The Global Netroots
This panel is composed of individuals who are from—or blog about—different parts of the world. What is going on in other countries, and how do we draw wider points of perspective at a global level of what is happening globally through the netroots?
Jerome Armstrong began blogging in 2001 at MyDD.com. He was a member of Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign internet team and a senior advisor for Mark Warner.
In 2006, Armstrong co-authored “Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots and the Rise of People-Powered Politics” and he is a co-founder of SBNation.com, the largest sports-related network of blogs.
A founding partner of WebStrong Group, he has worked with multiple Democratic campaigns and organizations, the Liberal Democrats in the UK, and other political parties outside the US, as a political consultant.
Nico Pitney is National Editor of The Huffington Post. Previously, he was managing editor of ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
I became politically active in the Dean campaign and through democrats abroad. I have served as an elected state party officer and am now an elected member to the DNC. I have been writing on The Group News Blog, and Fighting Liberals, as well as various democrats abroad related blogs and sites.
I am also a freelance writer and food professional.
I own my own company in Japan and was active in the Americans Abroad for Obama efforts in Asia.
