Campaign ‘08: Media and Candidates Mixing It Up (Or Getting Mixed)

Campaign strategists, grassroots activists and media organizations of all sizes are aggressively embracing social media tools and techniques to reach a generation raised online. Are their efforts driving voter engagement? Has video’s ease and availability really changed the game? Is social media leveling the journalism playing field? And has the online conversation about campaign ‘08 reached significant scale or is it just hype?

Leonard Brody, Co-founder and CEO, NowPublic
Chuck DeFeo, VP and GM, Townhall.com and Salem News/Talk Online
Betsy Morgan, CEO, The Huffington Post
Manuel Perez, Senior Supervising Producer, CNN.com
Micah Sifry, Co-founder and Editor, Personal Democracy Forum/TechPresident

Moderator: Dennis Haarsager, Interim CEO, National Public Radio

Bookmark and Share These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • bodytext
  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • del.icio.us
  • Google
  • StumbleUpon
  • Pownce
Peter Cervieri is co-founder of and Director of Business Development for ScribeMedia.Org. He has many fetishes. Among them is collecting business cards.

Discussion

No comments for “Campaign ‘08: Media and Candidates Mixing It Up (Or Getting Mixed)”

Post a comment