X good day, everybody. Good day, everybody. Welcome to George Washington university and the jack morton auditorium. We like to say we are the crossroads in Public Affairs to where media, politics, communication meet, collide, explode, whatever verb you. As we have all seen, the world is going more digital and we want to make sure that the people at Strategic Communication and advocacy students are at the forefront of understanding how you apply big data for political success. Todays seminar is very timely. I am pleased to be collaborating with the school of Public Affairs. Frank will be leading the conversation here. Tonk has a great background make sure that we are highlighting the best innovations in sustainability. He also is an Emmy Awardwinning journalist, prior to being the leader of the school of snpa he was with cnn for 21 years. Lease welcome to the podium frank sesno. [applause] thank you, mark. Good day, everybody. Welcome to George Washington university and the jack morton
Good day, everybody. Welcome to George Washington university and the jack morton auditorium. We like to say we are the crossroads in Public Affairs to where media, politics, communication meet, collide, explode, whatever verb you andse, they do it at snpa we are very pleased and honored to be part of this event today. I want to thank you again for joining us at this digital campaigning when he 12 and beyond event. And we hope youll join us for subsequent events as well. We have other ones upcoming am hosting a panel of journalists who will be discussing covering the midterm elections. This will include professional journalist from roll call, meet the press, washington post, and surely coincidentally im all of which happened to be alumni of George Washington university and our program. Please join us for that. You wouldnt want to miss that. And i joinrk kennedy in thanking him. Paul wilsons contribution help make possible the school of media and Public Affairs to host the conference whi
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Good afternoon, everybody. Im mark kennedy, the director of the graduate school here at George Washington university, and we welcome everyone here from George Washington university to our panel on digital complaints, 2012 and beyond. We give a special welcome to our cspan audience thats joining us. We also give a special welcome to those from the American Political Science Association that have come to all day seminars here in advance of their conference study tomorrow. At the graduate school of political management, we are very pleased that one of George Washingtons trustees, Mark Shenkman who is with us here today has funded a series of research an digital campaigning. As weve all seen, the world in all aspects of our life is going more digital and we want to make sure that our students are at the forefront of understanding how you apply big data for political success. So todays seminar is very timely. Im very pleased to be collaborating with this with the school of media and Public
Good afternoon, everybody. Im mark kennedy, the director of the graduate school here at George Washington university, and we welcome everyone here from George Washington university to our panel on digital complaints, 2012 and beyond. We give a special welcome to our cspan audience thats joining us. We also give a special welcome to those from the American Political Science Association that have come to all day seminars here in advance of their conference study tomorrow. At the graduate school of political management, we are very pleased that one of George Washingtons trustees, Mark Shenkman who is with us here today has funded a series of research an digital campaigning. As weve all seen, the world in all aspects of our life is going more digital and we want to make sure that our students are at the forefront of understanding how you apply big data for political success. So todays seminar is very timely. Im very pleased to be collaborating with this with the school of media and Public