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Proposed Sessions - add yours here in between lines

Advice

• Make sure you plan to have an interactive presentation, debrief, or skills share - ie be prepared for questions. Our venue has internet access, projectors and white boards. Plan accordingly.
• You have three lengths to choose from (30 mins, 45 mins, and 75 mins). If you are teaming up with friends to do a panel session, please consider taking a longer time slot.
• When you arrive, don't be surprised if someone else has a similar presentation. Be flexible and converse!

Categories

Of course the areas suggested below are overlapping and incomplete -- don't feel your session has to fit in one... Some items have been sampled from Cosmopolity's 2004 Morning After Conference.

Vision & Message - Campaign Rundown / Debrief

• Run down of the campaign you just worked on?
• How do we keep the fight alive?
• A discussion of the composition of unconventional campaigns.
• Between campaigns, how progressive energy can support or challenge elected officials, government agencies and public policy.
• Venues for Progressive Action. What physical spaces does our movement require, and how can we build them?

Communications strategy & tactics (press judo)

• Political Strategy Master Class. Structuring a campaign: goals, partnerships, message. Bring your experiences and plans as case studies.
• Creating unconventional publicity and leveraging it into real impact.
• Email metrics and viral campaign communications.

Field strategy & tactics (organization building, voter registration and contact, GOTV)

• Your session here
• A brainstorming session on how our energy can dig in on local efforts, and what effect that may have down the road.
• From old-style clubs to on-line communities, the importance of social capital in a political movement.
• Share your objectives and obstacles with other organizers who are reaching across the country -- share best practices and develop a few new ones.
• Early/Mail voting and their impact on the traditional grassroots campaigning.

Technology & Data

• Dean Collins from www.mexuar.com - I'm going to run a session on the Asterisk open source application www.asterisk.org and why any political movement trying to 'communicate with the public' will fail without it
• A roundtable on the new tech applications that will -- or should -- enhance and transform the progressive movement.
• How to effectively use the internet to create your own media channel, build support and enhance your cause.
• SMS and elections.