Our Agenda for 2006 is below.
Questions? Email info AT webofchange DOT com.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
- 5:00 pm — Welcome Reception
- 6:30 pm — Dinner
- 7:30 pm — Welcome & Hollyhock Orientation
- 8:00 pm — Procession to Olatunji Hall
- 8:20 pm — Introductions and Intentions
- Conference Opening with Madeline Stanionis
Thursday, September 21, 2006
- 7:00 - 8:30 am — Yoga & Meditation (optional)
- 8:30 – 9:30 am — Breakfast
- 9:45 – 10:45 am — Keynote I:
Adrienne Maree Brown; Executive Director, Ruckus Society - 10:45 – 11:15 am — Break
- 11:15 am – 12:30 pm — Workshop Sessions I:
- Putting Online Technology to Work for Social Change
- Integrating Toolsets: Software that plays nice
- Turning your Cause into Compelling Content/Story
- 12:30 – 2:00 pm — Lunch
- 2:15 – 3:00 pm — Gathering Topics for Open Sessions
- 3:15 - 4:30 pm — Workshop Sessions II:
- Campaign Strategy: Understanding and Leveraging
- Mapping your Work: Using Process Mapping to Increase Effectiveness
- Person-to-Person: Exploring social networks and user-generated content
- 4:30 – 5:00 pm — Break
- 5:00 - 6:15 pm — Workshop Sessions III:
- Web 2.0: New Technologies beget New Campaign Strategies
- Online memes: Leveraging the progressive blogosphere
- Building a progressive media alliance: publishers working together for change
- 6:30 – 8:00 pm — Dinner
- 8:00 – 9:30 pm — SpeedGeek
An innovative, dynamic, and fun way to present your most important projects to small groups, and learn about other’s work - 10:00 pm — After Hours Lounge Party
Friday, September 22, 2006
- 7:00 – 8:30 am — Yoga & Meditation (optional)
- 8:30 – 9:30 am — Breakfast
- 9:45 – 10:45 am — Keynote II:
Martin Gill; Comic Relief, Make Poverty History, Live 8 - 10:45 – 11:15 Break
- 11:15am – 12:30 pm — Three Open Sessions
(topics to be determined by conference participants) - 12:30 – 2:00 pm — Lunch
- Free Afternoon!
- 1:30 – 6:30 pm — Sailboat Cruise with Misty Island Adventures
(sign up in bookstore, 25% of fees sponsored) - 1:30 - 5:30 pm — Kayaking
(sign up in bookstore, 25% of fees sponsored) - 2:00 – 4:00 pm — Linnaea Farm Tour
- 1:30– 4:30 pm — Nature Hike with Hollyhock Naturalist Bill Ophoff
- 5:00 – 6:30 pm — Yoga for Geeks (no experience necessary!)
- 6:30 – 8:00 pm — Dinner
- 8:15 – 9:45 pm — Collective Communication History
Lead by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Movement Strategy Center - 10:00 pm — Mellow Lodge Jazz Evening
Saturday, September 23, 2006
- 7:00 am — Yoga & Meditation (optional)
- 8:30 – 9:30 am — Breakfast
- 9:45 – 10:45 am — Developing your Personal Theory of Change
Lead by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Movement Strategy Center - 10:45 – 11:15 am — Break
- 11:15 – 12:30 pm — Developing your Personal Theory of Change cont.
- 12:30 – 2:00 pm — Lunch
- 2:15 – 3:45 pm:
- The End of Burnout
Lead by Adrienne Maree Brown - Open Session
(topic to be determined by conference participants) - Open Session
(topic to be determined by conference participants)
- The End of Burnout
- 3:45 – 4:15 Break
- 4:15 – 6:00 pm — Peer to Peer Breakouts / Workshopping Your Issue
An opportunity to tap the collective wisdom of the conference participants. - 6:00 – 6:30 pm — Oyster Barbeque
- 6:30 – 8:00 pm — Dinner
- 9:00 pm – Late — Funk Band Party!!!
Sunday, September 24, 2006
- 7:00 am — Yoga & Meditation (optional)
- 8:30 – 10:00 am — (Late) Breakfast
- 10:15 am – 11:45 pm — Integrating our Learning, Revisiting our Intentions, Closing Circle
- 12:30 pm — Lunch and Departure
