- Good morning from Netoots Nation. More tweeting all day long. Mostly keeping it off Facebook – follow me or hashtag #nn11 on Twitter. #fb#
- Ill also still use hashtag #nn11lgbt for LGBT relevant stuff. #fb#
8:00-8:50 AM. Morning News Dump with Lizz Winstead and Friends
“Friends” included Alaska’s Shannyn Moore and Pam Spaulding of the LGBT blog Pam’s House Blend. I missed some of this because of a registration issue.
- Morning newsdump about to start. #nn11#
- Missed a buncha morning news dump due to a registration issue – but hearing now abt a new progressive voices app. #nn11#
- @Pam_Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend talking about fake lesbian bloggers. She’s a real lesbian (so’m I). #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
That was a reference to the two very recent cases of supposedly lesbian bloggers who were exposed to be heterosexual males.
- @shannynmoore on Sarah Palin & what Alaska exports that’s much better than crazy, like wild salmon. #nn11#
- @shannynmoore now talking abt mining issues in AK – Pebble Mine – mining soon to rival oil as source of AK political corruption. #nn11#
- Mining in AK is also a national issue – a food security issue. #nn11#
- RT @Pam_Spaulding: My pithy quote: “We just lost two lesbian voices in the #lgbt movement.” #nn11 // funniest quote of morning. #nn11lgbt#
9:00-10:15 AM. Life Since Vegas: How the Netroots Forced Action on DADT and DREAM
- RT @FreedomToServe: @AMERICAblogGay ‘s Joe Sudbay opens discussing links to opposition forces who fought DREAM act and #DADT #nn11 #nn11lgbt#
- should not have had that donut. Blood sugar humming. #thingsnottodo #nn11 #
- Trevor Thomas on last year situation re: repeal of DADT – & how online social media & bloggers crucial to repeal effort. #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
- News from outside #nn11 : Weiner resigning. h:t @Gryphen2009http://t.co/I7L28VA#
- Felipe Matos abt how faith groups support immigrant rights, but don’t always support LGBT immigrants. #nn11lgbt #nn11 #dream#
- “Political homophobia”: when politician is not per se homophobic, but fears political backlash for supporting LGBT rights. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
- stepping out of session hoing for final resolution of registration mixup… #NN11#
10:30-11:45 AM. Managing a State Community Blog
- Now at session on managing a state-level community blog. This is goal for @bentalaska : getting more ongoing bloggers & voices. #fb #nn11 #
- How can state blogs connect w/ other blogs? #nn11#
- Biggest need for @bentalaska : expanding front page crew: more consistent & committed blog writer so it’s not just on 1 or 2 people #nn11#
- RT @deciminyan: #NN11 state-wide blog advice – get subject matter experts to write for your blog (eg transpo or other niche interests) #
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT >> RT @jenancona: RT @soiledhands: Messages are not nuanced. Policies are. #nnecon #nn11 #
- @bentalaska is both an events & news blog as well as re: LGBT AK & natl politics. We need people in all areas. #nn11#
- getting orgs & politicians to pass on press releases. We already do to some extent on @bentalaska #nn11#
- Stats of who our readers are on front page? #nn11#
- traffic management: when do we get lots of traffic, when not? Analytics #nn11#
- Turns out in this state blogs session I’m sitting right next to David Bremer of AK Democratic Party. Go AK! #NN11 #fb #
- Now told we shd tweet this session w/ hashtag #local – all my tweets in last half hour gave been abt this session. #nn11#
- driving traffic back to site by commenting on other state blogs & related issue blogs. #local #nn11 #
- Discussing Soapblox & WordPress MU (multiuser). @bentalaska now on WordPress. Dunno we need more, but can change template. #local #nn11 #
- Chris Dykstra of Warecorp talking abt Soapblox & other platforms. They have a booth. Also may be informal session later: watch #local #nn11 #
- Biggest challenge of #nn11 : keeping all your devices charged. #
- Talking at #local session abt “one state blog” w/ nodes for diff regions/cities. Exactly: @bentalaska needs ANC, FBX, JNO etc. #nn11 #fb #
- leftyblogs.com a good place to link state blogs so progressives can find state blogs when big stories break. #local #nn11#
- Get all blog staff to tweet & FB posts to help bring traffic. I know some @bentalaska folks have no Twitter. #local #nn11 #
- I knew lots of this stuff, but presented in a cohesive way helps systematize it in my mind. Lots to do when I get back to AK #local #nn11#
- imp for state blogs to do partisan analysis. In @bentalaska‘s case, LGBT analysis (as Dems often fail us as much as Repubs) #local #NN11 #
- Thanks to the folks who did the state #local session – very helpful. #nn11#
“Lunchtime” — mostly spent in a hallway plugged in and dealing with connectivity problems
- Finally got my #NN11 badge. I am now a Real Person ™. #nn11lgbt #fb #
- It’s lunchtime! Time to feed some current to my iPod & laptop. #NN11#
- Shoutout to all the other Alaska peeps at Netroots Nation!! #NN11 #fb #
- Spotty Internet at #NN11 is Driving. Me. Crazy. Ahhhhhhhhhh! #
- Uploading pics from the morning at #nn11 to my Flickr photostream. When it’s working, lots faster Internet here than at Hilton. #
- Back at home: @Ch2KTUU (among others) reports 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered 50 miles SW of Anchorage at 11:06 AM. Tsunami not expected. #
- I am now officially bored w/ sitting on my butt in hallway recharging & computer maintenance. Time for exhibit hall. #nn11#
- goin to session on “when the prez is not that into you” mainly to hear Dan Choi, but wish session on faith wasn’t at same time… #nn11#
- … as one of my big issues is how LGBT & progressives tens to cede religion to narrow spectrum rightwingers. #nn11#
- Ina Jaffe of NPR here as media for this session. Panel abt to start. #nn11lgbt #nn11#
- This is the “the president isn’t our boyfriend anymore” session. #nn11lgbt #NN11 #
- People who stand up to Prez more likely to get what they want. Problem: Dems don’t tend to stan up to him. #nn11#
- Moved over to Moving Forward w/ Faith session – practically speaking, faith issues imp to what LGBTs in AK face. #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
- Internet connectivity at #nn11 keeps dropping out again. #
- Beth Dahlman of Faithfulamerica.org talking abt advocacy of Catholic sisters in health care debate. #NN11#
- “Feeding the Becklash” against extremism of Glenn Beck by faith orgs. #NN11#
- Conservatives claiming “morals” & “values” as reasons to hurt poor. Eg Paul Ryan inspires by Ayn Rand refused Bible presented to him #nn11#
- DailyKos guy pointing out that Republican Party a la Paul Ryan being taken over by anti-Christian Objectivist movement. #NN11#
- “There is no one more antiChrist than Ayn Rand.” — Eric Sapp #NN11#
- What are progressive Christian groups like Sojourners doing about Islamophobia? Need much more education abt Islam. #NN11#
- Many LGBT people are Muslim & many LGBT faith people part of effort to fight Islamophobia & educate abt Islam. #NN11#
- RT @elise_foley: Dan Choi just ripped up Organizing For America paper and threw it in the face of an Obama organizer. Intense shiz at #nn11#
- Sounds like heavy stuff happening back at that “When the Prez is not that into you” session I left. I’m betting on news headlines… #nn11#
- … but still glad I came over here, practically. Hope the live feed over there becomes perm video though. #nn11#
- Attempts again to explain why Sojourners refused the Believe Out Loud ad. It rots, but still gotta work w/ Sojourners. #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
- Agree! RT @MikeElk: Nichols: I dont care abt presidential politics…we need local politics covered by alternative media #nn11#
- Got my #NN11 swag bag, now at session on “How to be the media.” #
- Eli Pariser: now that we’ve written this, how do we get it out for as many as possible to see it? #NN11#
- Davey D: telling our own stories. Corporate media won’t do it. #NN11#
- Davey D: are we following the very media we’re trying to break free of? #NN11#
- Eli Pariser: b/c very little media before Internet, we might gave artificially high regard for preInternet journalism… #NN11#
- … Davey D: mainstream media wasn’t really that good to begin with. #NN11#
- I.e., citizen journalism often very much much much better than what corporate & mainstream media does. #NN11#
- Are we going to fall into same trap if just telling same story over & over that MSM does? #NN11#
- @cathysherwin @oneunionmom That echoes what’s being said in How to be the media panel. We have to tell our own stories, MSM won’t. #nn11in reply to cathysherwin#
- Davey D: interviews on local
Media that gives lots of time & context to story v 2 minutes on Fox that disses you…. #NN11# - Support media that tells your stories accurately and well. To he’ll with those that give your story short shrift & treat you badly. #NN11#
- Jason Barnett: we’re in trouble now – Comcast wants to own the Internet. Need for net neutrality. #NN11#
- RT @RyanNewYork: American Constitution was attempt to break cycle of rise and fall of empires. Did they fail? #NN11 / It was a stopgap #
- RT @RDispatches: Archbishop’s Theology Wearing No Clothes: Panic @ possibility of same-sex marriage passing in NY drive http://bit.ly/jWTabf#
- Someone @ Huffpo blogging some shit abt progressives divorcing Obama b/c of incident at #nn11 w/ Dan Choi. It’s stupid. Simplistic. Shit. #
- Listening to Russ Feingold abt corporate power, “Citizena United” & Wall Street/Republican corruption @Netroots_Nation #nn11#
- RT @ZackFord: “Speech doesn’t corrupt; money corrupts. And money isn’t speech.” -Russ Feingold #nn11 // Citizens United = SCOTUS fail #
- At @bentalaska: Netroots Nation is not just one nation http://goo.gl/fb/0wXQ8 #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
