Julie R. Blitzer

Location: New York | NY | USA
Speaking Topics: drupal | grassroots organizing | User experience | interaction design | information architecture | nonprofit tech | online campaign strategy | politics | social media
Spoken Languages: English

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I work at Advomatic, a web development firm based in New York. I specialize in online communications strategy for non-profits, advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

Previous Presentations: 
SXSW Interactive 2010
Organizing 2.0 - December 2009
YDA Convention - 2009
GeekLab @ IPDI's Politics Online - 2009
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Organizing 2.0: How to Plan for Your Website Redesign
Politics Online: Click-to-Call: Why and How?
YDA Convention training: Community Organizers Take On Marriage Equality
Not Just for Obama: New Media Gets Local (SXSW 2010)

Deanna Zandt

Location: New York | NY | USA
Speaking Topics: community | media technology | politics | social change | social media | social networking | tech activism | Web 2.0 | women in technology

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Deanna Zandt

Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet, Hightower Lowdown and Feministing. She works with groups to create and implement effective web strategies toward organizational goals of civic engagement and empowerment, and uses her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance to complement her technical expertise.

Previous Presentations: 
Women Action & The Media
Facing Race
The Media Consortium
NAMAC
Free Press
Personal Democracy Forum
Bioneers
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Empowering Online Communities