News Release

Forum One Announces Speakers for DC Blogging Seminar

March 22, 2007

Veteran Bloggers from the ONE Campaign, Time Magazine, Education Sector, and Smithsonian Museum to Present

Forum One Communications, a leading Alexandria, Va.-based web strategy and development firm, has announced its speakers for its April 24 Web Executive Seminar for nonprofit organizations: "Blogging and Policy Organizations: Influential Channels for Social Change."

Speakers will include:

  • Kevin Carey, blogger for Education Sector's The Quick and the Ed.
  • Michael Edson, technology chief and director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Eye Level blog.
  • Christine Gorman, veteran journalist and former blogger for Time's Global Health Update (now writes the blog Health Media Watch).
  • Ginny Simmons, ONE Campaign's ONE Blog.

Speakers will discuss the strategic and tactical elements of blogging and present compelling case studies where their blogs helped their organizations further ideas, motivate key audiences, and promote action.

The session will also discuss latest journalism trends and how blogs can steer, supplement, and even supplant traditional media outlets.

Forum One's Web Executive Seminars are a regular series of concise, high-value events held at the National Press Club in Washington for senior executives and web site managers at nonprofit organizations.

Event Title: Blogging and Policy Organizations: Influential Channels for Social Change

Event Date: April 24, 2007, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Location: National Press Club, Washington, DC

Additional information and registration details are available on the event's homepage: at www.forumone.com/policyblog/

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