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 Becker is a partner and co-founder of Progressive PST, a company that helps Democratic candidates across the country use social media as a part of their overall communication strategy. In her spare time Beth works on a variety of progressive related projects including as a co-founder of the Blog Workers Industrial Union, board member for PeanutButterPAC and netroots outreach assistant for several campaigns.
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.
