Today, a few of us are at the Lunch 2.0 + New Politics Institute two-hour conversation/lunch at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, DC on social networking in the political space. (More details at the Lunch 2.0 DC facebook group.)

My friend Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs is live-streaming through UStream and you can used to be able to watch it live here.

Should have some thoughts after the session.

UPDATE 8:44 PM: Finishing up an Internet training workshop at the Leadership Institute. I spoke about the wonderful world of YouTube, Andy Roth of the Club For Growth is talking about the work they do to effectively get a message out, and Soren Dayton is on deck.

Regarding the social networking discussion today I wasn't overwhelmed.

I think that Peter Leyden of the New Politics Institute, which is the liberal organization that hosted the discussion, is a great speaker and has some really ground-breaking and interesting things to say about tech + politics. [Sample interview]

The only problem was that Peter didn't really speak, but simply played the role of the moderator. Ah well.

Don't misunderstand me. The rest of the panel was certainly filled with effective communicators who added value to the discussion and play major roles in the space, but I didn't really learn anything. Know what I mean?

Pretty sure Joe and I were the only Republicans in the room. Am I wrong?