Twitter: Separating the Hype from the Reality
This new medium is rising faster than any other social networking platform, but is it destined to be overloaded with celebrity gossip and trivia or will it become a revolutionary tool for social change? We will explore it's strengths and limitations as we work to separate the hype from Reality on using Twitter to organizing online.
Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media (www.airamerica.com) and also serves as the Editor of the Women's Rights blog at Change.org (www.womensrights.change.org). In her free time, she volunteers for New Leaders Council, a progressive leadership training program. You can follow her on Twitter @HumanFolly.
Matt organized his first campaign while a college student at the University of Iowa and hasn't stopped since. He has worked in over a dozen states doing field organizing, fundraising and online communications for the DNC, MoveOn.org, Jon Tester and more.
For the last two years Matt have managed a national training program for Democratic activists and candidates at Democracy for America. Since joining DFA he has organized over 56 campaign trainings in 31 states, training over 3,000 people to become better activists, campaign staff or candidates. http://www.democracyforamerica.com/campaignacademy
Adam Green is co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a new piece of infrastructure that helps progressive congressional candidates run effective campaigns and win. He is also interim CEO of reform group Change Congress. Previously, Adam served as Director of Strategic Campaigns for MoveOn.org Political Action. Adam blogs at OpenLeft.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and DailyKos.com. and teaches Internet & Politics at GWU's School of Media & Public Affairs.
