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, decentralized organizing techniques, race and the technological divide, nicropayments, microfinance & crowdfunding, creators on creators' rights, mastering social media for social marketing, public funding for content creation, an intellectual property rights primer, introduction to virtual worlds, getting your video online, the new Mass. data safety law, media strategy with the Boston Action Tank, and getting online with content management systems. The full list of workshops is being added this website over Tuesday, October 6, 2009.