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Announcement: “Blogging the Election” Conference Oct 7th 2006
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IrishElection.com is pleased to invite you to their “Blogging the Election” conference that will take place in Dublin City Centre on October 7th 2006. (Actual venue to be announced in due course.) Full press release at end of post. Cian O’Flaherty, Suzy Byrne, Mick Fealty from Slugger O’Toole and Damien Mulley are the organisers.
Full event details available here.
Format of event:
The tone is informal. In fact for most of the day we plan to host a series of peer to peer conversations. We kick off with short presentations from guest speakers. A follow-up communication will announce this guests.
Mick Fealty (Slugger O’Toole) will then facilitate a series of open spaces in which participants can host their own conversations, probing issues that they are passionate about. It’s a space to raise questions and seek answers.
- Will the next election see the rise of a growing band of Irish political bloggers?
- What will they blog about?
- What is blogging likely to do to our politics?
- Should politicians blog/not blog?
Much as it does online most of the content will generate itself out the natural conversations that naturally arise. We finish the day with drinks and nibbles and a chance to catch up with those individuals really want to speak to. In other words, there is no plenary.
Rather than arrive at some anodyne group conclusion, we hope you take the most stimulating of your conversations online and share them with the rest of us. Digital cameras, and podcast recordings are welcome too. The conference tag is irishelection2007.
We ecnourage you to come along and ask you to spread the world.
Inaugural conference on blogging and politics to be held in Dublin on October 7th.
The heavyweights of the growing Irish blogging community will mix with politicians, journalists and interested members of the public at an event called “Blogging the Election” In Dublin in October. The event is being billed as an informal meeting and discussion on how new Internet tools like blogging can help and influence the very traditional political process in Ireland.
Politics website IrishElection.com will be running the event with the support of political commentator Mick Fealty from website SluggerOToole.com, campaigner Suzy Byrne from MamanPoulet.com and Internet lobbyist Damien Mulley.
Cian O’Flaherty from IrishElection.com stated “Irish Politics has yet to embrace and tap into the ability of the Internet to energise interest in politics and political campaigning. The “Blogging the Election” event will explore how bloggers can benefit elections and help shape the future of politics.”
Mick Fealty from Slugger O’Toole added “Next year’s general election holds possibilities for a blogging breakthrough in Irish politics and we will be exploring this issue in depth via experienced guest speakers and by facilitating a series of open spaces in which participants can host their own conversations, probing issues that they are passionate about.”
More information is available from www.IrishElection.com
About blogging and politics:
Blogging has revolutionised online communication in way that few previously imagined. It has allowed intelligent audiences to make faster and smarter responses that often disrupt traditional top down news flows. It puts considerable power in the hands of ordinary citizens to disrupt cosy consensuses of established political and media elites.
In the US, bloggers have shaped some of the biggest news stories and continue to provide a decisive influence, even inside political parties. In Britain, a new breed of aggressive anti-government bloggers has been generating stories that have brought them into the centre of the mainstream establishment, the Deputy Prime Minister the most senior politician to feel the heat.
I should hopefully be able to make it along, seems like it should be interesting enough. There are a few Fine Gael people interested in this area, so I’ll encourage them to come as well.
Hopefully I´ll get up too and bring some AV gear if needed. Sounds like it’ll be an interesting session.
where will it be on? in the city or out in the suburbs? how much will it cost? does one have to register in advance? if so how?
Details on location and guests are still in the works, we will update here as soon as we can. Also it will be possible to register interest in attending in the coming days or week.
It would be handy if the day kicked off after 1015 so those arriving from outside of Dublin have the best opportunity to connect while using public transportation.
Are there plans for a “Blogging the Election” conference up North sometime?
Will there be live blogging from the conference or some kind of a podcast about it?
I would love to come along, but have a creative writing workshop that day which is paid-for and non-refundable!
I am a blogging virgin and would like to attend this orgy and loose my virginity at the same time. look forward to learning some techniques.