Thank you!
Thank you! With scores of participants (close to 200 hundred registrants) across 22 workshops, 2 plenaries, and 2 lunchtime panels, representing diverse service, advocacy, union, grassroots organizations , we achieved our conference objectives!
Immigrant, union, peace movement and community organizers shared their experiences and creativity with each other... and with media pros and writers of all sorts.
Managing Your Organization Via Your Website...
All our workshops have been updated online. This means that the program book needs some further updating... to include the full description for the workshop on using your web management tools to help run your organization (third session).
Follow the conference on Twitter
The conference has a hashtag for Twitter: #gutc If you're tweeting the conference, insert this into your messages to contribute to the dialogue.
Roberto Lavato, Basta Dobbs! Campaigner to Join Lunchtime Panel
Doyle Canning, of smartMeme, is hosting a lunchtime panel featuring Michelle Moon Lee (Quilted), Steve Backman (Database Designs), and Sunanda Nair (MataHari – Eye of the Day).
On the Airwaves!
Our friends at WMBR covered the conference last night as has Public News Service's Monique Coppola. Download the audio (MP3) from this link. Here's the text version of her piece:
Program Book Ready for Download
Twenty great workshops, 3 major panel discussions, and an impressive keynote address all add up to the 10th annual Grassroots Use of Technology Conference. The print version of the program has caught up with the website and can be downloaded (2MB PDF).
Richard O'Bryant to Sound Keynote: Connecting the Disconnected!
On Saturday morning Richard O'Bryant will call us to action in his keynote address, "Connect the Disconnected." He will sound a theme that has captured his attention and one that promises empowerment for communities on the wrong side of the "tech divide." It is also going to be a call that focuses on what people are already doing... making it concrete and not abstract.
Full Program Encompasses Organizing & Big Picture Issues
Next week on Friday, the conference kicks off with a panel discussion entitled, "Facing the Digital Future"; Richard O'Bryant expands on this conversation the next day with his key note address, "Connecting the Disconnected." We have 18 workshops that range in subject: building rapid response networks, global hometowns and new media, labor's new tools, using CiviCRM and other databases for campaigns, collaborative democracy, organizing for the US Social Forum, effective e-mail list management, Organizers' Database, dec
Getting Our Workshops Online
We're finalizing the workshop list right now (but will still try to accomodate late submissions). Here's a peak at the Introduction to Social Media Workshop.
Celebrate 10 years of Grassroots Technology with the 
