thelobbyist goes to New York: Personal Democracy Forum 2009

Yours truly will be heading to New York City to attend this years Personal Democracy Forum conference. I was recently awarded a Google Fellowship to represent thelobbyist.net at the conference. You can see the list of awardees here. The conference is known as the largest of its type to investigate the intersection of politics and technology. And this years conference may be the most exciting yet as we have had a huge year with the successful uses of new media/social networking in various campaigns, most notably that of our current president, the coming of age of Twitter in grassroots movements such as this past Springs Tea Parties, and new technology uses in government like we.gov.

If you aren’t familiar with the Personal Democracy Forum conference, you can check up on it here.

On behalf of all of us at thelobbyist, we are honored and humbled by this invitation, and would like to send out a special THANK YOU! to those at Personal Democracy Forum for their selection of thelobbyist.net for a fellowship, and additionally to Google, Inc for providing the fellowship allowing us to attend the event.

Updates will follow to share what we’ve learned about the growing convergence of technology and politics.

-nick