Politics Online 2009 Conference

We all like to talk about how much we use technology (hence all the posts and memos we've all written on our own sites about how to use Twitter, Facebook, etc.).

But how many of us have actually looked at the user experiences of Members of Congress, as they work through the highs and lows of social media in political office?

Or asked a Senator what it felt like to post the tweet heard around the country?

Now you can.

Join Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Rep. John Culberson (R, TX-7), Rep. Steve Israel (D, NY-2), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R WA-5), and Rep. Tim Ryan (D, OH-17) for “Elected and Connected: Uses, Dangers, and Benefits of Being an Elected Official in a 2.0 World" on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. at the 2009 Politics Online Conference.

Start the conversation at the 2009 Politics Online Conference (April 20-21) in Washington, DC.

See you in April!

Julie

The 2009 Politics Online Conference

April 20-21 (Monday-Tuesday)

The Ronald Reagan Building

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004

Other Ways To Be Involved

Profile your organization in the Geek Lab, Conference Hub, or in a Sponsored Session.

Attend eDemocracyCamp2 right before the conference on Sunday, April 19.

Check out the agenda.

About the 2009 Politics Online Conference
The Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet, GWU's Graduate School of Political Management, and Campaigns & Elections' Politics magazine are proud to announce the 16th Politics Online Conference April 20-21, 2009 at The Ronald Reagan Building. Register now.

Technology blurs the edges between campaigning, elected office, and advocacy. Between political professional, candidate, and constituent.

What innovations exist just around the corner?
How can you incorporate those ideas into your campaign or organization?
What can you do to produce the kinds of innovative tools, applications, and strategies that transform your organization, campaign, or the issue that matter most to you -- and the way the rest of the country participates in the political process?
Learn, innovate, and caucus with a brilliant, multi-partisan group of political professionals, campaigners, candidates, and advocates at the nation's premiere non-partisan technology and politics event. Register now!

Panels at the 2009 Politics Online Conference include:

Cognitive Evolution and Revolution: How the way we use technology changes us (and how that changes politics)
Innovation, Pop Culture, Business, and Politics
Elected and Connected: Uses, Dangers, and Benefits or Being an Elected Official in a 2.0 World
Social Media Analytics: Monitor, Measure and Manage Your Reputation on the Wild Wild Web of Social Media
Collaborative Politics Online: Principles, Pitfalls and Practical Advice
Fishing with a Keyboard: How to catch and engage online users
Broadening Broadband: The Benefits and Beyond
Public Affairs in the Digital Age: Real People = Real Results
How Republicans and Democrats Can Work Together Online to Create Government Transparency
Academic Research on Internet Tools in the 2008 Election
Advocacy 3.0
Power in your Pocket: Campaigning with Mobile Phones
Needle in a Haystack: Effectively utilizing data to fuel targeting efforts
Online Politics at the State Level
Law, Politics and the Internet: What is the current state of regulation? Is more regulation on the horizon?
Visualization Nation: The Bleeding Edge of Visualizing Political Data
Field Organizing in a Digital World – new tools for old tricks?
Vote Report: Crowdsourcing Political Journalism
The Next Generation of Campaign Web Sites
Tinkering Your Web Strategy: Using Analytics to Understand Your Traffic and Making Adjustments
Successful Tactics for Raising Money Online
New President, New Priorities: Call for a National Broadband Strategy
Will Old Media Paradigms Shift into the New Media World?
Social Media Platforms and Directing Traffic to your Real Campaign
Mobilizing your Campaign Bootcamp (for advanced strategists!)
Smear Politics Online
The Next Step – Instant Feedback on your Ideas for Using Technology to Advance Politics
Wii the People – Can games be a useful tool to engage the public in policy development?
Every question I was too embarrassed to ask about technology.
Palin-ated – Online Media Training, Don'cha Know!