NPI Event Invite: Using Social Networking Tools

Social networking has always played a key role in impacting others, whether the impact is direct or indirect. The new wave of social networking websites and related tools just supercharge an individual’s ability to do this and make an impact.

Come to a lunch event where the New Politics Institute explores how to use this new social networking environment to enhance your personal or organizational goals. Social networking is one of the least mature of the new media tools transforming the non-profit and advocacy world, so figuring out effective strategies is more difficult than with tools that have been around longer like blogs. That’s why we are ending our fall roll-out of the 2007 New Tools Campaign of eight tools with a whole event devoted to social networking.

Social Networking Tools
Wednesday November 14, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 PM (Lunch will be served)
Phoenix Park Hotel
520 North Capitol Street
Washington, DC
RSVP:
Dave O'Donnell - dodonnell@ndn.org - or 202-384-1212

We will be bringing together four experts who know the technology and the best new strategies, and can clearly explain what works. They are:

Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook, one of the big two social networking sites where an explosion of politicking is going on. Chris has written a memo for NPI that will be released that day on all the ways social networking is being used in politics.

John Hlinko, President and CEO, Grassroots Enterprise, a DC Communications firm helping politicos use new media and tactics.

Cheryl Contee, Vice President, Fleishman Hillard, San Francisco, has worked with progressive organizations like Amnesty International and Witness to get their messages out through social networks and engage their supporters.

Ben Rattray, Founder and CEO, Change.org, an up-and-coming smaller social networking website dedicated exclusively to serving social and political groups.

The event is open to the public and is free to all. Feel free to spread this to anyone in a progressive organization who might benefit. But make sure everyone RSVPs. Thanks.

Peter Leyden