2 guys with a garage as a work space to build one of th...

Breakout Room C

5:00 PM

Ends: 6:15 PM

Closing Plenary: Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What Worked, What Didn't

Rose Theater

* = Conference registrants only.

Time	Session Name	Location	Attending?
8:30 AM Ends: 8:45 AM	The New Renaissance » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
8:45 AM Ends: 9:00 AM	The Rise of a Civic Generation » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
9:00 AM Ends: 9:30 AM	Open Data, Open Government » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
9:30 AM Ends: 10:10 AM	The Power of Information to Transform Government » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
10:10 AM Ends: 10:45 AM	The Future of the Internet: Towards Civic Technologies » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
11:15 AM Ends: 12:15 PM	Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
12:15 PM Ends: 12:45 PM	Hyperpolitics: What Happens When We Are All Connected » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	National Tech Policy: Which Way Forward? » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Mastering the new world of online political video (Skills track) Somewhere between expensive and highly-produced commercial video and the millions of home-made videos people post of their babies lies an enormous opportunity for online politic... » Add your review	The Allen Room	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Design Principles for Online Democracy: Connecting Government and Constituents in the Internet Age Why is it that the best designed government web portals are for collecting your taxes, and the worst ones are for gathering your input? Maybe it's time for Government 2.0. This ... » Add your review	Breakout Room A	Log in
2:00 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	All Politics is Local (And the Blogs are Proving It) (Big Fish in Small Fishbowls) While national political blogs get all the attention, local bloggers are actually where the action is. All over the country, local blogs are shaking up the local scene, covering... » Add your review	Breakout Room B	Log in
2:15 PM Ends: 3:15 PM	Campaign-Blogger Relations (Best Practices) » Add your review	Breakout Room C	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Think-Tanking 2.0: Moving Ideas and Policy in a Networked Age The world of ideas and policy-mongering is changing when everyone, in effect, owns their own printing press and the power of old media gatekeepers is diminished, if not complete... » Add your review	Breakout Room C	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Ideas that Spread Win: Going Viral Online We may be drenched in information and bombarded by messages, but there's no question that ideas that spread themselves tend to win. Our panel of experts will tackle these questi... » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	The Cross-Partisan Movement for Political Transparency and Watchdogging Government from Below In the past few years, a strange bedfellow coalition of political bloggers from left to right, along with good government groups, have forged new alliances to open government to... » Add your review	Breakout Room A	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Idea Market We're pleased to be bringing back the "Idea Market" session to PdF this year, as last year it was one of the conference highlights. It's basically a "flea market" for ideas. Pic... » Add your review	The Allen Room	Log in
3:45 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	New ways of making (and spending) money online More people are spending more time going online to find out political information, and yet online political advertising lags behind traditional media. Where should you be spendi... » Add your review	Breakout Room B	Log in
5:00 PM Ends: 5:15 PM	Great New Political Applications » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in
5:15 PM Ends: 6:15 PM	Closing Plenary: Redefining Leadership in a Networked Age » Add your review	Rose Theater	Log in