Decompressing from the DNC...

Denver hosted an amazing Democratic National Convention. The city simply sparkled.

I'm currently sitting in my hotel room decompressing from an incredibly full schedule of events, interviews and parties. FORA was able to capture some amazing content, which is currently available on our Convention page.

My favorite event from the entire week was a panel co-sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations entitled Combating Global Poverty. The panel was loaded with heavyweights, including James D. Wolfensohn, Timothy E. Wirth, Gayle Smith, Donald M. Payne, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Hernando de Soto, Tom Daschle, John J. Danilovich, Nancy Birdsall, Madeleine Albright and Ben Affleck.

I was greatly moved by this exchange. I was also incredibly impressed by a bearded Ben Affleck (Stuart refers to him as Beard Affleck), who besides being an accomplished actor, also seems to be a fine philanthropist.

We also shot some amazing interviews, panels and FlipVideo (FORA's new favorite toy) with our friends from The New Republic. Frank Foer, Noam Scheiber, Michael Crowley, Dayo Olopade and Eve Fairbanks delivered some great interviews.

Many thanks to The Ritz-Carlton's VP of Public Relations Vivian Deuschl for providing FORA a temporary home to shoot and upload our interviews with the folks from TNR, and also for being such an incredibly nice woman. The downside of hanging out at The Ritz all week is the inevitable letdown of not hanging out at The Ritz. I suppose I'll have to acclimate.

Overall, I feel our experience at the DNC was a very successful new venture and we are extremely excited to do it all over again for the Republican National Convention next week.

Until then, check out a FlipVideo ThinkTank I assembled of my trek into Mile High Stadium for Obama's acceptance speech.

I also managed to snap a few pics while inside the stadium, which are accesible on our Flickr page.

Until the RNC...