March 9th sees the launch of Digital Citizens, a new salon-style forum founded by former members of Social Media Club Sydney Heather Ann Snodgrass and Cathie McGinn along with Scott Rhodie, James Fridley and Gavin Costello.

The intention is to provide an open forum which encourages free and frank debate. Digital Citizens is an inclusive, informal organisation dedicated to knowledge sharing and discussion of social, political, ethical and professional issues related to new technologies and the social web.  It’s agency agnostic and the only qualification for participating is the desire to speak.

The first event is at the Burdekin, Tuesday March 9th at 6.30pm, and will debate issues around the personal and professional in digital space, who owns your tweets and whether or not the indiviudal is ever entitled to publicly disagree with their employer or clients.
 
Kicking off the debate will be US lawyer and social media advisor Adrian Dayton (Social Media for Lawyers), Sam North (Ogilvy PR), Damian Damjanovski (BMF) and Renai LeMay (Delimiter), and will debate the line where the personal and professional gets blurred.

Bronwen Clune (Strategeist) will be attempting to bring order to the chaos as moderator.

Want to nominate a speaker? Email us at digitalcitizensaus@gmail.com.