Making Media Connections 2009

2009 Making Media Connections Conference

Tuesday June 9th to Thursday June 11, 2009
Columbia College Chicago Film Row Cinema.
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Chicago, Illinois (click for map)

Join community leaders, nonprofit communicators and board members, mainstream and independent journalists, publishers, media experts and the general public to discuss getting our communities’ important stories told.

Come ready to sharpen your media relations and communications skills at workshops and panel discussions lead by the nation’s top media relations experts. You’ll meet journalists interested in your stories and network with peers.

May 28, 2009 0

Conference Sessions to be Live Blogged

A stellar team of volunteers will be live-blogging a number of Thursday’s break-out sessions. Since we cannot physically be two places at once, our live bloggers will make sure we can “virtually” be two places at once. So bring your laptop to the Conference and follow along with what’s happening in that session you can’t attend.

The following sessions on Thursday will be live-blogged:

9 to 9:30 a.m., Keynote Speaker Monica Davey, New York Times Midwest Bureau Chief

9:45 to 10:45 a.m., Global Chicago

11 to Noon, Cause Marketing

1 to 1:45 p.m., Keynote Speaker Colonel Tribune, Chicago Tribune

2 to 3 p.m., Funding Communications in an Age of Austerity

3:15 to 5 p.m., Social Media, News & Us

We’d also like to thank all our live bloggers for helping us put the Conference online.

May 4, 2009 0

Interview with Beth Kanter

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Interview with Beth Kanter at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco [5:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Interview with Nonprofit Social Media Blogger and trainer, Beth Kanter at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, April 28, 2009. Get a sneek peek into her sessions at the Making Media Connections Conference.

(If you want to see Holly’s dance–listen to the podcast and this’ll make sense–or get more on Beth’s take from NTEN, check out Beth’s blog entry on the topic).