Tag: Netroots Nation

Net­roots Nation is an annu­al con­fer­ence that pro­vides train­ings, resources and con­nec­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties to help pro­gres­sive activists cre­ate a more pro­gres­sive and just world. It draws up to 4,000 atten­dees from around the coun­try and beyond. The North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute sends a del­e­ga­tion of staff to par­tic­i­pate in Net­roots Nation each sum­mer. This is an archive of our cov­er­age from all of the years the con­ven­tion has been held, from 2006 to the present.

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LIVE from Minneapolis: Building a stronger netroots community abroad

by Patrick Stickney

Here in the Unit­ed States, we don’t always hear about efforts abroad to uti­lize social media and devel­op new ways of orga­niz­ing online, because we don’t give our neigh­bors in the world com­mu­ni­ty much atten­tion. But we ought to, because pro­gres­sives in oth­er coun­tries are try­ing to make use of the Inter­net to bring about […]

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LIVE from Minneapolis: Drew Westen, Tate Linden discuss keys to effective messaging

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good morn­ing from Min­neapo­lis! Today is the first day of Net­roots Nation, and the NPI team’s first full day in the Twin Cities. I’m at a break­out ses­sion called Get the Mes­sage?, orga­nized by Dar­cy Burn­er and fea­tur­ing Drew West­en and Tate Lin­den. The ses­sion was adver­tised as a pan­el, but it’s real­ly been more […]

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White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer to speak at Netroots Nation

by Andrew Villeneuve

The line­up of speak­ers for the sixth annu­al Net­roots Nation is final­ly start­ing to fill out, with just a week and three days to go before the con­ven­tion begins. Orga­niz­ers announced this morn­ing that White House Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor Dan Pfeif­fer will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in a ques­tion and answer ses­sion with atten­dees. Pfeif­fer will like­ly be […]