Time for a quick update about next week's Personal Democracy Forum.
First, we’ve added two lunchtime breakout sessions to stay on top of breaking events:
*On Monday at 1:00pm, we’ll have a workshop on “Social Media and Iran” led by Katrin Verclas of MobileActive, Davar Iran Ardalan of NPR (and author of the memoir “My Name is Iran”), John Kelly of Morningside Analytics (see their report on mapping the Iranian blogosphere), and our own Nancy Scola, associate editor of techPresident, whose been doing a fantastic job condensing all the daily news around Iran.
*On Tuesday at 1:00pm, we’ll have a conversation on “Accountability Journalism Online” with Jay Rosen of NYU and Pressthink interviewing Dan Froomkin of NiemanWatchdog.org (and until recently a blogger for the Washington Post).
Second, we’ve set up a conference wiki that is solely for the use of registered PdF attendees. If you're attending, you can access a list of fellow attendees, and add your own contact coordinates if you want to share personal information. The wiki also includes a sign-up page for our Monday evening BOF (“birds-of-a-feather”) sessions, and plenty of useful information on logistics around the event—including the inside scoop on how attendees can win free tickets on Virgin America while you’re attending the conference.
Third, we’re looking for volunteers to help videotape the breakout sessions. Please email pdf@personaldemocracy.com or add your name to the “video volunteers” page of the conference wiki.
Fourth, check out our nifty "Twitterslurp" page, built by our good friends at the Bivings Group, which is tracking, slicing and dicing all the tweets people are writing about #pdf09.
It’s still not too late to tell friends about the conference, but we’re getting close to capacity and online registration will close this Friday. (People can register at the door, but full registration fees will apply.)