What do you want from Netroots UK 2012?

As you’ve been registering online for Netroots UK 2012 in London on 30 June, many of you have been telling us more about what you’d like to see on the day. Here’s a sample of the feedback we’ve been getting in so far. Does it match with what you want from the event?

From the easily pleased:

  • Last year was very good – similar approach updated

To more practical digital skills:

  • Practical website building sessions
  • Free accessible web/social media tools for campaigns with no money
  • Loads of in depth practical sessions on things i don’t know about already and some debate about how we can push forward campaigning online within the trade union movement.

…with a special focus on local groups and campaigns:

  • To find out about getting our local party actively campaigning on the web.
  • Much more on how local organisations political parties and campaigns use social media rather than just a focus on individuals and national bodies
  • Advice and guidance on starting and maintaining effective local advocacy/ activist groups.

Campaigning skills and experience sharing:

  • Good cases of campaigns won – small or big
  • Campaigning on an international scale
  • I’d like to hear how people have translated online campaigns into real action offline by motivated and engaged people.
  • A focus on campaigning for transformational change

Using digital to build a larger and more inclusive progressive movement:

  • Interested in how trade unions can use technology to reach out to hard-to-organise workers.
  • Better connections between this sort of issue activism and the existing democratic structures we already have.
  • A pro-feminist outlook throughout the day.
  • Do we have an idea how to engage young people successfully? The vicious critique of the KONY2012 campaign showed how little we understand this new generation.
  • Want to see how the online progressive community can work together in solidarity. And if it’s possible.
  • Broad digital collaborative working and agile innovation!

A discussion of the changing environment for UK progressives:

  • I’d love to see some discussion of where progressive media stands in the UK.
  • How progressive activism is shifting to adapt to social developments

…and ways take the fight to the government more broadly:

  • Ideas about how analyses and actions on the Coalition’s cuts and privatisation strategy can be more widely and deeply shared
  • I’d like to develop and discuss ideas of how to organise and conduct activism against austerity.
  • How web tools can be used for non-party aligned blocks of people to help unseat the most unprogressive MPs and win seats for more progressive candidates.

And of course:

  • Ideas conversations and inspiration
  • Inspiration!
  • A chance to network and get inspired

We think we can tick a bunch of those already, and will get working on the others! But we want to hear from even more of you. What would make a more useful day for you and your own take on progressive activism?

Add a comment here, or tell us your thoughts when you register online (which you can do here!). And if you’ve an idea for a specific feature or session we could run on the day, send it to us through our submissions form.