IPDI (and the Graduate School of Political Management) are thrilled to partner with the OUTBURST! Forum this election season. The kickoff event will be held in Denver on Sunday, August 24th (we’ll post about future events before they occur).

Details:

FTW or FTL?
The best of the best (and worst of the worst) online tactics of the Democratic Presidential Candidates — and how you can use them to be politically active

Hosted by the OUTBURST! Forum

Sunday, August 24
Panel - 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Reception - 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Sturm Hall, University of Denver, 2000 E Asbury Avenue, Denver, CO 80210
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Which Democratic candidates (and their supporters) made the most of multimedia and social tools during the election season?

What were your favorite political web videos and how successful were they at moving poll numbers and donations?

Join the GSPM and IPDI for an interactive, light-hearted OUTBURST! Forum event that allows the audience to vote on their favorite web tactics – and allows the pundits to discuss how useful those web tactics actually were at achieving campaign goals.

The panel will be part of the OUTBURST! Forum, a multi-city interactive lecture series and forum that will address some of the most pressing political and public policy topics and issues impacting youth voters (ages 18-24); its primary demographic. For more information and to look at additional OUTBURST! Forum events, visit www.outbursttour.com.

Meet the panelists:
Julie Barko Germany (moderator) serves as the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at and the interim director of marketing for the Graduate School of Political Management. She is an alumna of the GSPM.

Lee Brenner is Executive Producer of Political Programming and Director of IMPACT (Public Affairs) at MySpace.

Charles Ellison serves as Senior Advisor to the Center for African American Policy at the University of Denver (CAAP-DU) and is a CAAP Senior Fellow in Public Policy and Chief Editor of the center’s popular flagship website Blackpolicy.org.

Ian Koski joined Blue State Digital in February 2008 after three years as the founder and creative director of On Deck Communication Studio, where he crafted communications strategy and developed web sites for a variety of Democratic campaigns and causes. He is an alumnus of the GSPM.

Mike Disharoon is a consultant with Blackrock Associates, a leader in online marketing for progressive candidate and issue campaigns. He is an alumnus of the GSPM.