I was lucky enough this year to be able to attend parts of the Politics Online Conference, run by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at George Washington University. It was a great event, with interesting topics/speakers and impressively competent logistics (I helped stuff name badges into holders the Saturday before, and pretty much everything else was ready to move into the space then, banners and boxes and all).
If you want to read what I learned from speakers including Senator Claire McCaskill and Obama campaign Director of New Media Joe Rospars, my posts on Amplify’s Advocacy Avenue blog (oh yeah, we changed the blog name) are:
- POLC: How We Did It – the role of money in the Obama and McCain campaigns
- POLC: Reaching Congress, according to Congress and according to advocates
- POLC: The Visual Frontier
- POLC: Social Media Platforms and Directing Traffic to Your Real Campaign
