[CivicAccess-discuss] Ottawa Tonight - Social Applications of the Web for Activists: Online Elections

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

*Social Applications of the Web for Activists*

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Octopus Books

Mike Gifford<http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/go.php?http://openconcept.ca/about>will
be presenting this fascinating series at Octopus
Books<http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/go.php?http://www.octopusbooks.org/home>.
Mike is president of OpenConcept
Consulting<http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/go.php?http://openconcept.ca/>and
his primary interest lies with building effective online campaigns for
progressive organizations. Working with unions, NGOs, and other progressive
organizations, OpenConcept is in a unique position to build community and
share the accumulated knowledge from a variety of sectors.

* Part one of the series is: Online Elections*

On Nov 4th the world will be watching as the U.S. decides whether to support
Obama or McCain. This could be the first North American election clearly won
by a candidate that gets the web and how it can be used to organize the
electorate. Obama's online fund-raising efforts have provided them with an
unprecedented level of grassroots contributions. Blogs, twitter, youtube,
and other Web 2.0 sites have been heavily used in this campaign. Will it be
enough for the Democrats to win?  How are the Republican's with their
non-tech savy candidate responding?  And is there information here we can
adapt for use here in Canada's electoral system?


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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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