Last week, I had the great honor of attending my third Personal Democracy Forum in New York City. This year was even more special than years past, as I was selected as a Google Fellow for the conference. The work the 19 other Google Fellows are doing at the intersection of politics and technology all around the world is truly amazing, and I was honored to have the opportunity to learn from them at the conference. Check out these amazing individuals and the work they are doing by clicking here.
This year's #PdF10 focused on answering this question: Can the internet fix politics? The overwhelming consensus of the conference can be summed up by this: No. But we can change politics using the internet as a tool. As promised, I hyper-tweeted the entire conference, attempting to provide you all who couldn't make it to New York with the best tips and tricks I learned at the conference. An archive of my tweets can be found here courtesy of one of my favorite Twitter apps, SnapBird.org. The total count of my tweeting frenzy from #pdf10 was 283 tweets, but more importantly (keeping quality v. quantity in mind), I was mentioned on Twitter 452 times at the conference - more than anyone else using the #pdf10 hashtag (though @cshirky and @craignewmark came close). Thank you as always to everyone who followed along with my barrage of tweets and constantly retweeted my content!
As always, #PdF10 was an amazing two days of learning and sharing with the smartest and most talented people at the intersection of politics and technology. I can't wait for #PdF11! Until then, I will leave you with three of my favorite presentations from this year's Personal Democracy Forum:
Closing Plenary with Saul Anuzis, Nick Bilton, Cory Booker, Arianna Huffington, Tim O’Reilly, Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry
"Rethinking Leadership" by Clay Shirky
"Rethinking Media" by Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos
