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Using This Wiki
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Parallel Presentations
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The Parallel Presentations are three 30 minute presentations that run in parallel and event participations choose which one they attend.

The style of the presentation is decided by those making it, but presentation that involve input and dialogue tend to be more interesting.

Presentation Topics
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Presentation topics can be proposed by anyone.  Once a presentation is proposed, event participants need to express their interest in those topics they are most interested in and provide input for those presenting.

Presentation Selection
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If there are more proposed parallel presentations than space available, then the presentations will be decided based on which are the most popular based on sign-ups on the wiki pages.

From Last Year
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Some of the `ideas from last year's event </events/ecampaigning-forum/2007/wiki/ParallelPresentations>`_ are likely still relevent. If so, re-propose them.

Proposed Presentations
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Add your proposed parallel presentations here by pressing edit above (or via the comments box).  Be sure to include the name of the person who will do the presentation and any other information to attract supporters for the presentation.

Writing a good presentation proposal is especially important if more than three presentations are proposed since there is only time for three, those three will be decided based on how popular they are up until the week before the event.

#. Day 1: `Elections: how can we use new media to help global justice campaigns win? <#id1>`_
#. Day 1: `Mobile phone videos enliven the web <#id2>`_
#. Day 2: `Campaigning in China: Opportunities and Constraints <#id3>`_
#. Day 2: `Keeping the movement/list alive after an election <#id4>`_


1) Elections: how can we use new media to help global justice campaigns win?
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An exploration led by Glen Tarman of BOND with other key contributors with recent experience in campaignign around national elections.

Many recent elections, in Western democracies particularly, have seen collective campaigning on global issues such as development, and increasingly climate change, with action at a local and national level targeted at political parties and prospective parliamentarians. New media has often been a vital tool in this activity, and I am guessing a fair few eCampaigning Forum participants would agree that we have barely scratched the surface of the possible. 

Elections offer activists/concerned citizens, NGOs and civil society networks a chance to ensure candidates and a new parliament are aware of their role in helping to make poverty history and stopping climate chaos. Civil society organisations can build favourable conditions for realizing development and environment policy goals after an election by pushing for the required changes in the lead up to the nation going to the polls. Elections are a key opportunity as part of the ongoing aim to influence the policies of political parties and in working to ensure parliament holds government(s) to account on policies and practices relating to global justice.

There will be a UK election next year most probably and June 2009 will see the biggest trans-national election in human history across Europe (for which alliances like Global Call for Action Against Poverty are already gearing up). With the election in the US and lessons from Australia and elsewhere, looking at ecampaigning on global issues in relation to elections could help generate strong ideas for upcoming elections and, more generally, on strategic campaigning and new media that can be applied in other times. 

If participants signed up for the eCampaigning Forum would like a session on this that would also be a feed in to election campaign planning I'd be happy to facilitate, with others, and connect people in....

Led by?: Glen Tarman, Ben Brandzel, Oliver MacColl, Paul Hilder

This is the post-election analysis of the way that GetUp worked in the 2007 Australian Federal Election - http://www.getup.org.au/files/media/GetupElectionAnalysis.pdf


2) Mobile phone videos enliven the web
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Supporters and campaign staff can often create more timely, and sometimes even more interesting and relevant web content than dedicated web editors or press officers.

Mobile phones make it fast and cheap to add video to this enormous pool of supporter-created content. Tools to get this content from your supporters must solve the four problems of uploading, transcoding, moderation and display.

Kevin Jardine from `Radagast Solutions <http://radagast.biz>`_ has helped several clients add mobile phone video to their websites, including

- Greenpeace UK - `Stop Heathrow <http://stopheathrow.org/>`_
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- `The Northern Ireland Youth Forum <http://tenpoundsworthofchange.org/elgg/mod/get_multimedia/wall.php>`_

In this presentation, Kevin will explain the steps required and the open source software available to make it happen.



3) Campaigning in China: Opportunities and Constraints
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A presentation by Fish (Xin Yu) on campaigning in China based on his experience with Greenpeace China. It will consist of:

- A brief introduction about the development of Internet in China
- The E-campaign strategy of Greenpeace China based on a case study--"Bring Your Own Chopsticks"(2007-2008)
- How Greenpeace chooses the public engagement subjects and to utilize the limited capacity to enlarge the impact to young Chinese generation about making a difference under the unique situation of the one-party state.



4) Keeping the movement/list alive after an election
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This year is a big year in the US because of the election, and I'm sure that all organisations are extremely focused on what they can achieve within this context. 

But how can we keep supporters engaged after an election?

I - Oliver MacColl - am happy to introduce this topic, as former National (online to offline) Organiser for GetUp.org.au for the Australian election last year, but would like to really get the discussion started because I think it's going to be a crucial issue towards the end of the year in the US, and next year in the UK.

Ideally, it'd be good to come out of this with a few different ideas that an organisation could turn to when, a few weekends before the election, the realisation hits home that we need a plan for the post-election phase.