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Shebeen Club April Meeting: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations
Social Media
Who: The Shebeen Club and Wesley Regan
What: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations
$20 includes dinner and a drink
When: 7-9pm Monday, April 26th, 2010
Where: UPDATED: On The Edge gastropub, 303 Columbia at Cordova
Why: to help bring non-profit communications into the 21st Century.
And also to have a great dinner out with fellow literati
UPDATE: Note that we’ve had to move it due to the Shebeen being triple-booked that night. We are just a block East and around the corner, at 303 Columbia street around the corner from Cordova at the On The Edge gastropub.
Welcome Shebeen alumnus Wesley Regan as our presenter for the month of April! Note that our meeting’s been pushed back a week from the usual Third Monday for flu-related reasons; all better now!
When it comes to social media no one is an expert, and everyone is an expert. The effectiveness of social media tools to create lasting social change has become the gorilla in the room to social media advocates eager to pronounce a new age in communications. The jury is still out. In fact, the jury is also the defendant, judge, media, lawyers and plaintiff. But there have been some proven benefits and some tricks discovered in the brief time social media has been adopted into mainstream communications strategies. Wes aims to bring the mystique and hyperbole of social media down to earth, exploring its practical uses for environmental, political and social activism, and recounts some of his personal experiences on the social media frontier.
Wesley Regan has worked in marketing and communications since 2004, primarily in health and wellness and community economic development. He is currently the Communications Liaison at Building Opportunities with Business, a community economic development non-profit group active in Vancouver’s inner-city since 2005, and is the Industry Trends Blogger for Thirdi Software, a Yaletown based internet marketing and eCommerce firm. His commentary on technology, social media and economic development in Vancouver has also been featured in Techvibes.
7-7:30 Meet and Greet
7:30-8 Listen and Learn
8-9 Eat, Drink and Be Merry! Or Pippin, if you prefer!
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How Reading Was Popularized
Sad, but true.
Blogging for Writers Telecourse starts April 21st! No it starts May 18th!
Deadlines in the monitor may be closer than they appear
My ten-week Blogging for Writers course begins online 7-8:30pm Wednesday, April 21st 6:30-8 Tuesday, May 18th and runs subsequent Tuesdays 7-8:30 and once a week for a total of ten weeks. You don’t need any blogging experience; we’ll build the blog right in the first class. You do need a computer with a mic, so you can join the Skype conversation, or you need an ability to type almost as fast as you think so you can textSkype and keep up. And, obviously, an internet connection of better than dialup speeds.
Here are the full details:
Blogging for Writers
Learn how to get the most out of blogs for promotion, sales, networking and (unexpectedly) to improve your writing.
In this hands-on workshop we’ll cover setting up a blog, connecting with and managing an audience, using the blog for promotion and sales, and how a blog can make you a better writer, working our way through writers’ exercises and gathering feedback from the class. Be prepared to participate!
The discipline of a daily blogger is a prerequisite to developing a body of work that functions as your online portfolio. Use your blogging as a tool to develop a powerful, confident voice and tackle writing challenges in a supportive, low-pressure environment. Includes exercises and benchmarks to help you analyze your progress and keep your work growing even after the class ends.
I’ve offered this in abbreviated form before; this will be the first complete course, as opposed to an afternoon or a day’s work. There WILL be homework, and it WILL be checked (in fact, it’s due 24 hours before the next class, so I have time to check all the work).
Cost is $250, email bloggingclasses at gmail dot com to register.
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