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Speakers
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Ben Brandzel
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Most recently, Ben was the *Director of Online Communications, Organizing and Fundraising* for the 2008 `John Edwards for President campaign <http://www.johnedwards.com/>`_ that many thought as the US presidential primary campaign that made the best use of interactive media. He is a founder of `!MoveOn <http://www.moveon.org/>`_ - the organisation that help inspire both `!GetUp <http://www.getup.org.au/>`_ and `Avaaz <http://www.avaaz.org/>`_.

Karina Brisby
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Karina is `Oxfam GB's <http://www.oxfam.org.uk/>`_ Interactive Campaign Manager. In this role since 2005, she has overseen Oxfam GB's continued strong growth of their use of interactive media for campaigning. Over the last year she has made increasing use of a growing range of social media sites and tools along-side the more established approaches. Before joining Oxfam GB managed Oxfam Australia's website,  worked in commercial interactive agencies, and was part of the community technology scene in Australia, that lead to the `Indymedia movement <http://www.indymedia.org/>`_, first used to organise globally in 1999/2000. She will touch on both how Oxfam GB have used interactive media in the last year (including social media) and other good examples from around the world.


Speaker Selection and Criteria
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For each eCampaigning Forum, the aim is to have speakers who can demonstrate cutting-edge campaigning via interactive media. Generally this is one working in an established NGO and one working outside an 'established' NGO structure. Since may event participants return each year, a speaker also can't be from the same organisation as the previous year.

Any speaker needs to:

- Relate directly to e-campaigning
- Be useful for most of the ECF participants
- Challenge ECF participants to think beyond their current activities
- Have recent/current examples thay can use to demonstrate their points
- Be different from each other (e.g. not both from the same type of organisation / country / sector)
- Can use current examples (in last 6-12 months)


From Last Year
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See the `speakers from last year's event </events/ecampaigning-forum/2007/Speakers>`_ to get ideas for what you'd like this year.