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The 2008 eCampaigning Forum was in Oxford, UK on 10-11 April. A pre-event dinner gathering helped participants get acquainted. Pre-meetings by Oxfam and GCAP also occurred.

The eCampaigning Forum is held at St Anne's College, Woodstock Road Oxford, OX2 6HS, UK. See details on the location of the venue, directions and if you don't want to stay on-site, alternative accommodation.

Date Time  
Pre Meetings for those who want them
8-9 April   Pre Meetings: GCAP and Oxfam (Private)
eCampaigning Forum Pre-Event Dinner
  19:30 Oxford: Informal dinner for eCampaigning Forum participants to kick-start connections and conversations at St Anne's College
2008 eCampaigning Forum
Thu 10 April 09:00 Registration, coffee/tea, informal discussions
(Oxford) 09:30 Welcome, introduction and agenda review (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
  10:00 Speed Meeting
  10:30 Speakers (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre):
  1. Ben Brandzel - Former Advocacy Director of MoveOn and worked on John Edwards for President campaign
  2. Karina Brisby - Oxfam GB's Interactive Campaign Manager
  11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
  11:45 Peer-to-peer Topic Introduction
  12:00 Small Groups: Peer-to-peer discussions Suggested topics have come from input. Actual topics depend on what people 'claim' (see methodology).
  13:30 Lunch and individual discussions
  14:30 Regroup: One Short Presentation and process check
  14:45 Small Groups: Peer-to-peer discussions tea/coffee/snacks at your leisure
Suggested topics have come from input. Actual topics depend on what people 'claim' (see methodology).
  17:30 Regroup: Presentations (in parallel)
  1. Elections: How do we use new media to help global justice campaigns win? (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
  2. Mobile phone videos enliven the web
  3. Do you do do a presentation / workshop? Just put it on the wiki now.
  18:00 Formal end of day 1
  19:30 Dinner and drinks at St Anne's College
  21:00 Documentary Viewing: We Are Together followed by discussion with producer Teddy Leifer (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
     
Fri 11 April 09:00 Arrival, coffee/tea, informal discussions
(Oxford) 09:15 Regroup: Agenda Review and Parallel Presentations
  1. Campaigning in China - Fish Yu, Greenpeace China (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
  2. Keeping the movement/list alive after an election
  3. Do you do do a presentation / workshop? Just put it on the wiki now.
  10:00 Small Groups: Peer-to-peer discussions
tea/coffee/snacks at your leisure
Suggested topics have come from input. Actual topics depend on what people 'claim' (see methodology).
  12:30 Lunch and individual discussions
  13:30 Regroup: One Short Presentation and process check (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
  13:45 Regroup: Topic Review then Small Groups: Peer-to-peer discussions
Suggested topics have come from input. Actual topics depend on what people 'claim' (see methodology).
  16:30 Regroup: Short Presentations (10 min. each)
  • See list (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
  • Alternative: Flexi Peer-To-Peer (Rooms: As available)
  17:20 Closing Session (Room: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre)
  17:30 Event formally ends
  19:00 Dinner and drinks in Oxford for those still around)
     

Topics

This is a starting list of topics based on informal input. The actual topics will be determined by which ones attract the most interest before and atthe event - so get involved to ensure your interests and objectives for attending are met.

  1. Campaigning 2.0 Topics
    1. Using Facebook & MySpace for campaigning? (and what they have achieved)
    2. Campaign Aggregation: Learning and improving on the Bali collaboration experience
    3. Next Generation Social Networking Tools: OpenSocial, next-generation Facebook groups, etc.
    4. Strategy: Should organisations build their own social networks (Obama campaign and the growing list of white label social network platforms) or utilise networks where the supporters are (Facebook)?
    5. Campaigning via Mobilie Phones in 2008: Successes, pitfalls and the emerging potential
    6. What is online community? Is the nature of online communications more push (email) or pull (RSS) in today's world?
    7. Developing Facebook applications? (more technical oriented)
    8. What using video has achieved and how
    9. Widgets: Getting the content/action appeals/etc off our own websites and onto socialnetworking sites, blogs, phones, etc. Success stories, practical tips, best practices, what works and what doesn't...
  2. Campaigning Essentials Topics
    1. Email: making the most of it
    2. Analysing the results
  3. eCampaigning Horizons - Looking ahead to what is coming in the near future
  4. Suggest other topics - its your event

Topic Timing in the Agenda

Topics will be allocated to time slots one week before the event and then need to be 'claimed' at the event by someone who wishes to leade it at the event. Between now and then suggested topics will be added as they are raised. Any topics with the highest interest will be allocated to different time slots so they don't conflict. Those with no or very low interest will be cancelled. At the event, extra time can be spent on the above topics as people are willing and new topics can be added as necessary.

There are thus four 'official' time slots for peer-to-peer topics which covers 75% of the event agenda. If you stayed for the full time of each topic, you could participate in four topics. However you also are free to switch between topics at any time, so if you are not learning anything, participating or just want to explore a few different topics then switch.

Facilitators

Facilitators with experience in the methodology used at the eCampaigning Forum has been arranged.

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