After You Hit Send: How to Integrate Social Media into Campaigning and Advocacy
This training session will give you an overview the tools social media offers that can be used to round out your campaign or advocacy group's communication plan. Tools to be discussed include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and blogs. You'll learn how each tool can fit into your communication plan and best practices for each.
Beth is a co founder of Progressive PST, a social media consulting company that works with campaigns, legislative offices and non profits. She is also the part time New Media Director of ProgressiveCongress.org & Exec. Director of Progressive Congress News. In her spare time she's a twitter addict, avid reader and blogger of all things soups and cats.
Neal Rauhauser is a Progressive activist and community organizer who focuses on energy and social media strategies. He applies his background in software development and telecom network engineering to solving problems in the social media work space for political campaigns and causes. He can be found writing and tweeting under the name Stranded Win.
Alan Rosenblatt, Associate Director of Online Advocacy, is the social media strategist for the Center for American Progress and CAP Action Fund. He created and hosts the Internet Advocacy Roundtable; teaches digital political strategy at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and American Universities; blogs at the Huffington Post, TechPresident.com, K Street Café, and DrDigiPol.com; serves on E-Democracy.org’s board of directors; and was a 2008 fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet. He taught the world’s first internet politics course at George Mason University in 1995. Alan has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University. Find him on Twitter @DrDigipol and @CAPAction.
