Archive for May 30th, 2007

Upcoming Events — Digital Media, Damn Kids, The Cabal, and Let’s Drink for NOI

Hi folks, time for a quick plug for some upcoming events of note:

  • Looking a few weeks off, the Digital Media Conference will descend upon the AFI Theater in Silver Spring on June 22nd. It’s apparently “a ‘must-attend’ event for media, entertainment and technology businesses, investors, and policy-makers involved in the digital distribution of media and entertainment.” I’ll be there in full-schmooze mode; cocktail hour starts at 5:30.
  • If you can’t wait that long for your digital fix, head on over to The Future of Online Communications — Connecting with Young Voters on June 7th, sponsored by a slew of organizations including IPDI, Brookings and PR Newswire. I’ll be there to tell the kids to stay the hell off my lawn.
  • After that, we’ll all need some adult interaction, so don’t miss Hank Dearden and the Capital Cabal’s 2nd Tuesday New Media Happy Hour on June 12th. 80s music! Door prizes! Appetizers! What more could you want?
  • Me! Mmmm hmmmm, that’s what you could want (oh, baby)! But if you’re hankerin’ for a hunk of Delany on the 12th, look downtown: I’ll be at MCCXXIII (1223 for the Roman-numeral impaired) for a fundraiser on behalf of the New Organizing Institute. The low! low! price of $12 nets you a chance to hang out with a ton of cool folks while you support an organization that’s doing a terrific job training progressive online activists. If you can’t come, you can still donate online and store up good karma. But it’d be much more fun if you come by and spread the love on-site — the event runs 5:30-9:00, with sound and visuals by DC-based producers Reehee & Shred. C u there.

cpd

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MySpace Offers Campaigns Viral Fundraising Tool, But What Happens to the Data?

In a techPresident column posted yesterday evening, Nancy Scola raised some excellent questions about MySpace’s plans to offer political campaigns new fundraising tools, including ones designed to allow supporters to raise money on behalf of a candidate. Of course, if MySpace is collecting the money, it’s also collecting data on who’s giving and how much they’re contributing. As Nancy said:

On the one hand, MySpace is a free service, and presidential campaigns can simply choose not to deal with them. That said, high-profile presidential campaigns not using MySpace to build vibrant online followings open themselves up to stories like “Smith Fails the MySpace Test.” The situation the ’08 campaigns find themselves in points to a certain truth — “free” sites like MySpace and Facebook really aren’t free. We just pay for them in a currency other than money.

Others have raised questions about whether the service constitutes a campaign donation in itself and also about whether MySpace’s new status as a campaign contribution “bundler” will give the company at least the appearance of extra political influence. A question I haven’t seen asked — will this service be open to other campaigns, i.e. congressional or state races? What about fundraising for causes? Let’s keep an eye on this one.

cpd

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