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May 1, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Panel
Category: 
Political Blogging
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No

By the time the conference rolls around the primaries will be over, and people will be working on GOTV for the final recall election.  This election will have far-reaching influence on the future of the state - we will have a panel of people to discuss the importance of the recall, and what the long-lasting effects are likely to be.

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
It's the culmination of the past year's work in Wisconsin - we should talk about it.
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The GOP War on Women

April 11, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Panel
Category: 
Political Blogging
Will You Lead This Session?: 
No

Why does the GOP continually wage war on women when the votes of women may well determine the outcome of the 2012 election cycle?  Why does this matter?  What can you do about it?

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
It's one of the most important issues facing us in Wisconsin this year, as the legislature continually passed anti-women legislation in the state.
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Breakfast, registration, and meet-up

May 6, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Group Discussion
Category: 
Other

Conference registration, light continental breakfast, and an opportunity to meet the other people at the conference. 

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 09:00 - 09:30
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Wisconsin Blogger's Panel

March 23, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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My Name: 
Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Panel
Category: 
Political Blogging
Will You Lead This Session?: 
Yes

A discussion between different estabilshed Wisconsin political bloggers.  Topics will include

  • How I got started in blogging
  • What my blog does, and what is my niche in the cheddarsphere
  • Advice for people starting
  • What my blog's response was to the turmoil of 2011
  • Discussion of where things are going with blogging in Wisconsin, and how we can influence the direction
How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
This was a successful session at the last Netrootswis, and I think we have a LOT more to talk about this time around.
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 09:30 - 10:30
Session Leader: 
Steve Hanson
Emily Mills
Sara Schulz (tentative)
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Money and Democracy

May 5, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Lecture
Category: 
Other
Will You Lead This Session?: 
No

Mike McCabe of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign will lead a session on the influence of money on politics in Wisconsin and Nationally.

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 09:30 - 10:30
Session Leader: 
Mike McCabe
Biography: 

Mike McCabe is executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks the money in state politics, fights corruption and works for clean, open and honest government. Mike joined the Democracy Campaign's staff in 1999 and became the group's director in 2000. He previously worked for six years as the Madison Metropolitan School District's communications director and legislative liaison. Mike also formerly worked as a newspaper reporter and state legislative aide. He grew up on his family's dairy farm in central Wisconsin and went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in journalism and political science, and later served in the Peace Corps in the West African country of Mali.

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Technology Potpourri

April 11, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Training
Category: 
Technology
Will You Lead This Session?: 
Yes

A quick roundup of technology and new tools that you can use to make your blog, web site, or other Internet presence better.  This will probably include:

 

Mobile technology

Better use of video

Spreecast and other video discussion tools

I'd like this to be a really open discussion, so bring along your favorite tools you've been using and talk about them.

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
Technology is always a hurdle for people - let's see if we can work on ways to lower the bar.
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 09:30 - 10:30
Session Leader: 
Steve Hanson
Biography: 

Steve Hanson is the founder and editor of Uppity Wisconsin, the progressive Wisconsin political blog.  He also is the owner and lead developer for Cruiskeen Consulting LLC, a web site hosting and development company in Downsville Wisconsin.  He has also served as the lead organizer for Netroots Wisconsin since its inception.

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J-School for Bloggers: Building a better blogosphere

April 11, 2012 by Anonymous

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Emily Mills
Session Type: 
Training
Category: 
Journalism
Will You Lead This Session?: 
Yes

The Cheddarsphere is strong! Blogs were on the front lines of the Wisconsin Uprising, oftentimes breaking stories and staying way ahead of the state and national media narratives - providing crucial, on-the-ground perspectives and news to a public hungry for real information. Blogs also provide crucial information about often ignored local issues and give voice to people and communities that might not otherwise get heard.

Still, it can be difficult to get your writing read by a wider audience, picked up by larger blogs/media outlets, and even taken seriously by more old-school, entrenched organizations. While some groups have started recognizing the importance of giving bloggers press credentials for big events, it's still sometimes difficult to get your foot in the door.

This training session will look to provide basic journalistic tools to bloggers to help bolster their already great work by:

  • Teaching standard AP style, and why it's important to use it/stick with it
  • Developing tools for representing yourself/your blog in a more professional light, forcing organizations to take you seriously as a media outlet
  • Research and fact-checking tools and skills
  • Basic article/post construction techniques to help you get your point across in a more clear, concise, readable manner
  • PR/Outreach techniques

This session will be very interactive, and can adapt to fit the individual needs of its attendees.

 

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
This training will contribute to building stronger blogs and bloggers, as well as community activists, by helping provide the tools to write stronger, more well-researched, clearly written pieces - and how to reach out to and build a bigger audience for those blogs and the community-based stories they tell.
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 10:30 - 12:00
Session Leader: 
Emily Mills
Biography: 

Emily Mills is Editor and a contributing writer for dane101. She is also a freelance writer, photographer, actor, and musician (drummer and singer in local band Little Red Wolf). Originally from several states up and down the Midwest Emily has called Madison home since 2000.

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Sand Mining in Northwest Wisconsin - Education

March 31, 2012 by Anonymous

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Panel
Category: 
Other
Will You Lead This Session?: 
No

We are working on a session about sand mining in Wisconsin.  Wisconsin is ground zero for frac sand mining in the United States, and sand mine proposals are cropping up all over the western part of the state. This morning session will be an educational session about sand mining and the issues involved.  There will also be an afternoon session about organizing and activism.

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
Sand mining is a very contentious issue in the state at the moment, and this will be an effective way to organize and to get people introduced as a sand mining working committee.
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 10:30 - 12:00
Session Leader: 
Jerry Lausted
James Drost
Others as needed --
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We Are Wisconsin - The Film

May 16, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Film and Discussion
Category: 
Other

We Are WisconsinThis will be a presentation of We Are Wisconsin.  It is a film about the protests and protesters in Madison last year.  This will be one of the earliest showings of the film in final form. Note - if you wish to only attend the two films at the conference, we will be making a special arrangement for 1/2 day passes for the afternoon of the conference.  These passes will not include lunch or breakfast..Seating will be very limited.

We Are Wisconsin is currently being shown on the film festival circuit, and has recently received a standing ovation at the HotDocs film festival in Toronto.  Our thanks to the director and producer of this film for allowing us an opportunity to see this film before it becomes available in theaters.

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 10:30 - 12:00
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Netroots Wisconsin - Where are we going?

April 17, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Informal Lunch Session
Category: 
Other
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Yes

Netroots Wisconsin has largely been my own project.  I'd like to change that.  This will be a discussion over the lunch hour about what we should do about Netroots Wisconsin in the future.  Bigger sponsors?  Ongoing discussions on-line?  Working groups on different topics? Informal get-togethers?  Or should we just go away and let corporate interests take over the state?

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
We need to make some decisions about whether this working group will continue, and if so, in what form?
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 12:00 - 13:00
Session Leader: 
Steve Hanson
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Sand Mining Lunch Discussion

April 27, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Informal Lunch Session
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Other
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No

Informal lunch discussion on sand-mining issues --- get the ideas percolating!

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 12:00 - 13:00
Session Leader: 
Pilar Gerasimo
Kellie Jones
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Koch Brothers Exposed!

April 11, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Film and Discussion
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Other
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No

Koch Brothers Exposed!A showing of the new documentary Koch Brothers Exposed, followed by a discussion of the influence of outside money on our political process. A group discussion and distribution of action materials will follow.

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
It's an important discussion in an election cycle where outside money is pouring into the state.
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Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 13:00 - 15:00
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Organizing for Sand Mine Regulation

May 6, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Organizing Meeting
Category: 
Mining
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No

 

“Resisting the Expansion of Frac Sand Mining

A Regional Conversation”

 

Participate in a Cross-County

Collaboration and Networking Opportunity

 

 

Join other organizers and activists around the REGION to:

 

  • Develop regional damage control strategies

  • Minimize the impact of the “Divide and Conquer” approach used by sand mine companies

  • Compare notes on effective approaches to educating and organizing communities

  • Establish ongoing regional networking and collaboration structures

 

The session will be facilitated by ToP (Technology of Participation) certified facilitators designed to engage a group in participatory planning and decision making.

 

Other potential conversation topics:

  • What are emerging trends in Sand Mining?

  • What tools do we have working for us?

  • What factors are working against us?

  • What resources do we need to stay in the game/be effective in staying on top of or ahead of the Sand Mine Companies?

 

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 13:00 - Wed, 2012-06-20 15:00
Session Leader: 
Kellie Jones
Eva Jensen
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We are Wisconsin

April 24, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Film and Discussion
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Other

We Are WisconsinThis will be a presentation of We Are Wisconsin.  It is a film about the protests and protesters in Madison last year.  This will be one of the earliest showings of the film in final form. Note - if you wish to only attend the two films at the conference, we will be making a special arrangement for 1/2 day passes for the afternoon of the conference.  These passes will not include lunch or breakfast..Seating will be very limited.

We Are Wisconsin is currently being shown on the film festival circuit, and has recently received a standing ovation at the HotDocs film festival in Toronto.  Our thanks to the director and producer of this film for allowing us an opportunity to see this film before it becomes available in theaters.

 

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
Education on the protests, and the real costs to the state of Walker's "reforms".
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 15:00 - 17:00
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The Wisconsin War on the Environment

April 17, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Organizing Meeting
Category: 
Other
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No

A general discussion or panel on the legislation that has been passed in the last 2 years and the potential effects on Wisconsin's environment.

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 15:00 - 16:00
Session Leader: 
Tom Stolp
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Progressive Potpourri and Closing

May 1, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
Session Type: 
Group Discussion
Category: 
Other
Will You Lead This Session?: 
Yes

A quick procession of people coming up to talk about what they're doing.  A maximum of 5 minutes per person. Discuss what you or your organization is doing, make a pitch for help, ideas, money - you name it. The concept here is to get out as many ideas as possible in a very short period of time, and to give people a chance to network with others.  This will happen near the end of the session, and people are very much welcome to retire to the bar in the same building to continue their "work". 

We will also have a short closing and evaluation period.

How will this help build Wisconsin Netroots?: 
Informal and fast networking - think of it as progressive speed dating, but where you're trying to date the entire group.
Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 17:00 - 18:00
Session Leader: 
Steve Hanson
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After Hours

May 6, 2012 by Steve Hanson

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Steve Hanson
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Group Discussion
Category: 
Other
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No

How convenient --- the conference is in the same building as a bar and restaurant.  If you have the time, retire to the bar with your fellow Netsrooters, have a drink, and if you feel like it, have dinner.  This is not a formal part of the conference, but a chance to unwind and talk to the people you met during the day.

Time Scheduled: 
Sun, 2012-05-20 18:00 - 19:00
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