By Ciaran Giles 12:29 p.m. ET BARCELONA, Spain - The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.Andrew Rasiej, founder of the PersonalDemocracyForum series, said tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube help people organize...
Barcelona - The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political technology conference said on Saturday. Speakers at the PersonalDemocracyForum in Barcelona highlighted President Barack Obama's election as an example of how the Internet was...
BARCELONA, Spain — In conjunction with the launch of ElectionMall’s new ElectionMall.EU website, Ravi Singh, CEO of ElectionMall Technologies, will be speaking in Barcelona, Spain at the first ever European conference held by the PersonalDemocracyForum. For the last six years, the PersonalDemocracyForum has served as a hub for American politicos,...
Last Saturday I was speaking at the PersonalDemocracyForum in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. I met a lot of interesting people and learnt a lot, but I only started taking notes during the Final Plenary. Sitting in this panel was none less than Esther Dyson ( @edyson ). Wikipedia describes her as a journalist and commentator on emerging digital technology, a founding...
Anyone who has ever been associated with new media marketing and watched a YouTube success story wonders: how and why did this video resonate with the market, and how might I produce such a 2-minute wonder? I remember attending a panel at the PersonalDemocracyForum (08) and listening to four people who had done just that. And I remember one panelist saying there was some unknown...
I’ve just come back from speaking at the European PersonalDemocracyForum in Barcelona. Civico have sound files of all the events . It was a fascinating experience, not least because of the conversations I had in the down time with people whose expertise and experience were very different from my own. For the first time I got a real sense of just how open the road ahead...
I’m on my way back to Brussels from PersonalDemocracyForumEurope in Barcelona. I enjoyed participating in the conference, and was also very grateful to have been able to moderate one of the sessions there. Some of the everyday practical conclusions of PdF Europe will become clearer in due course, but for the moment [...]
The Bivings Group powers the PersonalDemocracyForum website and is proud to run Twitterslurp, a Twitter hashtag aggregator tool being used by those attending and monitoring this year’s European PersonalDemocracyForum Conference, currently being held in Barcelona. Use #pdfeu to join hundreds of attendees of the conference, which focuses on the many...
BARCELONA, Spain (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- In conjunction with the launch of ElectionMall's new ElectionMall.EU website, Ravi Singh, CEO of ElectionMall Technologies, will be speaking in Barcelona, Spain at the first ever European conference held by the PersonalDemocracyForum. For the last six years, the PersonalDemocracyForum has served as a hub for American...
BARCELONA, Spain (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- In conjunction with the launch of ElectionMall's new ElectionMall.EU website, Ravi Singh, CEO of ElectionMall Technologies, will be speaking in Barcelona, Spain at the first ever European conference held by the PersonalDemocracyForum. For the last six years, the PersonalDemocracyForum has served as a hub for American...
This picture is much better blown up, but still, I like it - it was the view from the conference room where we had my panel discussion today about the blogs and their influence, and it's got a bit of a futureworld meets old Europe - which is very much Barcelona, and this conference (PersonalDemocracyForum - Europe). It was an interesting panel with Mick Fealty, a very interesting...
Now in Barcelona preparing for a couple of panel discussions at the PersonalDemocracyForum ... Gavin’s here too ... I’ll be tweeting bits and pieces from here through the next couple of days… If you’re not doing it already you can pick up my feed from here (and what everyone is saying here )... Hashtag: #pdfeu We’ll still be live blogging (see below...
If you want to follow along with the PersonalDemocracyForum Europe conference live by audio, we're pleased to be partnering with Civico, an internet radio station based in Birmingham, England, which will be streaming all the sessions over the next two days at http://www.civicolive.com/pdfeu . read more
Hi everyone! Welcome to Spain 2.0, it’s only 1 day to go and the PersonalDemocracyForum Europe will begin. With this entry I will talk about the situation of PersonalDemocracy in Spain, covering the relevant laws, the Spanish Government ministries that touch on the subject, then through the Parliament and finally I will talk about the different Regions....
