Uploaded to this blog post, you will find an audio podcast of Mathew Gross's speech from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. Mathew Gross was the 2007 Public Advocacy Innovator.

Mathew Gross "rewrote the rules of presidential politics" and "put blogging at the center of the Democrats' nominating campaign" when he left his home in Moab, Utah to launch the first presidential campaign weblog for Howard Dean in March of 2003. As Director of Internet Communications for the Dean campaign, Gross helped to develop and implement the online strategy that raised more than $25 million online and built Blog for America into one of the top weblogs in the world, attracting more than 100,000 readers per day at the height of the primary season.

Audio and video files from previous events, as well as Americans for the Arts' monthly podcast, can be accessed from our website. To listen to this podcast, please click on the play button below.