• Vikki Porter, director, Knight Digital Media Center, USC Annenberg School for Communication

Keynote address: “Transparency in the Age of the Internet”

• Ellen S. Miller, co-founder and executive director, the Sunlight Foundation

How cyber campaigns are carried out.  What has worked, what doesn’t work, and online attacks and defenses.

• Karen A.B. Jagoda, Founder and President, E-Voter Institute
• Colin Delany, founder and chief editor, epolitics.com
• Morra Aarons-Mele , Political Director, BlogHer.com, and Columnist, Huffington Post and TechPresident.com
• Dennis W. Johnson, professor, political management, George Washington University

Blogs, wikis, crowdsourcing, Google documents, and other tools.
Facilitated by Brant Houston

• Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news technology, The New York Times
• Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative, Enterprise Journalism, University of Illinois
• Matthew Waite, news technologist, St. Petersburg Times/Tampabay.com

Constructing the Congressional candidate’s profile with data (part one):  Obtaining campaign revenue and expenses and lobbyists’ filings (current and previous, Federal and state).  Finding the shadow committees and supporters.

• Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post

Constructing the Congressional candidate’s profile with data (part two): Tracking and capturing the legislation, the earmarks, and the favors.

• Bill Allison, senior fellow, Sunlight Foundation
• Larry Makinson, Campaign Finance Researcher Consultant
• Paul Singer, investigative reporter, Roll Call

Navigating and checking the credibility and backgrounds of supporters, opponents and operatives.  Investigating the Web sites, their links and the online players - special interests and parties - outside the Congressional candidates’ committees.

• Margot Williams, Database Research Editor, The New York Times
• Marc Cooper, Associate Director, Institute for Justice and Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication

Visualizing the information from mashups to social network analysis.  What you could be doing on your Web sites.
Facilitated by Brant Houston

• Dan Newman, co-founder, executive director, MAPLight.org
• Matthew Waite, news technologist, St. Petersburg Times/Tampabay.com
• Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative, Enterprise Journalism, University of Illinois

Buffet lunch - working lunch with teams

Each group will develop strategies and content for coverage and investigations of Congressional candidates.  Groups will do PowerPoint presentations for Saturday.

Group presentations and discussions.

Discussion of best strategies and creating memos of the watchdog plan for the next 30 days and long-term coverage.

• Vikki Porter, director, Knight Digital Media Center, USC Annenberg School for Communication