Tuesday, September 9, 2008
7:30 - 10:00 am
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About This Event
Our Panel:
Andrew Rasiej is the Founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website covering the intersection of politics and technology; as well as techPresident, a group blog that covers how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the web, and how content generated by voters is affecting the campaign. He has served as an advisor to Senators and Congressman and political candidates on the use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes since 1999.
Amanda Michel is Project Director of Off the Bus/Huffington Post. Amanda started in politics during the 2003-2004 campaign cycle, working as the National Director of Generation Dean and then creating and managing the MediaCorps program for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Along with several other Kerry-Edwards coworkers she helped co-found the New Organizing Institute in the wake of the 2004 election. Since then she's taken her online organizing skills to media, working at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and on Assignment Zero, a Wired and NewAssignment.net collaboration.
Brian Reich, a Strategic Consultant and the Director of Boston Operations for Mindshare Interactive Campaigns. Brian has spent much of his life working with campaigns and political organizations. He has helped direct dozens of campaigns across the country ranging from student elections in Michigan to local initiatives and statewide campaigns in Seattle. During the 1996 cycle, Brian was the youngest national campaign manager in the country, leading a challenger-race in Connecticut. He has served as an Assistant to the Director of Presidential Speechwriting at the White House and in Vice President Gore's speechwriting office as a writer and researcher. More recently, Brian served as Vice President Gore's Briefing Director, both in the White House and during his 2000 presidential campaign. Brian attended the University of Michigan and graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Political Science. He and is wife, Karen Dahl, live in Cambridge, MA.
Rachel Sterne is Founder/CEO GroundReport.com. GroundReport was founded ain June 2006 and it's mission
is to democratize the news media was inspired by Rachel's experience reporting on the United Nations Security Council as a State Department intern. Before founding GroundReport, Rachel worked in Business Development at file-sharing software company LimeWire and as a political reporter on the Security Council for the US Mission to the United Nations. She also co-founded the New York Citizen Journalism Meetup and a contributor to the Huffington Post and Jay Rosen's NewAssignment. net. GroundReport started as a side project for Rachel Sterne after her work a the UN Security Council on events taking place in Darfur. GroundReport, a network of over 2,000 citizen journalists from around the world, went from being a side project to Sterne's full time job.
Our Moderator
Lloyd Trufelman is the President and CEO of TrylonSMR. Prior to establishing Trylon 1990, Lloyd held executive public relations positions at such communications companies as MTV Networks, the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, WNYC, Howard J. Rubenstein Associates and CBS Masterworks. In addition he has directed press relations for political candidates on the national, state and municipal levels. An accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and a member of its Counselors Academy, Trufelman has served as a board member of Promotion & Marketing Executives in Electronic Media (PROMAX), and is a member of the Partnership for New York City. He has been a speaker at meetings of the International Radio & Television Society, New York Software Industry Association, Public Relations Society of America, Cable Television Public Affairs Association, Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, National Broadcasting Society and Columbia University's Strategic Communications Program, among others.
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