As part of Joe Trippi's visit to Australia thanks to Microsoft Australia, he will be speaking at QUT on Thursday 5 March:
Presents
Mr Joe Trippi
Trippi & Associates (USA)
Online campaigning in the US Presidential election
Thursday 5 March 2009
The Gibson Room
Level 10, Z Block
QUT Gardens Point Campus
5.30 pm Refreshments
6.00 pm Lecture commences
7.00 pm Lecture concludes
The Speaker
Joe Trippi is the man who introduced the internet into US presidential campaigning and is widely-credited with having ‘re-invented campaigning’.
Much of the success of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been attributed to the innovative use of the internet to rally grassroots support.
As National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign in 2004, Joe pioneered the use of online technology to organise what became the largest grassroots movement in presidential politics.
As a campaign manager, Joe has run presidential, senate, gubernatorial and mayoral campaigns in the US. His innovations have brought fundamental change to the electoral system and have become the model for smart campaigning.
Joe Trippi has been profiled in GQ, Wired, Fast Company, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine. He is a political analyst for the 24-hour US cable news channel MSNBC and a former Harvard University fellow. He currently heads the Washington, DC political consultancy, Trippi & Associates.
Joe is the author of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything,” the story of how his revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics, and indeed many aspects of American life, forever.
Joe Trippi’s visit is supported by Microsoft Australia.
Registration: Register by 27 February 2009 at qutlawpubliclectures@qut.edu.au
Registered attendees may claim 1 CPD point for the Queensland Bar Association and Queensland Law Society.
Great lecture! I made a last minute decision to attend as I had other plans and it was worth it.
Posted by: Hannah Suarez | Thursday, 05 March 2009 at 10:46 PM