And it's over. After the rushing and packing and coordinating and blogging in the hours leading up to the convention, and then the buses and taxis and planes and cars to get back home, it's hard to believe it's over. What an amazing experience, and what a perfect time and place for launching WomenCount.

A quick recap:

• We hosted an immensely successful event featuring Senator Hillary Clinton, hours before she took the stage to give her electrifying speech to the Convention. (See a video here. )
  
  
• We met an incredible group of bloggers working on and writing about issues that are important to women.
  
  
• We asked a range of women and men why women count in this election season, and posted their responses to our new YouTube channel. (Watch them here —including new ones with Ashley Judd and Jamie Foxx!)
  
  
• We responded to the distorted coverage of our issues in the mainstream press, and said our own piece.
  
  
• We moderated a panel on cracks to the glass ceiling and what's next for women in politics. (Watch a clip here. )
  
  
• And, most important of all, we met hundreds of women and men who are tired with politics as we know them—tired of the sexism in media, tired of the transactional nature of politics, tired of being consigned to a "women's ghetto"—and ready to work with WomenCount for a change.

 

All in all, a huge success, and an auspicious beginning for WomenCount. If you couldn't be in Denver this past week, we hope our coverage gave you a sense of the energy, the excitement, and the momentum that we saw for change, and for WomenCount.

Now, we need to unpack our bags, do some laundry, and get ready for the Republican National Convention next week. What will McCain's choice of a female VP candidate mean? How will it change the election for women this Fall? How will Republicans look to woo women in November? All that and more to come next week.

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