DIALogue Tele-Seminars
Today’s Internet - Online Advocacy, the Great Equalizer
The ease of the internet has allowed many organizations the ability to be David but look like Goliath. Anyone can pick an issue or cause and with a little time and creativity launch a campaign. The speed and reach of the internet has taken grassroots advocacy to an entire new level. Chambers are starting to experiment with political blogs and email campaigns which will eventually become a major tool in their advocacy process. This session will focus on the many advocacy tools and strategies that can be used in government relations.
In this session you will also learn-
1. An understanding of the range of tools available
2. An understanding of the core uses for the internet in an advocacy campaign
3. An introduction to tactics for using these tools
Speaker
Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Online Advocacy
He is a long-time and frequent speaker and author on digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and mobile advocacy strategies. He is the founder of the Internet Advocacy Center; a Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet; an adjunct/visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and American Universities, where he teaches graduate courses on the intersection of the internet, politics, and the media; and a blogger at the award-winning TechPresident.com and DrDigiPol.com. Alan is also a founding team member of Media Bureau Networks (MBN), a pioneer in streaming media services; a contributing editor to Politics Online; serves on the editorial review boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the internet, politics, and government; and is a member of the Board of Directors for E-Democracy.org. He taught Political Science at George Mason University for nine years, where, in 1995, he launched the first-ever cyberpolitics course. With MBN, he webcasted live coverage of the 2000 Presidential Conventions. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Vice President for Online Advocacy Services division at Stateside Associates. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director of Training Programs at e-advocates (now called 720 Strategies). Alan Rosenblatt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston College, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia