New trends, Important Thoughts: don’t miss our coverage of the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC: Part 3

Lauren Coleman, Punch Media Group, Inc. So, back on the PDF trail and ready to Day 2′s events. Rose Hall was packed to hear the CIO of the United States, as he is referred to, Vivek Kundra unveil the beta version of usaspending.com, a site which will enable transparency of government spending like never before. [...]

New trends, Important Thoughts: don’t miss our coverage of the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC: Part 2

Lauren Coleman, Punch Media Group, Inc. – A woman from the audience asks about how young people of color are using technology. And as Rospars and McKinnon stumble around the answer after a bit Rasiej acknowledges the elephant in the room regarding lack of people of color in attendance (and I guess on these panels?) [...]

New trends, Important Thoughts: don’t miss our coverage of the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC: Part 1

Lauren Coleman, Punch Media Group A nice summer morning finds BlackPoliticsOnTheWeb.com headed to The Personal Democracy Forum (a mouthful and bit of an awkward name for branding but we’ll go with it, as well as its acronym PDF). This is the organization’s 6th event but our first in attending. And apparently, this is the place [...]

Final Thoughts

- I know all the impact of this will really not sink in until much later. This is just so much that took place! But what you don’t know, dear readers is how things were handled for transportation for delegates, media, etc after all the fabulousness inside. Oh but wait – first of all, a [...]

Things just keep getting better and better

- Things just keep getting better and better. So, some skill and diplomacy was needed last night. Not only did I post part of this blog during Kerry’s speech but then had to time it so that I could at least watch Joe Biden’s acceptance speech on the monitors and hear it on the audio [...]

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