Twitter Love: A Practical Guide to Grassroots Outreach With Tweets

Submitted by dcacoilo on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 8:56pm
Short Description: 

Are you an organization that has heard of Twitter and thinks it might be a good way to enhance your outreach? Twitter allows its users to broadcast short messages on a personalized news feed. How can this be used to catalyze social change and further the mission and efforts of an organization? This workshop will demystify Twitter and show step-by-step how and why an organization can adopt this tool. Is Twitter a good fit for you?

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
Pollie Barden
Presenter One Info: 

Pollie Barden is a designer working with the Institute of Play on a wellness social network for middle school students and collaborating with BridgeMultimedia and the Social Justice Internship Program at NYU on a vocational network for people with developmental disabilities. She has a masters in Interactive Telecommunications Program from NYU.

Presenter Two Name: 
Doris Cacoilo
Presenter Two Info: 

Doris Cacoilo is an artist/activist/educator. She is director of _gaia, an artist collective working to help support women artists and the advocacy of women's issues. She has an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, and is currently teaching at Hunter College.

doris@gaiastudio.org

Presenter Three Name: 
Ingrid Hu Dahl
Presenter Three Info: 

Ingrid Hu Dahl is an Editor for Youth Media Reporter and a Program Officer at the Academy for Educational Development. She is a founding member of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls and a guitarist in the band Boyskout. She holds a M.A. degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University.

idahl@aed.org

Presenting organization: 
_gaia studio and Youth Media Reporter