Advocacy 3D

The panel Advocacy 3D will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 20th, in the Ballroom.

Description
Online campaigns can be envisioned in three dimensions (or versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 if you are wedded to a computer metaphor). At the core, the dimensions are about the strategic flow-direction of communication. The first dimension is about broadcasting a one-way campaign message. The second dimension is about building a transactional or two-way relationship with activists and/or voters. And the third dimension is about unleashing the masses, with communication flowing to and from the campaign, as well as in any direction between and among activists/voters. As with all things online, the fourth dimension (time) is always in play, as the technology allows for asynchronous communication in all dimensions.

Speakers

 * Alan Rosenblatt - Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D. is the Associate Director for Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and well-known internet advocacy evangelist, gray beard, (some say) guru, and (others say) mentor. He is a long-time and frequent speaker and author on digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, e-government, and mobile advocacy strategies.  He is the founder of the Internet Advocacy Center and the Internet Advocacy Roundtable; an adjunct/visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and American Universities, where he teaches graduate courses on the intersection of the internet, politics, and the media; and a blogger at the Huffington Post, TechPresident.com, Campaign & Elections' Politics Magazine, K Street Café, and DrDigiPol.com. Alan is also a founding team member of Media Bureau Networks (MBN), a pioneer in streaming media services which streamed live programs from the 2000 Republican and Democratic National Conventions; a contributing editor to Politics Online; serves on the editorial review boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the internet, politics, and government; and is a member of the Board of Directors for E-Democracy.org.  He was a Fellow at George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet in 2008. In the early days of the Web, he taught Political Science at George Mason University for nine years, where, in the spring of 1995, he launched the world's first-ever internet politics course.  From 2001 to 2003, he created and served as Vice President for the Online Advocacy Services division at Stateside Associates, a leading state issues management firm.  From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director of Training Programs at e-advocates (now called 720 Strategies), which was at the time part of the Capitol Advantage family of companies. He has been working in a professional capacity with the internet since 1988 and with computers and politics since 1986.  Alan Rosenblatt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston College, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University.  He lives in Arlington, Virginia.  He does sleep, but always feels like he has more work to do.


 * Benjamin Barnett - Benjamin Barnett is the founder and New Media Specialist for Media Bureau Networks, a digital media company he founded in 1997. From 1997-2002, he produced, directed, and webcasted 12 original broadband shows for the internet. He was the producer / engineer of the first Political webcasts in Philadelphia's history (1999) and was one of the first independent (political) voices to webcast live from the RNC and DNC conventions (2000). His primary experience lies in New Media Strategy, e-government possibilities, Information Architecture solutions, politics, and strategizing the ongoing intersection of media / digital culture. He also empathetically helps other business owners set priorities and devise Internet strategies as a sympathetic and experienced entrepreneur. He has previously served as the New Media Specialist for Comcast online, the first Webmaster for Discmakers.com, and Digital Video director for a multimedia company in Tel Aviv Israel. He has also taught English in the former Czechoslovakia. His clients range from e-government Integration / UI / Database projects to Mom-and-Pop retail shops looking to enter into the web based market place for the first time. He writes for a variety of in-house blogs but can be found publicly these days at the futurist blog http://TechHeadz.blogspot.com and Tweeting as @PoliticiansTV. He has served on the curriculum advisory board of the Art Institute in the Advertising and Multimedia departments since 2001. He has been working in a professional capacity with the internet since 1992. Benjamin Barnett has a B.S. in English Literature from the American University and an MFA in Advertising Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He completed the Campaign Management Institute at American University. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pa, amongst some of the greatest political history this county has to offer.


 * Ken Deutsch - Ken Deutsch is the Director of Strategic Services and Partnerships at Morningside Analytics. Since the early 1990's Ken has been a leader in foreseeing and utilizing the Internet as a public affairs tool. With a background in grassroots campaign management, he oversaw the development of: the first public affairs websites; the first integration of user data into online grassroots mobilization; and the first blogger relations practice. Prior to working at Morningside Analytics, Ken served as the Executive Vice President of Issue Dynamics, Inc. (IDI) and before that as Field Director for Public Citizen.


 * Colin Delany - Colin Delany is founder and editor of Epolitics.com, a website that focuses on the tools and tactics of Internet politics and online advocacy. Launched in July of 2006, Epolitics.com received the Golden Dot Award as "Best Blog - National Politics" at the 2007 Politics Online Conference. The site also features an "Online Politics 101" e-book. Delany started in politics in the early '90s in the Texas Capitol (where public service is considered a contact sport) and moved into the online political world in 1995. In 1999, during the first Internet boom, he helped to start a targeted search engine for politics and policy, which lasted about as long as such ideas usually do. Since then, Delany has worked as a consultant to help dozens of political advocacy campaigns promote themselves in the digital world, and between 2003 and 2007 was the Online Communications Manager at the National Environmental Trust. He also plays bass in a rock and roll band.

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