Social Tech Brewing Co.

Thanks to everyone who attended the Social Tech Brewing Ottawa event on Jan 26th in our new venue at The Code Factory cafe.

Our guest speaker was Gatineau-based communications/advocacy specialist Pam Kapoor (www.pamkapoor.ca) who spoke about her experience in fall 08 working in Ohio on early voter and get-out-the-vote campaigns to support Barack Obama. Pam described how grassroots mobilization efforts such as Vote Today Ohio delivered thousands of voters to early polls and made use of coordinated online/phone outreach, and demographic data sharing between progressive causes supporting Obama. Q&A session focused as well on online political campaigning in Canada.

A podcast of the event was produced by Chris Brown of Liquid Visual, and is hosted by OpenConcept.

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Obama's election victory last November has been hailed as the coming of age for online political campaigning. In Canada we've seen the growing importance of online campaigning in recent elections, and in the progressive coalition movement that nearly brought down the government at the end of last year.

As we look forward to new political landscapes both in Canada and the US, what can we expect to see in the new tools and best practices in online advocacy and campaign organizing?

Join Social Tech Brewing Ottawa from 5:00 to 6:30 pm on Monday, Jan 26th (the day of Canada's parliamentary re-boot) for a discussion about new exciting times in online politics and advocacy.

To jump-start our discussion, Pam Kapoor (Gatineau-based communications/advocacy specialist) will share some of her experiences as Press Officer and Cincinnati Regional Director with Vote Today Ohio, a key contributor to the early-voting and GOTV (get out the vote) effort that delivered a necessary win for Obama in that critical swing state.