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Personal Democracy Forum Conference 2005 Rocked!

Thank you to all who attended this year's PDF Conference! It was a great success thanks to you. Please check the site soon for conference video clips. In the meantime, be sure to download our series of conference podcasts, check out photos from the event, view conference video clips read portions of the Main Hall Back Chat and read conference coverage below.



PDF Conference Fires Up Panelists and the Peanut Gallery
by Kate Kaye
This year's Personal Democracy Forum Conference was truly a multimedia meeting of minds, where panelists and attendees spent as much time networking in-person as they did online. The conference goal: to frame the ongoing evolution of technology and media and their impact on our political lives. Perhaps PDF founder Andrew Rasiej put it best during his opening remarks when he proclaimed boldly, “If you want to know what’s coming next, the answer starts here.”
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Fear and Loafing in NYC
by Chris Nolan
Chris spent her PDF '05 time in the trenches: sipping coffee and gabbing with attendees. Get her take on this year's event.
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Press Coverage
Insurgents of Labor, Unite!
The Nation, 5/16/05

Podcasts go broadcast
MarketWatch, May 16

CNN’s Inside Politics, 5/16/05

Internet and Politics: U.S. Style Report from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City
OhMyNews, 5/16/05

Consultants: Politicos Coming Around On Online Ads
Mediapost, 5/17/05

Blog Coverage
BuzzMachine.com, 5/16/05 and 5/17/05

HughHewitt.com, 5/16/05

Blinq, 5/16/05

Bayosphere, 5/16/05

WorldChanging, 5/20/05

View PDF's Conference Press Release.

Technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. Personal Democracy Forum is a hub for the exciting conversation underway between political professionals, technologists, and anyone else invigorated by the remarkable potential of technology to engage citizens in the democratic process.

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