Netroots Nation 2010 will feature a spectacular Exhibit Hall centrally located near all the action. The Exhibit Hall will include interactive displays from non-profit, progressive organizations and corporate sponsors eager to connect with the progressive community, as well as a convention bookstore featuring book signings from well-known authors. Plus, we’ll host daily mixers, provide coffee and snacks, and create a lounge area within the Exhibit Hall.
EXHIBIT HALL HOURS
Thursday, July 22nd - 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday, July 23rd - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 24th - 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (breakdown for 2 hours afterwards)
EXHIBIT HALL SET-UP
Wednesday, July 21st - 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 22nd, - 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
If you have any questions about becoming an exhibitor at Netroots Nation, please email Karen at karen (at) netrootsnation (dot) org.
The following exhibitors will be at Netroots Nation 2010, many of our sponsors will have booths as well.
For over 30 years, Alliance for Justice (afj.org/blog) has been a leader in the fight for a more equitable society on behalf of a broad constituency of more than 100 environmental, consumer, civil and women’s rights, children’s, senior citizens’ and other groups. We believe that all Americans have the right to secure justice in the courts and to have our voices heard when government makes decisions that affect our lives. Our nonprofit and foundation advocacy legal team offers plain-language legal guides, advocacy-related workshops, and free one-on-one legal technical assistance. Our justice programs lead the movement to ensure a fair and independent federal judiciary and work towards social justice in a variety of areas. Learn more at afj.org/blog.
Blogads.com (blogads.com) connects advertisers with the political influentials who read premiere blogs like Dailykos, Wonkette, AmericaBlog, JackandJillpolitics, Feministing,Talkleft, fivethirtyeight and BlueOregon. Since we pioneered blog advertising in 2002, thousands of candidates, causes, advocates and merchants have relied on our technology and expertise. Effective and affordable, our social-media-friendly ad units spark conversations and conversions. Advertisers can get advice from our blog specialists or use our self-serve software to quickly launch campaigns on over 150 progressive blogs, optimize ad creative and monitor results in real time. Our latest innovation: bloggers now can earn money selling ads on each others’ blogs.
Bubble Genius (bubblegenius.com) bridges the gap between natural, good-for-you bath and body products and laugh-out-loud fun. Our vegan-friendly products are all made by hand in our Los Angeles workshop. Much of our packaging is reusable or recyclable and our ingredients are sourced as close to home as possible, thereby supporting other small and domestic businesses. We’re also total wonks (C-SPAN is on heavy rotation in our workshop), and all of our politically-charged creations have one-third of their profits funneled into relevant political causes. Be good to your soul, your skin, the environment, and your fellow man all at once. Carpe soapem!
Calling all political junkies and social media hounds! Watch C-SPAN’s (cspan.org) coverage of politics, policy, and Washington events unfiltered, unedited, and in full. In addition to cable television, satellite television, and satellite radio, join us on Facebook, watch our videos on YouTube, and follow us and join the conversation on Twitter: @cspan, @cspanwj, @booktv, @cspanradio. See something you like? Search C-SPAN’s archives in our FREE online video library at c-span.org where you can create your own video clips to share with friends, embed in your blog, or just watch whenever you want – Washington your way. C-SPAN is a public service of the cable industry.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy organization working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.
Change.org (change.org) is an online hub for social change. We run leading online communities for 20 major causes ranging from homelessness to women’s rights to poverty, and through a team of 100 expert writers and 3,000 nonprofit partners, we serve as the central platform for launching and promoting movements for social change on the web.
Coal River Mountain Watch (crmw.net) is a grassroots organization working in the heart of the Appalachian Sacrifice Zone. CRMW’s mission is, first and foremost, to end the ongoing human rights and environmental horror of Mountaintop Removal coal extraction and to re-build sustainable communities. Coal River Mountain Watch brings its case to the NetRoots in the hope that our fellow Americans outside Appalachia will rise up and demand an end to this persistent human rights crisis via organizing, advocacy and direct civil actions to insist that the Obama Administration and Congress finally recognize Appalachian people as American citizens fully vested with the civil rights that apply to the rest of the country. This is the Appalachian Uprising. Join it! After all, we ALL live downstream from Mountaintop Removal.
The Community Quilt Project began at Street Prophets, a Daily Kos community devoted to discussion of faith and politics. It “stitches people together” as a community in a two types of “friendship quilts”, signature quilts signed at Netroots Nation and “love catcher” quilts made to support individual community members who are ill or facing some terrible problem. A signature quilt will be available for signing, this year to benefit Feeding America. Come by and add a message for posterity! Also, a limited edition of handmade coffee cozies will be available to support the Community Quilt Project and Netroots Nation.
Free Press (freepress.net) is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.
Four decades after its creation, the Guttmacher Institute (guttmacher.org) continues to advance sexual and reproductive health in the United States and worldwide through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education designed to generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate, promote sound policy and program development and, ultimately, inform individual decision making.
Since 2002, speakers for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (leap.cc) have led the public debate on drug policy. As current and former criminal justice professionals LEAP speakers bring an unassailable credibility to the conversation. LEAP believes existing drug policies have failed to address the problems of crime, drug abuse, addiction and the flow of illegal drugs. This group of international law enforcement professionals and concerned citizens agree that by fighting a war on drugs, governments have increased the societal problems associated with drug abuse. LEAP believes a system of regulation is less harmful, more ethical and a more effective policy than prohibition.
Mobile Roots (mobileroots.biz) helps political and advocacy campaigns win votes and get attention by leveraging the possibilities of mobile technology. Our platform combines the power of SMS and mobile applications, enabling campaigns to communicate more effectively - to the public and within their own campaign. We help campaigns understand the best practices for social media and web content integration through all mobile devices, including iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Palm. In a quickly changing technology space, we provide ways to influence and enthuse constituents and donors. As a consulting company, we help campaigns develop and execute mobile strategy. As a Software as a Service vendor, our product helps campaigns get into the mobile arena.
NARAL Pro-Choice America (BlogforChoice.com) is the political leader of the pro-choice movement. With more than one million member activists in all 50 states, in partnership with 23 state affiliates, NARAL Pro-Choice America protects the pro-choice values of freedom and privacy by electing pro-choice candidates, lobbying Congress, and by developing strategies to advance pro-choice policies and defeat anti-choice attacks. NARAL Pro-Choice America is using new tools to engage the next generation of activists. Whether it’s text-messaging or the organization’s BlogforChoice.com, we want to create a community that takes action to safeguard our reproductive freedom at all levels of government.
National Nurses United (NNU) (nationalnursesunited.org) is the nation’s largest union of registered nurses. NNU was formed in 2009 through the merger of the California Nurses Association, the United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Union, to create a new super union with a combined strength of 150,000 members. NNU hopes to use its increased clout to influence the national healthcare debate and while most registered nurses in the U.S. do not belong to a union, the NNU is thinking big and hopes to organize tens of thousands of non-union RNs nationwide.
Netroots For The Troops (netrootsforthetroops.com) is a joint venture of the IGTNT and MoJo Friday communities of dailykos.com, an online political news and activist hub. Our mission is two-fold: annual shipment of CARE packages to US soldiers in serving in hostile regions of Iraq and Afghanistan for the duration of their deployment, and on-going financial assistance for veterans and their families upon their return to the states.
Public Citizen (citizen.org) is a national, nonprofit public interest organization that has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable since 1971. We represent the American people in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. Public Citizen fights for openness and democratic accountability in government; for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care.
Share International Network USA (share-international.org) is a non-profit educational organization established to disseminate information about the presence in the world of great Spiritual Teachers—the Masters of Wisdom and Maitreya, the World Teacher—here to recommend solutions to humanity’s present political, economic, and environmental crises. We also seek to make the Ageless Wisdom Teachings available to the public, and encourage practical spirituality through meditation and world service. Activities include sponsoring lectures throughout the USA, fostering the development of Transmission Meditation groups, and publishing and distributing the books of British artist Benjamin Creme, Share International magazine and The Emergence Quarterly newspaper.
State Senator Tarryl Clark (tarrylclark.com) is the candidate who will finally defeat Congresswoman Michele Bachmann! Tarryl was elected to the Minnesota Senate in a 2005 special election, putting a previously Republican seat back into the Democratic column. She was re-elected in 2006 by double-digit margins, earning the highest vote totals in the district. Tarryl won through a commitment to grassroots voter contact, and brings this same commitment to her campaign for Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has called Tarryl a “rising star,” and KSTP-TV describes Tarryl as a “strong voice of the DFL-controlled Senate.” Learn more at tarrylclark.com.
The UpTake (theuptake.org) is a pioneering video news gathering organization that uses the Internet as its broadcast medium, a combination of trained amateurs and professional journalist to produce its coverage and social media to organize and scale our operations. Since our founding, we have produced over 3,000 political videos, webcast thousands of hours of political events and trained over 400 people in “Startup Journalism.” In 2008, we were a named a Website of the Year by the Center for Public Integrity. The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists recently awarded The UpTake three coveted Page One Awards for its work in 2009. Find The Uptake at Zanby booth The UpTake is a 501c4, non-partisan, non-pro fit organization.
Warecorp (warecorp.com) is an international software engineering services firm with 70 employees worldwide. Since its founding in 2004, Warecorp’s design, engineering and management teams have curated a portfolio of change agents, helping a wide variety of triple-bottom-line businesses solve the challenge of sourcing software and web development services.
Zanby (zanby.com) is “Middleware for the Social Web.” Zanby’s patent pending group architecture reduces the time and expense of building unlimited, managed social communities or coalitions of communities that are integrated at every level – internally with systems and intranets, through external branded communities, and with extended networks across the social web.
Zanby is committed to running the company in a way that that uses the tools of the marketplace to not only make a profit – but improve quality of life locally, nationally & internationally.
