New York

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1 2008 Overview
2 Past Events

[edit] 2008 Overview

New York City, the temporary epicenter of OneWebDay, will be host to a whole menu of OneWebDay events. You can read about each event in detail below. Here's a schedule summary:

Saturday 9/20
- 2-4pm - Educational Workshops on Web Technology
- 7-9pm - Tech Demos - Tools for Online Participation in Democracy
- 9-midnight - OneWebday Party

Monday 9/22
- 11:00am - Seniors Rally at City Hall for Digital Inclusion
- 11:45am-2pm - Main Event in Washington Square Park

[edit] Main Event

Where: Washington Square Park, Teen Plaza (SE part of the park)

When: Monday, 9/22/2008, 11:45am to 2pm

Who: Moderator Sree Sreenivasan (Columbia Journalism & WNBC-TV), plus Tim Westergren (Pandora), Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Stanford), Craig Newmark (craigslist), Dharma Dailey (Ethos Group), City Councilwoman Hon. Gale A. Brewer, John Perry Barlow, Andrew Baron (Rocketboom), SJ Klein (OLPC), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), others.

What: FREE event

Who should attend: Anyone who likes the internet and its transformative effect on human lives

Purpose of this event: To initiate an environmental movement for the internet. The theme this year: online participation in democracy. The internet is under pressure around the world - inadequate connectivity, censorship, huge digital divides threaten its future. This rally is designed to raise awareness of these issues and to help us focus on how the internet has changed democratic involvement in America.

Needed: Publicity, cash contributions to cover expenses (there's a "donate" link on the OneWebDay home page), and attendance - this will be a great event.

[edit] Educational Workshops

We've reserved several rooms at NYU's Courant Institute (251 Mercer, corner West 4th) in which to hold a series of educational workshops.

Times	Room 101: Building Common Resources	Room 1314: Power to the User	Room 102: Web Strategies for Nonprofits
OWD Workshop Schedule 2008
	webcast	webcast	webcast
2:00 - 2:30	How Wikipedia Works Michael Verrilli will cover the basics of how and why Wikipedia is so successful, and how you can edit an article.	TheLampNYC.org: Media Literacy -- Breaking Ads with Digital Media We're way past the age of only receiving one-way, top-down, corporate media messages. Today digital media and the Internet allow us talk back, interrogate, and re-create corporate-produced persuasive messages. In this session you'll see commercials broken down to their persuasive essence, then re-created to reveal the truths left out. How are digital media and the web used to do it? Why would we want to do it? Is it legal? Find out here.	An Introduction to the Grassroots.org Web Builder Representatives from Grassroots.org will show you how to build an effective web presence for your nonprofit in a single afternoon.
2:40 - 3:10	The Open Video Project The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Dean Jansen will walk you through the theory and practice behind this user-powered project.	Citizen Journalism Mike Meyers of NowPublic.com will teach you how to get started as a citizen journalist.	SEO and Google Grants Kevin Lee will cover how and why search engine marketing is a critical tool for non-profits including some tips for both organic SEO best practices and how to maximize the return from your Google grant, as well as how to apply for a Google grant if you don’t have one.
3:20 - 3:50	Creative Commons Licenses Fred Benenson will walk you through the Creative Commons licensing scheme and teach you how to share your work and protect it at the same time.		Understanding CRM for nonprofits and activists Develop an understanding of how/why online databases and organizing tools are game changers when it comes to lobbying, fundraising and communications. Presented by Charles Lenchner of Democracy in Action.

[edit] Tech Demos

Grassroots Web and OneWebDay have teamed up to provide our own version of the New York Tech Meetup. We'll be hosting 6 demos, all in tune with this year's theme of online participation in democracy. Here they are:

Date and Time: The demos will be held in Room 101 at NYU's Courant Institute, 251 Mercer St. at the corner of West 4th St. The event will run from 7-9pm

RSVP: Please RSVP at http://web.meetup.com/27/calendar/8642107/

Webcast: The demos will also be webcast at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/OWD

[edit] Party

Let down your firewalls and get end-to-end on the dance floor; OWD NYC's annual bash returns bigger and better than ever. We've reserved the back room at Jimmy's No. 43, which holds about 80. We'll be filling that up and spilling into the front room as well, so arrive early to make sure you can get in. We'll be eating, drinking, and getting psyched up for the greatest OneWebDay yet.

Where: Jimmy's No. 43, 43 East 7th Street, near Second Avenue

When: 9pm to midnight, Saturday, Sept. 20

[edit] Seniors Rally at City Hall for Digital Inclusion

Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) is organizing seniors from across the city to come to City Hall and call on the city to address the digital divide and help seniors have access to the Internet and technology. The meeting will be at 10am on One Web Day, Sept. 22. Speakers include City Councilmembers Brewer, Arroyo, De Blasio, and Palma, as well as supermodel and actress Daniella Van Graas. Seniors and advocate will also speak out on the importance of older adults going online.

Call OATS at 718 360 1707 for more information.