Gina Cooper is the founder and past CEO of Netroots Nation. Her approach to online politics, which relies on technology to bring together engaged Americans and political experts, has become a cornerstone of the progressive movement. Cooper continues to explore innovative ways in which the Internet can help ordinary people become invested in finding their own political solutions, nationally and internationally. Current start-ups include ProjectOnePage, TweetProgress, Middlecoast, and Cooper Strategies.
Erika Gregory is President and Founder of Collective Invention, a multi-disciplinary consultancy that leverages insights from organizational development, anthropology, architecture, design, the arts and business. Based in San Francisco, Collective Invention works businesses, schools, philanthropies, NGOS, corporations, and government agencies dedicated to innovation that serves the common good. Much of Collective Invention’s work focuses on breakthrough approaches to education, health, and environmental sustainability.
Jennifer Nix is currently Publisher of Guernica Magazine. A former National Public Radio producer (On the Media) and staff writer for Variety, Jennifer has also written for New York, The New York Observer, The Nation, Village Voice, National Law Journal, Salon, AlterNet, FireDogLake, DailyKos, and HuffingtonPost as well as other media outlets and blogs. As editor-at-large for Chelsea Green Publishing, she acquired George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant and pioneered a Web-based marketing model that had Lakoff's work on the New York Times' and other bestseller lists for months.
Ted Nordhaus "is an author, researcher, and political strategist. In the fall of 2007, Houghton Mifflin will publish The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics, to be co-authored with Michael Shellenberger. In October 2004, Shellenberger and Nordhaus published an essay by the same name, creating an international debate over the future of progressive politics.
As some of you may have heard, Google last week made a surprise decision to stop developing Google Wave at the end of this year. At Next Agenda, we are very disappointed by this news.
