I’ll be helping out at Netroots UK, a big event for progressive online activists on 8 Jan in London. It’s shaping up to be a very exciting looking day, with practical training sessions running alongside movement strategy stuff, and plenty of neworking opportunities.

I’m particularly interested in a session looking at how bloggers and online activists can group together to boost each other’s efforts and reduce their organsiation overheads. From my experience with Tigmoo.co.uk, a little can go a long way, and the more “infrastructure” projects we can get in the left blogohemisphere the better for all concerned.

It’ll be great too to learn from some US speakers – from Netroots Nation themselves, Blue State Digital, ex-Obama campaigners and hopefully more too (especially on trends where they’re ahead of us – the TPA are but the thin end of a wedge, people!).

But at the same time, I think it will have a very UK flavour – the numbers just don’t translate between our countries, and politics and the media are very different beasts on both sides. Just linking ourselves up will be value in itself – imagine the Twitter tax protests fortified with the organisational rigour of Hope Not Hate, or unions learning (shudder) from the flexibility of the student occupations.

2011 is going to be one battle after another, and this is my resolution to get skilled up and linked up for the campaigns to come.