Social Networking/Media Strategies for the Presidential Campaigns
Join a discussion with the pioneers who developed the social networking strategies for the 2008 presidential campaigns. The campaign gurus will talk about their success and failure in the pursuit of the White House.
Chair: Alan Rosenblatt, Associate Director for
Online Advocacy, Center for American Progress
Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D. is the Associate Director for Online
Advocacy at CAPAF. He is a frequent speaker and author on digital media,
advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and
mobile advocacy strategies. He is the founder of the Internet Advocacy Center;
an adjunct professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and American Universities,
where he teaches Media and Politics in the Digital Age, Internet Politics,
Digital Political Strategies, and Internet Advocacy Communications; and a
blogger at TechPresident.com and DrDigiPol.com.
Alan is also a founding team member of Media Bureau Networks, a pioneer in
streaming media services; a contributing editor to PoliticsOnline.com; serves
on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of
the Internet, politics, and government; and is a member of the Board of
Directors for E-Democracy.org. He taught Political Science at George Mason
University for nine
years, where, in 1995, he launched the first-ever cyberpolitics course. With
MBN, he webcasted live coverage of the 2000 presidential conventions. In 2001,
he served as Vice President for the Online Advocacy Services division at
Stateside Associates. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director of Training Programs
at e-advocates.
Alan has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American
University, an M.A. in Political
Science from Boston College, and a B.A. in Political Science and
Philosophy from Tufts
University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Katie Harbath - former eCampaign Director, Rudy Giuliani for President
Katie Harbath
is currently a director in the online services department at DCI Group
in Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Deputy eCampaign Director
for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign. Harbath has also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republican National Committee.
A native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Harbath has a bachelors degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Justine Lam - eCampaign Director, Ron Paul for President
Justine Lam is the eCampaign Director of the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign. As the eCampaign Director, she managed the development of the campaign Web site and developed the campaign's strategy in utilizing social networking platforms and other technologies to inform potential voters about the candidate, to facilitate the mobilization of supporters, and to raise funds for the campaign.
Amy Rubin - former National Director of New Media, John Edwards for President
Amy Rubin currently serves as the Deputy Director of New Media
Communications for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. She works with
targeted senate campaigns across the country to produce video shorts that push
and shape message both through online and traditional communications channels.
Before joining the DSCC, Amy was the National Director of New Media and the New
Hampshire Director of Online Communications and Organizing for the John Edwards
for President campaign. Amy received her Bachelor's degree in Political Science
and Film from Vassar College in 2005.
Michael Turk - Blogger, techPresident and former eCampaign Director, Republican National Committee
Michael
Turk is a blogger and political technology consultant living in Falls
Church, Virginia. He currently serves as the Vice President for
Industry Grassroots for the National Cable & Telecommunications
Association. Turk served as the eCampaign Director for Bush-Cheney
04 and was the chief architect of Fred Thompson’s Internet
effort.
Following
the 2004 campaign, Turk created the eCampaign Division at the
Republican National Committee - overseeing the Internet operations
and online activism for the Republican Party.>
In
his professional career, Turk has lived at the intersection of
politics and technology – with 14 years of political Internet
experience crossing from the political to the commercial and even
into government – which he swears he’ll never do again.
His ramblings appear on his own blog at KungFuQuip.com
and he is also a contributing editor for Tech
President
and the Personal
Democracy Forum.
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