The virtual Democratic convention has potential to be a really cool thing, perfect for the times.

[Music Man]

Especially since the conventions are really just commercials these days anyway, it's almost a perfect opportunity to use the medium to our benefit. With a combination of live and pre-recorded material, this can be an exciting way to liven up the convention experience for television, taking what would otherwise be a frustrating impediment and using it as an advantage.

I think of how lots of people were worried about what the virtual NFL draft would look like. Turns out that it was a fun experience, and commentators raved about what a nice change of pace it was.

Here's hoping the Democratic Party gets the best show business and tech people on this and absolutely nails it.

[Thekaspervote]

1. +1000

[OrlandoDem2]

2. A virtual convention is what happens when your party's nominee cares more about the country than

himself. We need to repeat that over and over again.

[SunSeeker]

3. That virtual concert fundraiser for the World Health Organization was awesome.

The Rolling Stones sounded better than they had in years, and I didn't miss the crowds.

If done well, a virtual convention will be a breakthrough, giving each Democrat, indeed each American, a ticket to the convention, and a feeling of belonging and ownership in the process.

[Wounded Bear]

4. The NFL Draft went off very well in virtual mode...nt

[Music Man]

5. Yes, it was fun :)

Went off without a hitch, and a lot of folks had the frame of mind that it's hard to imagine a draft that wasn't like that one.

Funny how matters of necessity lead to things that wind up becoming precedent.

[Skittles]

6. I thought the graduation ceremonies were great

add in some celebrities and a good time can be had by all

[yortsed snacilbuper]

7. When life gives you lemons,

make lemonade!

[Hortensis]

8. They say it'll be a "convention across America," which sounds

promising. I'm sorry now we didn't see at least a bit of the virtual NFL draft, but with over 600 cameras in everybody's homes, etc., it sounds like it was something of a "draft across America."
I'd bet anything our planners were watching to see how it came off. Biden will be in Milwaukee, but the delegations will, I guess of course, be in their home states. Epidemiologists consulted on all, no one dying "for" the party.

Speaking of lemons and lemonade, at least our original plan to develop a new model of sustainability for this and future conventions should be fairly easy to carry off without tens of thousands of people pouring into Milwaukee for the big national party.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

9. Less travel

Benefits the environment. We should have adopted this as soon as it was technically feasible. How long ago was An Inconvenient Truth?

[yellowdogintexas]

10. Texas had a good virtual convention.

It was put together on shorter notice than the National one.

The best part: being able to have VPBiden, Speaker Pelosi, Senators Harris, Warren, and other party dignitaries all speak at the general sessions. I missed the lively atmosphere of being in the hall with 10000 Democrats, but it still worked.

We were also able to attend caucuses, and a really neat event called the "Women's Room" whichfeatured women from across the state, just dropping in for a visit There were scheduled speakers who led various discussions, we all introduced ourselves to each other. Normally this is a room or area set aside for women to drop in and hear speakers, take a load off, visit, have light refreshments. The virtual version was more condensed timewise but we were able to interface with more people at one time.

I believe the DNC can pull off a great convention, especially since they have had more lead time than we did.

[RussellCattle]

11. "Gets the best show business and tech people". Perfect. We'll have all the...

....creative and talented types working for us and the convention will be a great show that more people will watch than usual. The republicans can't match that for no other reason than they lack happiness. Think about Trent Lott and "The Singing Senators", a truly bad barbershop quartet that performed at a convention a few years back. Painful to watch.

[DrToast]

12. Apple just did a virtual conference that got rave reviews

Obviously Apple’s WWDC is something in a much smaller scale, but I agree there is an opportunity to do something cool.

[William Seger]

13. Need to do virtual rallies, too

[NurseJackie]

14. It will all but eliminate unruly and disrespectful behavior from attendees.

[ancianita]

15. Virtual rallies might be just a warmup to a convention that would be spectacular across platforms.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Hoping it reduces MAGAt protest rallies

It becomes its own self-contained event with little opportunity, no location, for counter protesting