CitizenJane Politics: NY Event: Personal Democracy Forum
As you’ve probably noticed from the last post, we’ve been a little swamped! But we wanted to sneak in a quick post about Personal Democracy Forum, a very cool conference coming up June 29 & 30 in New York City. The conference, themed “We.gov,” is one of the largest conferences examining innovations in technology, politics, social media, and civic engagement. The conference features some great speakers:
- Clay Shirky, Author
- Jeff Jarvis, Author
- Craig Newmark, Craigslist
- Randy Zuckerberg, Facebook
- Nate Silver, 538.com
- Vivek Kundra, White House CIO
- Joe Rospars, New Media Director of the Obama campaign
- Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us”
- Mark Pesce, Futurist
- Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder, Twitter
We know it’s short notice, since the conference is a week away, but if you’re in New York and can spare a day or two, it promises to be an exciting event. And if you’re reading this post right now you can get a $100 discount on your registration by using the coupon code CitizenJane at registration. Registration is located at http://bit.ly/Pdf2009CJ.
Hope to see you there!

