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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Remote participants can
connect individually or join an IGF hub, if one will be
organized in your home city. The complete list of IGF hubs is
available here: <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation"
target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It will be possible to
follow the videocast/audiocast of all IGF sessions and to send
questions to the panelists. The official platform used for
remote participation will be Webex. <b>The links to join each
session (or each “webex room”) will be available in IGF
website prior to the meeting.</b></span></p>
<font face="Verdana"><br>
I attended IGF 2009 (Sharm El Sheikh) from Maracay, Venezuela (and
even spoke at a Main Session as well as a workshop). Remote
participation ROCKS!!! Congrats to the Remote Participation
working group, IGF Secretariat, and thanks to Diplo for backup and
support.<br>
<br>
Some things I learned:<br>
</font>
<ul>
<li><font>It helped me to switch completely to IGF-time, eating,
sleeping, attending meetings. I was 'at the IGF', and I think
I got more out of it than most in-person attendees.</font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font>Take advantage of your remote 'omnipresence': you can
monitor several workshops to see what is going on in the 'big
picture' or switch to another workshop if one is not what you
were looking for.</font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Verdana"> If you make a remote presentation,
prepare and send a video back-up ahead of time to make sure
you will show at your best and your ideas will get through.</font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font>Promote your position/issues, your profile and your
energy</font><font face="Verdana">: If you are a multi-tasker,
Tweet, Blog and share. This helps those who cannot attend, are
attending remotely, or are on site, and cannot see everything
you can. Your position counts-disseminate it!<br>
</font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Verdana"> Email Ginger (me) at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:VirginiaP@diplomacy.edu">VirginiaP -at-
diplomacy.edu</a>, and give me your Skype ID so you can join
the IGF 2010 remote conversation--find out what others are
doing.</font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Verdana">There are some amazing videos from last
year's hubs--If you are part of a hub 2010, show the world
your accomplishment. Take a video and send me a link. I will
be glad to help post/promote your video and your
group/issues/achievements.</font></li>
</ul>
<span lang="EN-US"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Remote participants can
connect individually or join an IGF hub, if one will be
organized in your home city. The complete list of IGF hubs is
available here: <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation"
target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It will be possible to
follow the videocast/audiocast of all IGF sessions and to send
questions to the panelists. The official platform used for
remote participation will be Webex. <b>The links to join each
session (or each “webex room”) will be available in IGF
website prior to the meeting.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are also encouraging
video questions from remote participants. If you are interested
to make a question, the best option would be to let us know in
advance, so we can test your connection/bandwidth capacity prior
to the session.</span></p>
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<br>
Tips from Tim Davies, Seiiti and others:<br>
<br>
<div><b>Post to the Blog at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org">www.diplointernetgovernance.org</a></b><br>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Social Reporting at the Internet
Governance Forum<br>
</b></span>The Internet Governance Forum isnʼt just taking
place inside the conference centre: itʼs also taking place
across the world and across the Internet through remote
participation and through informal social media networks. During
the 2009 IGF in Sharm El Sheikh over 5000 Twitter messages were
sent, 100s of blog posts were written, and many video clips were
recorded and published online. </p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This year DiploFoundation are
exploring the use of ‘Social Reporting’ as a way to widen
participation in IGF, and we’re keen to have your involvement
too. This one-page flyer gives a quick overview of what we are
working on: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://scr.bi/coS3Ek"><span class="s2">http://scr.bi/coS3Ek</span></a>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Also see: </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/social-reporting-at-the">http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/social-reporting-at-the</a>
<br>
</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Social Reporting<br>
</b></span>Many people will be using social media tools to
share news, updates and discussions about IGF2010 already: but
other people are new to using tools like blogging or twitter to
be social reporters. </p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Social Reporters Handbook ( <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bit.ly/aafOFi"><span
class="s2">http://bit.ly/aafOFi</span></a> ) provides all
the information you need to be a social reporter at IGF2010.
Plus you can join us for an informal training session on
Monday afternoon (details here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/aES2id">http://bit.ly/aES2id</a>).</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you will be blogging, tweeting,
making video clips or using other social media tools at IGF
2010, let us know about it here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/dogYnv"><span class="s2">http://bit.ly/dogYnv</span></a> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Aggregating & Curating<br>
</b></span>We’ve built a prototype ‘social reporting
aggregator’ at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://igf2010.diplointernetgovernance.org/"><span
class="s2">http://igf2010.diplointernetgovernance.org/</span></a>
which aims to bring together all the social media being shared
at IGF and to sort it by theme and session. </p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We’ll be developing that site over
the course of IGF to provide the best possible view onto the
social reporting taking place: and we’ll be using it as the
basis to write some more detailed blog posts identifying key
issues emerging from the forum.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you would like to be part of
writing one of these featured blog posts, contact Tim via <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:igf2010@diplomacy.edu"><span
class="s2">igf2010@diplomacy.edu</span></a> to let us
know. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Tagging<br>
</b></span>To help readers make sense of all the different
workshops and themes being explored at IGF it helps if you can
‘tag’ any content you create. You can include hashtags inline in
content (e.g. #igf10 #ws120), or in the ‘tags’ field of blogging
and video sharing websites. </p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We’ve suggested some workshop tags
against each session here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://igf2010.diplointernetgovernance.org/"><span
class="s2">http://igf2010.diplointernetgovernance.org/</span></a>
and our social media aggregator is able to relate workshop
tags to their themes, making it easy to find out in future,
for example, all the twitter messages or blog posts about
cloud computing, or all the video clips that are about access
& diversity. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">However, if you are planning on
using a different tag to talk about a particular session, or a
particular theme, just let us know and we’ll make sure we
capture the content for that too. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Learning<br>
</b></span>Working out how social reporting can add to IGF is
a learning process. We would welcome your feedback, reflections,
ideas and input on how it can be developed. </p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Start a discussion in the Social
Reporting Group on DiploInternetGovernance.org to share your
thoughts: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/bvwUIV"><span class="s2">http://bit.ly/bvwUIV</span></a><br>
</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Have a great IGF!!!<br>
Best,<br>
Ginger <br>
</span></p>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<br>
Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br>
IGCBP Online Coordinator<br>
DiploFoundation<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig">www.diplomacy.edu/ig</a><br>
<br>
<b>The latest from Diplo...</b> <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu">http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu</a>
is a space for discussing ideas and concepts from Diplo’s teaching
and research activities. Our activities focus on three main areas:
Internet governance, diplomacy, and global governance. In
September, we DISCUSS: a) network neutrality: hype and reality, b)
the IGF experience: what can policy makers learn from the IGF, and
c) the history of the Internet. Let us know if you have
suggestions about ideas and concepts that should be discussed.</div>
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