We asked previous attendees of the Making Media Connections Conference what their favorite part of the conference was, and got some interesting answers! See what Yesenia Sotelo, Director of New Media at Jasculca Terman & Associates, had to say about her experience connecting with other nonprofit communicators at last year’s conference in the video below!
Join Yesenia at this year’s Making Media Connections conference to connect with nonprofit communicators, Chicago-area media makers, journalists, bloggers and more!
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
What we need to know about social media changes all the time as nonprofits change how we use online tools and share. This workshop will help those who supervise work with external audiences as well as those doing it day to day to think through some of the challenges it presents to the organization as well as one or two of the most significant new hands-on skills to have.
In this session you will learn:
• How and why nonprofits are leading in adopting Facebook, Twitter, blogs and more social media tools
• Listening techniques—simple ways to ensure your organization is participating in online conversations that relate to you and your work areas
• Common issues that come up as nonprofits add social media to their communications toolkits and how to lead your organization through them
Whether you run your organization or not, find out what kind of changes using Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs may bring to your organization and assess how to lead you’re your group through those changes.
About Emily
Before moving to Chicago in 2008, Emily Culbertson was Web managing director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she co-led a re-launch of RWJF.org in June 2008 and helped coordinate the foundation’s social media. Prior to that she was a senior account manager and eHealth strategist at I-SITE, a Philadelphia-based web agency, and she began her web career as a multimedia editor for the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s consumer Web site. She has also covered federal courts for the Associated Press, several Philadelphia suburban daily newspapers and Philadelphia’s legal daily newspaper. Culbertson is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in urban studies.
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