Micah Sifry (one of our panelists) just gave me the heads up on this event his organization is putting on called Personal Democracy Forum 2006 in New York on Monday May 15 - a few days before our event. The current list of speakers looks fantastic, with some of the most prominent thought leaders from the world of business, politics and technology - in addition to some of the more well known bloggers such as Markos Moulitsas, Jason Calcanis and David Sifry. It should be quite the conversation - so if you have any hope of remaining relevant as the nature of communications technology evolves in the political arena, you should plan on heading to NYC that day.

According to their Web site, the focus for the day will be on:

• The maturing of blogs as powerbrokers and media-makers.
• Promising new experiments in tuning social networking tools for political communities.
• New tools for political communication, including podcasting, videoblogging, mobile phones and word-of-mouth.
• Why increasing traffic to your own website is not enough; taking advantage of the Internet as a platform.

Registration costs just $295, so go ahead and check out the program topics and register today. If I was not supposed to be in Miami that day for my grandfather’s belated 90th birthday dinner the weekend before, I would definitely be seeing you there - in fact, I still might see you there if I can rework the travel schedule.

Categories: Democracy, Events