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RightOnline Summit

by afp | June 24, 2008 at 3:17 PM
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Promoted - this can be an important conference for the Right to begin organizing around ideas and people. - Jon Henke

For some reason, at Americans for Prosperity we seem to confronting the left head on quite a bit lately. You may have read about our little adventure last week, when we buzzed Al Gore’s mansion in a hot air balloon (to expose the high cost of global warming alarmism…)

 
Well, as many of you know, the YearlyKos / Netroots Nation Convention will be taking place in Austin, Texas from July 17th – 20th, and again, all of us at Americans for Prosperity weren’t content to just sit by and let them have all the fun! While the left convenes for their annual meeting of the tin foil hat wearers, I invite all of you to take part in a conservative gathering that will be going on just across town. Americans for Prosperity is hosting the RightOnline Summit on July 18th and 19th at the Renaissance Austin Hotel.
RightOnline will bring together hundreds of grassroots activists, conservative bloggers and new media activists from across the country, and representatives from leading state and national conservative organizations.
 
It’s no secret that the left is far ahead of us online. The intent of this Summit is to focus on how the different elements of our movement can work more effectively toward achieving our shared goals, and how we can use the internet to do just that.
 
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers, including: Michelle Malkin, John Fund, Erick Erickson, Michael Steele, Bob Novak, and many others.  
 
A number of other organizations will be joining this effort, conducting training seminars and networking events. The Leadership Institute will provide new media training to grassroots activists and representatives from conservative groups, Sam Adams Alliance will be holding one of their Samsphere events for Texas bloggers, Heritage Foundation will provide training in online research, and Media Research Center will conduct seminars on detecting and countering MSM bias.
 
For more information, please visit: http://www.RightOnline.com and don’t hesitate to e-mail me if you have any questions (etelford@afphq.org).
 
This is going to be a great event, I hope to see all of you there!

 

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In Texas

Submitted by Sean Hackbarth on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 16:24.

The best part about this event is it's outside Washington, D.C. Getting more people beyond the beltway active and engaged will increase the Right's success.

Isn't it just a little oximoronic...

Submitted by davidfarrar on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 19:31.

...to require someone to go somewhere to attend an "online" summit?  These types of "online" summits are popping up all the time now it seems. You would think the first thing these "online" entities would do is actually host their summits ONLINE!

I am sure these people don't need me to tell them how to host an actual online summit,  but for God sake, be innovative.

 The first thing I would do is video-conference with Michelle Malkin, John Fund, Erick Erickson, Michael Steele, Bob Novak and anybody else you may need to get the job done.

ex animo

davidfarrar

 

Face-to-face contact

Submitted by Sean Hackbarth on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 23:29.

Face-to-face contact is different than simply watching video. There's a reason CPAC isn't virtual or why face-to-face contact is so important to Silicon Valley.

Wish I could be in Texas

Submitted by MWright on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 18:48.

It sounds great, especially after looking at the agenda for the Kos gathering across town from you: Netroots Nation

Here's a good workshop description:  "One of the great debates of blogging is the general rudeness and shrillness acceptable within the discourse. Does profanity exempt you from being taken seriously? Are you necessarily "calmer" because you don't drop a few four-letter words? We'll discuss the tone and attitude of various pockets of bloggers, and also why, no matter what, Michelle Malkin is still worse."

And then there's "Measuring and Managing Your Online Paid Advertising Campaigns" .

Capitalism...it's the new black.

With so many Dem bloggers heading to Denver for the convention, will YK attendance be down compared to Chicago 2007 or Vegas 2006?

 

This will be an important event

Submitted by Freedoms Truth on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 20:03.

I will be there. ;-)

I blog at these places:

http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/

http://no-bama.blogspot.com/

Just for the record on that dKos, heres why the leftists really are worse.

1) They come up with a hate speech site

2) It's an open-ended Drupal site and anyone can post.

3) I posted this here:

http://www.hatetalkexpress.com/node/18

4) It got deleted quietly. No matter. You can see it here too:

http://no-bama.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-supporter-lashes-out.html

Conclusion: The dKos/DUmmies are as slow-witted as they are foul-mouthed.