Personal Democracy Forum is a leading annual conference that explores how technology impacts politics and government. It attracts thought leaders over six days of sessions, including a Google Fellows meeting. The schedule includes bootcamp training, two days of main conferences, and an unconference with links shared to tools for civic participation, fundraising, and visualizing social media data.

1. Personal Democracy Forum 2010 Personal Democracy Forum is the world’s leading conference exploring and analyzing technology's impact on politics and government. For six years, PdF has attracted thought leaders and the most connected, driven people in the industry to come together and learn. I got invited by Google as one of the 20 Google Fellows - selected based on their experience in turning ideas into action and developing new applications of technology in the political or civic arena. Busy schedule from Wednesday to Saturday: Bootcamp, PdF day 1 (inc. Google Fellow meeting & Microsoft’s coctail parties), PdF day 2, Unconference

2. TwitterSlurp Feed

3. CivicoLive

4. Audience

5. Bootcamp Using video and personal storytelling for mobilizing your cause: http://invisiblepeople.tv Word Tree is an interesting visualization/analysis/search tool for unstructured text: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Word_Tree.html See how social media has been used to get clean water for more than million people: http://www.charitywater.org Google Sidewiki breaking censorship/moderation in web discussion boards and comment threads? http://www.google.com/sidewiki A new kind of fund-raising strategy for non-profits: http://www.causebee.com A nice story about random act of kindness: http://sites.google.com/site/93dollarclub

6. InvisiblePeople.tv

7. Word Tree with Google Suggest Data

8. CharityWater.org

9. Causebee

10. Google Sidewiki

11. 93 Dollar Club

12. Day 1 Video archive: http://pdfnyc.civicolive.com Twitter feed: http://personaldemocracy.com/twitter Using Word Trees to visualize Google suggest data: http://bit.ly/ctr7f9 Mass-audience visualizations that let experts find hidden patterns from social media data: http://flowingmedia.com/gallery.html Collect, visualize and analyze your social network from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube or email with this open source Excel plug-in: http://nodexl.codeplex.com [ examples ] Political campaign, transparency or participation platform releases by Google, Microsoft, IBM, ElectionMall, VoteIQ…

13. Phrase Net (by Flowing Media) Phrase Nets use a simple form of pattern matching to provide multiple views of the concepts contained a book, speech, or poem. The image below is a word graph made from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice." The program has drawn a network of words, where two words are connected if they appear together in a phrase of the form "X and Y”. For instance, "Jane" and "Elizabeth" are connected by a thicker arrow since the phrase "Jane and Elizabeth" occurs 10 times in the novel. The result of this simple pattern matching scheme is a surprisingly coherent view of some of the concepts in the books.

14. NodeXL

15. Day 2 Opinion Space - engage diverse communities, solicit and display their viewpoints, and highlight the most insightful suggestions, U.S. State Department as first client: http://opinion.berkeley.edu/ Morningside Analytics discovers and monitors online networks that form around particular ideas and identifies thought leaders with standing in these audiences: http://morningside-analytics.com You ask and vote on questions for the candidates. The top ten questions will be presented to the candidates. Candidates will post their video answers. You decide if they actually answered the questions: http://www.10questions.com

16. Opinion Space

17. Morningside Analytics

18. 1Questions.com

19. Unconference Great tool for real-time collaborative text writing: http://piratepad.net/pdfuncon

20. Summary "We have 21st century technology, but we're using 20th century paradigms to run it."