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DC Week: Grassroots Communication panel

The Advocacy 2.0 day of Digital Capital Week started with a fascinating panel on how technology is impacting grassroots communications. The conversation centered around the use of social media and internet technology for political campaigns and non-profit organizations.

Mediator Brandon Macsata started the discussion with a key issue,...

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DC Week: The Future of Media Panel

Fittingly, Digital Capital week finished out it’s “Media 2.0” day with a look into the not-so-distant future.   “The Future of Media”, a panel with representatives from CNN , AOL , the Washington Post and Washington Life Magazine, seemingly taken from the core of old guard media, made attendees curious to see what exactly the future holds in store for both upcoming social media platforms and on-the-cusp-of-change traditional media outlets....

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DC Week: Jeff Pulver Launches ‘JustCoz’ Twitter Donation Platform

One of the most anticipated talks of Media 2.0 day was ‘The State of Now” with self-described ‘technology anthropologist” and entrepreneur Jeff Pulver. He certainly did not let the crowd down, with Tweets coming into Twitterslurp saying “Awesome session with Jeff Pulver about the real time internet. Listen. Connect. Share....

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DC Week Media 2.0 Day: USA Today’s Social & Traditional Media Panel

Digital Capital Week 2010 has begun, and the first tough question to be asked is: how can traditional media harness the community-building power of modern social media tools. This question was the focus of the Media 2.0 panel on Tuesday, and the panelists were rife with answers.

Robert Michael Murray,...

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Jack Dorsey Debuts @Square Mobile Payment Device in D.C.

On Tuesday evening Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey attended a fundraising reception for Missouri Congressional Candidate Tommy Sowers to officially debut his latest invention, Square which currently allows anyone with an Iphone, Android or laptop to send or accept payments for just about anything. Mobile credit card readers are not new....

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