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Join us for the 2012 Making Media Connections Conference! Take advantage now of our early bird registration doscounts. View the Conference site now for more information about workshops and panel sessions. Visit Site

TOOLS & TACTICS OF ONLINE MARKETING 
Thursday, May 24th, 2012, 9AM to Noon
With Marissa Wasseluk
Strengthen your online efforts with effective tools and tactics that will help you make the most of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and your blog. Find out what these communications tools can actually do for your organization and how they work in tandem to increase your online presence. Learn to think strategically about social media with this intermediate training. REGISTER TODAY!

There are no webinars scheduled at this time. Please check back soon for upcoming webinars!

Experts share insights on the latest communication trends in traditional and social media. Brown bag workshops are free but registration is required.

There are no upcoming Brown Bag sessions scheduled at this time. Please check back periodically to view future sessions and reserve your space!

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Learn to tell your stories better, using all the tools of communications, advocacy, outreach, and marketing, such as: media relations, using new media/technology, developing print materials, planning strategy, holding events, and other types of public relations. We are known for:

• Hands-on, practical training
• Emphasis on how to create compelling stories to increase visibility among media,funders and other audiences
• Providing tools to integrate Web 2.0 and social media into your communications and fundraising efforts
• Leading workshops that honor the ways adults learn, are interactive, and engaging
• Providing handouts you can use, not put on a shelf

Learn more about real people’s successes using what they learned from us by viewing some recent success stories

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Our workshops are for nonprofit communicators–staff and volunteers responsible for telling their organizations’ stories. They come from grassroots and community organizations, arts groups, hospitals and universities, social-service agencies, philanthopry, and other types of nonprofit.

While we do not turn for-profit communicators away, for popular workshops we may wait-list them to make sure there are seats for all the nonprofit communicators who wish to attend. If you are in corporate communications or at a for-profit PR firm, we encourage you to visit the sites of  our colleagues in PR, such as Ragan Communications, the Publicity Club of Chicago, PRNewswire, or the Public Relations Society of America.

To learn more about our participants, you can download a list of groups who accessed our services last year.

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We are half grant-funded and the rest of our revenue comes from selling workshops, trainings, and our Chicago-market media guide, Getting On Air, On-line, & Into Print to other nonprofits.

This allows us to keep the costs of our workshops at a fraction of the price of equivalent sessions in the private sector. Workshop prices take into account fees for our trainers (typically much-reduced from what they typically charge as a service to the nonprofit community), other fixed costs such as serving coffee, water, and meals during workshops.

Scholarships are always available to organizations with budgets under $100,000—please view our Scholarship Policy. You may also want to check the details of our Cancellation Policy.

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We are happy to provide custom sessions that respond to specific needs or to reinforce core messages at your organization.

Organizations we have worked with recently include ACCESS, Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at North Park University, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Latinos Progresando, Local Initiatives Support Corp., Michigan Nonprofit Association, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, Progressive Technology Project, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

To learn more about our custom training view our services and contact Nora Ferrell, Nora@newstips.org or Diana Pando, Diana@newstips.org, or call us, 312-369-6400.

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Unless noted elsewhere, our trainings take place in our classroom at our walk-in location at:

Community Media Workshop

at Columbia College

218 S Wabash

Chicago, IL 60605

Tel: 312-369-6400

Fax: 312-369-6404

Email: cmw@newstips.org

CLICK HERE TO VIEW A MAP OF OUR LOCATION.

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