On October 18, 2008 Australian Politics TV will host Australia’s first ever politico bloggers and online activists conference. The draft conference agenda and registration form are at Australian Politics TV – OzPoliCon 2008
There has been a growing wealth of activism taking place on the Internet. From blogs, to YouTube, to discussion boards, online sit-ins, electronic parliament role playing forums and even MySpace and FaceBook with their respective ’cause’ applications users can add to their profiles.
There is also evidence of an increased ‘professionalism’ of online activism with the advent of groups like GetUp! here in Australia, which followed similar kinds of online groups formed to support Democrats in the presidential and general elections in 2004. These proved to be a very successful method of engaging people in the US and has shown a great deal of support among Australia’s online community.
In addition it’s hard to ignore the weight that the increase in political blogging has contributed to election and issue-based campaigns. There is a very quickly growing list of blogs dedicated to Australian politics and how it relates to people locally, state-wide, nationally and internationally. And there is a growing number of tools and social networking sites developing based on these kinds of things.
With the growing number of politico bloggers, vloggers, YouTubists, and online activists I thought it was a great time to bring together Australia’s online activists in a conference or should I say unconference kind of style.
The conference represents the first inaugural politico bloggers and online activists gathering. The purpose of which is to share information, experiences and knowledge about online activism, campaigning methods and techniques; which of course involves politics organised and unorganised. It is also an opportunity to discuss current trends in technology use and online issue-based and election campaigning, electronic civil disobedience and Australia’s Internet and communications laws.
The draft conference agenda and registration form are at Australian Politics TV – OzPoliCon 2008
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