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The four Short Presentations are 10 minute presentations to the whole group and are run back-to-back.

The style of the presentation is decided by those making it, but presentation that involve input and dialogue tend to be more interesting.

Presentation Topics
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Presentation topics can be proposed by anyone.  Once a presentation is proposed, event participants need to express their interest in those topics they are most interested in and provide input for those presenting.

Presentation Selection
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If there are more proposed presentations than time available, then the presentations will be decided based on which are the most popular based on sign-ups on the wiki pages.

Proposed Presentations
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Add your proposed short presentations here by pressing edit above (or via the comments box).  Be sure to include the name of the person who will do the presentation and any other information to attract supporters for the presentation.

Writing a good presentation proposal is especially important if more than three presentations are proposed since there is only time for three, those three will be decided based on how popular they are up until the week before the event.


Idea #1: Introducing Campaigning Practioner Tools
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!FairSay is on the verge of launching two web services that will be of interest to you as campaigning practitioners:

1) An 'Action Alert Archive' of thousands of action alerts from hundreds of campaigning organisations in the UK and many other countries with a few dating back as far as 1999 when I started saving them. This will allow you to explore who is doing/has done what to mine for ideas and inspiration for your own action alerts or any other use you can think of

2) An 'Action Registry' for registering current campaigning actions in and then being able to filter those via a search or rss feed....sort of like a Digg for campaigning actions (online initially and then offline too)  This is not only so that we can quickly find out who is doing what, but also to enable mashups that helps promote campaigning actions. The next step is to convince campaigning tool vendors, communities and services to build support for it into their tools so that registering actions is easy or automatic.

3) An 'Activism Search' engine using Google Coop

These three tools form the first start of a 'campaign benchmarking tool' that was briefly discussed last year.


Idea #2: Campaigning Tools for Indivdual Activists
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Tracy Brown.  Advocacy Online.  `Voice Your Views <http://www.voiceyourviews.net/>`_ - http://www.voiceyourviews.net - is a website we've launched with free e-campaigning technology for small campaigning organisations or individual campaigners.  The PM's petition website has shown that there are a lot of people that want to campaign, make a statement.  How can this transition into more complicated campaigns that require people to write to their MP, MEPs or local councillors?  Are indivual activists motivated to create their own campaigns and do they have the support they need to make sure they are adequately promoted?  Ultimately... is there scope for larger campaigning organisations to nurture and encourage individual activists?  Is this the way for larger campaigning organisations to give some control to individual activists that want to do more?


Idea #3: Internet psychology, persuasion and the media equation
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This proposed session would explore aspects of human psychology that are applicable to human-Internet interaction. Building on findings from psychology, persuasive technology and an amalgamation of research labelled the 'media equation', this presentation will discuss how persuasive web campaigns are like persuasive people--thus some principles of effective human-human engagement also apply to human-Internet mobilization. This presentation would briefly describe a few research areas that have practical application to e-campaign development and implementation.  

Presented by Brian Cugelman
Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group
University of Wolverhampton
http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk


Idea #4: Online/offline integration in Practice
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Beka, Greenpeace USA: I might like to talk about online/offline integration.  This has been the focus of my work 
for the last 2 years, and I've learned many lessons along the way.  
Would share experience from Greenpeace USA's 2006 and 2007 Whale 
campaigns, and our Project Hot Seat district-focused global warming 
legislative campaign.  Topics include best practices in organizing 
distributed events, distributed phonebanking, YouTube/MySpace/event 
registration integration, "superactivist" leadership development, and 
narrative-driven campaigning. 


Idea #5: Second edition of Radio 1812
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Myriam Horngren, consultant. I would like to present the second edition of Radio 1812 (www.radio1812.net), Radio1812/2007 as a short presentation, to get feedback and any contacts out there that people may have with relevant groups and also welcome anyone who might want to get involved. Radio 1812 combines radio programming and online inter-action to celebrate International Migrants Day, which falls every year on 18th December. It's a project for which we had very little funds and resources yet that was quite successful and I'd like to share the enthusiasm for 2007 with everyone. 

Presentation Interest
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Martin Lloyd: Yes to "Introducing Campaigning Practioner Tools"

From Andrew Thu May 3 07:07:08 -0500 2007
From: Andrew
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 07:07:08 -0500
Subject: 
Message-ID: <20070503070708-0500@fairsay.com>

Would like to hear more too (on "Introducing Campaigning Practioner Tools")

From DanMcQuillan Mon May 7 18:05:03 -0500 2007
From: Dan McQuillan
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 18:05:03 -0500
Subject: practioner tools & mashups 
Message-ID: <20070507180503-0500@www.fairsay.com>

i'm also looking forward to seeing the action alert and action registry go live. 
i'm sure that enabling mashups is going to be an important part of developing online activism. 
along those lines, it'd be great to see an NGO version of backstage.bbc.co.uk - perhaps that's something we can also discuss at the ecampaigning forum.