ADVISORY/Firetalk to Host Interactive Broadcasts at Shadow Convention, Los Angeles.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. (August 13) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Following the successful debut of its Virtual Auditorium auditorium Portion of a theater or hall where an audience sits, as distinct from the stage. The auditorium originated in the theaters of ancient Greece, as a semicircular seating area cut into a hillside. technology at last week's Shadow Convention in Philadelphia Philadelphia, ancient cities Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. B.C. , Firetalk will present a live, interactive broadcast of events from the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Shadow Convention beginning this Sunday. Online broadcasts of events from the Philadelphia convention Historical context Before the Constitution was drafted, those who came to be known as Federalists and Anti-Federalists both agreed about the government's failure to deal with commerce. opened a channel for political expression on issues such as campaign finance reform Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. , war on drugs, and poverty to over 30,000 people located remotely.
What: Shadow Convention Interactive Broadcasts
When: Beginning Sunday, August 13, 2000 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time
The News:
-- Firetalk Virtual Auditorium technology will allow thousands to
participate in Internet conversations with leading politicians
and activists throughout the Shadow Convention, Los Angeles
-- The series of Firetalk interactive events are open to anyone
with a PC and Internet access throughout the duration of the
convention (August 13 - August 17)
-- Shadow Convention and Firetalk were conceived with a similar
vision -- giving voice to millions of Americans
To Participate: For up-to-date schedules, or to participate in the live Virtual Auditorium events from the Shadow Convention, log on to www.firetalk.com. What is The Shadow Convention? The Shadow Conventions 2000 (www.shadowconventions.com): A Citizens' Intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. in American Politics will counter the conventional by focusing on issues that the political parties just won't touch. Just as Shadow Convention, Philadelphia paralleled the Republican National Convention last week, the Los Angeles event will do the same with Democratic National Convention to bring together some of the nation's leading thinkers on a variety of important issues that are not addressed at the party-specific conventions. About "Virtual Auditoriums" Firetalk Virtual Auditoriums are the first truly interactive, large-scale voice broadcasts. Firetalk Virtual Auditoriums allows organizations and Web sites to create and moderate their own events, scale events to thousands of people and allow participants to interact directly with speakers. Unlike other Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the applications, Virtual Auditoriums offers live interaction with people from anywhere in the world, full moderation capability, scalability (thousands of participants), and integrated communication services. About Firetalk Firetalk (www.firetalk.com) is the leading provider of fully integrated voice services on the Internet. The company's Internet-based voice service provides in a single, powerful application, worldwide calls, unlimited conference calls, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , voice mail, voice chat on any web site, web touring with live voice, and now Virtual Auditoriums. |
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