How Technology has changed politics in four years

Edward Vielmetti

7:00pm
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
411 West Hall (Ehrlicher Room) directions...

Material from this meeting:
- the wiki: http://www.socialtext.net/mochi
- notes taken during the talk: Word .doc file
- Ed's comments on the talk: http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2004/05/how_technology_.html

Ed will take a look at how technlogical change in the past four years in fundraising, social networking, media production and organizing have made an impact in this year's Presidential race, and will share insights into where the next four years of technology might take us.

About the Speaker

Edward Vielmetti is Vice President of Services at Socialtext, Inc., a Palo Alto, CA based company that provides electronic workspaces for collaboration based on weblogs and wikis.

Prior to joining Socialtext, Ed has worked at a number of organizations advancing the state of the art of the Internet, including pioneering efforts in network security, electronic payments, internet services and securities trading. He is used to being about four years ahead of what is mainstream for technology.