Only days away…. Register for the 2012 Making Media Connections conference!
One of the Workshop’s key events each year since 1993, our conference is designed for nonprofit communicators: volunteers and staff who are responsible for telling their group’s story through the news media or other channels. We bring them together with journalists looking for stories ‘off the beaten path’ and invite them to join in a dialogue on how to produce news that matters.
“Well-organized conference. Speaker has great passion & energy and used lots of great examples.” – Rachel Dziallo, Erie Family Health
Conference attendees get four key takeaways:
- Training: increase nonprofit communicators’ skills and understanding of the news process, allowing them to better access the media in ways that are effective;
- Sourcing: journalists get leads and sources from among a group that tends to receive ‘spot’ coverage rather than more focused and influential treatment;
- Skill-building:Connecting these two groups with web advocates and nonprofit technologists in order to develop a better understanding of new media to deliver their message and,
- Relationship-building: the conference builds relationships between nonprofit and news outlet personnel. Beyond more and better coverage of nonprofits, their constituents, and their issues, the outcome of our conferences has been understanding and consensus on where nonprofits fit in the news cycle.
Like so many things in life, blogging is only worth doing if you’re going to do it right. Find out what it takes to blog effectively.
On April 11, Community Media Workshop is proud to host a basic blogging workshop that’s hands on and will help you learn about launching, writing and publicizing your organization’s blog.
Participants will also learn:
- How blogging can help your nonprofit promote your message
- Tips on how to maintain your blog and generate content
- How to raise the visibility of your blog using social media
Led by former Chicago Tribune reporter and ChicagoNow blogger Teresa Puente (Teresa will also be speaking at our Making Media Connections conference this June).
Click here to learn more about and register for this workshop
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Getting On Air, Online & Into Print
9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 12
Presented by Demetrio Maguigad, REGISTER
Learn to incorporate the 2010 Getting On Air, Online & Into Print media guide into your communications plan as well as how to get the most from the digital portion of the guide, from installation to basic and advance media searches along with other tips and tricks. LuAnn Wing of Aid Africa’s Children said of this session recently, “I learned about sources to check out and examples of how people solved their marketing/PR problem. It was very helpful in understanding how things work.”
2 to 3:15 p.m. CST, Tuesday, February 9
$25, REGISTER
With: Tamar Charney, program director, Michigan Radio; Steve Edwards, acting program director, Chicago Public Radio; Jerome Vaughn, news director, Detroit Public Radio; Bill Wheelhouse, general manager WUIS-Springfield. Moderator: Thom Clark, Community Media Workshop
Media changes are pushing public listener-supported radio to the forefront of how Americans get their news in many communities. In this conversation, four leaders from two states share views on their stations’ changing goals and roles and how they envision local nonprofits as partners and audience members.
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