Sean Parker

If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a YouTube video is worth conference fees and several hours of your life -- particularly when it's bringing you a fascinating panel from NCOC about Facebook's role in and impact on civic engagement.

That's right ... today's post is the as-promised third installment of our NCOC coverage, from our introduction, to Kristen's event notes, to the final video of Bill Galston, Sean Parker, and Joe Trippi (see below). So far, the comments and reactions here have been really thoughtful, even extending into posts/threads over at Beth's Blog and PhilanTopic.

So give this choice piece of cinema a look-see, and then check out the rest of Kristen's coverage after the fold!

The 55^th Annual National Conference on Citizenship is taking place today at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the leadership of new Executive Director David Smith, a major component of this year’s session is the use of technology and new media as an indication of civic health and a tool for effective community organizing.

The morning’s sessions have already proven interesting and useful for Social Citizens on a variety of levels, and a longer blog is to come, but I just couldn’t wait to pose the following questions to you from this morning’s panel. Sean Parker of Facebook and Bill Galston from the Brookings Institution, engaged in a panel discussion moderated by Joe Trippi entitled “Can Facebook replace face-to-face?” which took an in-depth look at social networks as communities and organizing tools.

The Causes application on Facebook celebrated its one-year anniversary last week. I had a chance to catch up with Joe Green and Sean Parker, the founders of Causes (previously known as Project Agape), this week at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy conference.