Presidential Blogging 101- Bob Dole Center

On the evening of Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 PM, the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics in Lawrence, Kansas will host a panel on "Blog to the Chief: The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Election" as part of its Annual Presidential Lecture series.

http://www.doleinstituteblog.org/

Who's gonna be there? Check it out under the fold....

Guests include prominent political bloggers and professionals such as:

Patrick Hynes (President of New Media Strategics, blog consultant for Sen. John McCain's Straight Talk America PAC, and the founder and proprietor of the blog Ankle Biting Pundits)

Jerome Armstrong (MyDD - My Direct Democracy) co-author of "Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots and the Rise of People-Powered Politics"

Erick Erickson (managing editor of RedState.com, the largest conservative community blog on the Internet)

Joan McCarter (contributing editor at Daily Kos, writing as "mcjoan" and one of a dozen bloggers who attended a private meeting with President Bill Clinton in September, 2006)

Scott Johnson (co-founder of the blog Powerline, Time magazine's first and so far only blog of the year [2004])

The moderator of the event will be David D. Perlmutter, KU professor of Journalism & Mass Communications and author of Blogwars: The New American Political Battleground (forthcoming, 2007, Oxford).

Moderator's Introduction by David D. Perlmutter:

The ascent of blogs seems all the more remarkable when one considers
that the word "weblog" was coined fewer than 10 years ago, and that
political blogs became really prominent and popular only in 2003-2004 with
the great experiment of Howard Dean's presidential bid. But there is no
question that now, as we look back at a mid-term election that was full
of stories about YouTube and Facebook and blogswarms and blog-driven
fundraising, political blogs have become an important and integral part
of modern campaigns and elections as well as politics and policy-making.

During the program panelists will debate the big question: What role will blogs play in electing the 44th president of the United States? They'll also tell us what major trends and signs we should be looking for in the months to come before the first ballots and caucus preferences are cast in Iowa, New Hampshire and other states.

Get a ringside seat! Tickets are going fast!

•  My vote

  is for MCJOAN!

  by KnowVox on Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 06:04:23 PM PDT

•  I want to buy a ticket right this second, but

  I can't find where to purchase them on the website.

  by Scout Finch on Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 07:24:46 PM PDT

  •  From KU's Website:

    http://apps.ku.edu/...

    Lecture: "Blog to the Chief: The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Election" - Presidential Lectures Series "The 2008 Campaign"
    Presidential Lecture Series: "2008 Campaign" - with five prominent political bloggers

    Jerome Armstrong www.mydd.com Patrick Hynes www.anklebitingpundits.com Scott W. Johnson http://www.powerlineblog.com/ Joan McCarter (mcjoan) http://www.dailykos.com David D. Perlmutter, Ph.D www.policybyblog.squarespace.com Erick-Woods Erickson www.redstate.com Check out the Dole Institute website for other details

    Date: February 13, 2007
    Time: 07:30PM - 09:00PM
    Location: Dole Institute of Politics
    Department: Dole Institute of Politics
    Contact: 785.864-4900, [e-mail]
    http://www.doleinstitute.org
    Ticket Cost: Free

    Presidential Lecture Series: "2008 Campaign" Remaining Events: Wednesday, Feb. 21"America's Foremost Political Prognosticator" with Charlie Cook, publisher of The Cook Political Report Wednesday, Feb. 28"Winning the Nomination" with David Yepsen,leading authority on the Iowa caucuses and reporter on state and national politics for the Des Moines Register; Tom Rath, national Republican political strategist; and Jonathan Epstein, national Democratic political strategist. All of the programs will be held 7:30-9 p.m. at the Dole Institute and are free & open to the public

    I'm wondering if you still need a ticket, even if it's "free."  Sometimes they do that with those events.  I'm going to be in Lawrence tomorrow, so I'll stop in and pick up a ticket.  Yahoo!

    by Scout Finch on Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 07:35:04 PM PDT

    •  Good luck!

      The tickets are indeed FREE.

      by KnowVox on Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 07:13:43 PM PDT