Thanks to all who participated in our Sonoma training! If your club or CC are interested in receiving social media training  or training to better utilize your free CDC site, or wish to join our team of trainers please send a message to:

Brigette Hunley
Chair, CDP Computer & Internet Caucus
www.cdpic.org
brigette.hunley@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/brigette_hunley
707.712.3325


Reminder: Please come join our Facebook group at http://bit.ly/cdpic

Please join us on Saturday night from 6 to 8 pm at the San Diego e-board for our Government 2.0 Transparency Series

Our featured speakers are from OVC and they promise an exciting discussion on the future of voting technology.

We will also be creating a listing of Gov 2.0 candidates and resources.
This listing will be the start of our Gov 2.0 directory which will go out at the April convention.

In addition, We will be expanding our New Media Outreach program. Caucus members will be able to sign up for this program at the meeting. Sign ups will be taken for both mentor trainers and trainees.
We will also be voting on the bylaws changes.

We have a lot to discuss at this meeting, and I look forward to seeing you all there.

Brigette Hunley
Chair, CDPIC

Here is a testimonial to the current success of the new media outreach program!
This email is from a training conducted on behalf of our caucus last week.

Brigette,

I want to echo Therese's thanks. We appreciate your coming all the way to Petaluma to train us. You took away much of the intimidation I was feeling with your clear instructions and step-by-step approach. Your training will ripple far and wide, as I will also be managing the Sonoma County Latino Democratic Club's site once we get plugged into the CDC, and Dan will be bringing another club up to speed with what we learned last night.

Thank you again,

Holly Jaramillo
Dem. Club of So. Sonoma Co.
Sonoma Co. Dem Latino Club
Sonoma Co. Dem Central Commte

The phrase Network Neutrality describes networks that don't favor some destinations over others, or classes of application (for example the World Wide Web) over others (such as online gaming or Voice over IP).

However, several major Internet providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are trying to control access to the Internet by deciding which Web sites are best for you. The speed at which a website loads would be based on which site pays them the most.

This means that large corporations would have an unfair advantage over their smaller competitors as they will be able to afford to pay the most. This also means that startup sites with new ideas and applications will never get seen if they can't afford to pay the high fees to get their sites viewed.

In addition, this will allow ISPs to control which websites you have access to. There have already been several documented cases where ISPs have blocked access to various sites:

• Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com -- an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme.
  
• Canada's telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.

A major communications bill that addresses Net Neutrality is in front of Congress right now and is in danger of being defeated by the large corporations if we don't speak up.

For a brief video discussing this issue, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jHOn0EW8U