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COMMUNICAMP
Journalists, social media guru, and winner in the news business model game Adrian Holovaty of Everyblock.com has agreed to be a featured speaker for a kitchen-table conversation during Communicamp.
From ChicagoCrime.org, the web site that aggregated the police department’s Citizen Icam data, to Everyblock (bought by MSNBC.com recently for several million dollars)—with guitar-playing YouTube stardom sandwiched in there somehow, as well –Adrian Holovaty is like a Renaissance Man of online news (in other words he’s the complete package). He’s joining two dozen others who’ve already signed on.
What’s on the agenda?
- New online news business models
- News-community collaborations
- What’s up with the Tribune’s ChicagoNow
- L3Cs (since HarborQuest, the leader in Illinois in making this happen is a sponsor!)
- And… what’s on your agenda?
CommuniCamp is your chance to be the expert. In this advanced communication training we share and learn about the opportunities and challenges in this changing media landscape journey. We are gathering all the tribes that make up our media menu: journalists, nonprofit communicators, bloggers, ethnic media, publicists, social media mavens, videographers, funders and publishers, and more.
Facilitated by Jean Russell, founder of Nurture.biz
Register on our Ning site and join the conversation!
Thursday, October 29; 9AM-5PM -$125 Regular. REGISTER TODAY!
Community Partners: Young Nonprofit Professional Network and Bean Soup Times.
Shifting media landscape
Chicago's Lakefront beach. Photo by Furious-George on www.flickr.com.
New Media Manager Demetrio Maguigad was so busy contemplating the changing media landscape as he led our updating for the 2010 Getting On Air, Online & Into Print that he never made it out to the beach this summer.
He and the rest of the Workshop staff have kept track of the fires, retires—and even some hires—in the ranks of Chicago’s metro, online, ethnic, and community journalists.
 Despite shrinking metro news outlets, the 2010 edition is still bigger than before, thanks to a new online news section and the most complete listings of community and ethnic media in the Midwest, refreshed and updated.
As always it includes thousands of reporters’ emails and direct-dials (and now includes Twitter accounts) and the 60-page Making Media Connections editorial handbook with tips that can help you communicate effectively.
Order yours today! At http://www.newstips.org
PLUS! Check out the new look. You can see sample pages from each section by visiting our sneak peeks:
Guides should be ready to ship around the first half of October.
Nitty Gritty Pub Crawl 
Journalists and the Pubs They Crawl Into
5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, October 8, $25 includes a gift and snacks at the Phil Stefani’s 437 Rush
Come celebrate the release of our yellow pages or journalists by bar-hopping with us at some of our favorite newsy haunts, with some of our favorite journalists including Rick Kogan, Hank DeZutter and Thom Clark. We’ll be crawling into Billy Goat Tavern, Phil Stefani’s 437 Rush and Andy’s Jazz Club.
Register Today!
Trainings this week
This week we kick off a season of workshops, webinars and brown bags to meet all of your communication needs. As always these high value workshops are perfect for organizations on shoe- string budgets.
 Develop & Sharpen Your Message Webinar
Today! Sep. 22: 2:00 - 3:15 PM
Trainer: Valerie Denney
A compelling message moves your audiences to action... but even before the Internet, "message" was much more than words. Sign Up Today!
Power Pitching 2.0
9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, September 23; 218 S. Wabash, Rm. 919
Trainers: Andrew Huff & Claudia Kovitz
How do you get your stories in print -- or blogged? Is the art of the telephone pitch obsolete in an Internet age? Do you need to have a blog, to get your story into an online news site? Answers to these questions and more will help you determine how to get others to tell your organization's story. REGISTER
FREE Brown Bag
Communications Strategy + Meet the Press
noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 at Evanston Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL 60201
The session will also feature:
Mary Gavin, Evanston Roundtable
Tara Malone, The Chicago Tribune
Susan Noyes, MakeItBetter.net
Event is FREE but space is limited, REGISTER Now!
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This fall we have a diverse line up of high-value webinars, workshops and brown bag lunches to meet all of your communication skill needs
Tweet Tweet – Twitter
2 – 3:15 p.m., Monday, September 28, Your desk
Trainer: Lovette Ajayi
Wondering what the hype about Twitter is and how it benefits you? Community Media Workshop’s Lovette Ajayi discusses Twitter best practices and ways your organization can use it to further your mission. 2010 Getting On Air, Online & Into Print media guide of Chicago-area journalists on Twitter.
Sign Up Today!
Dynamic Newsletters—writing and producing, online and in print
9 a.m. to noon, Thursday October 8. REGISTER
Social Media Need To Know
9 a.m. to noon, Friday October 16 with Kara Carell. REGISTER
Branding for Nonprofits
9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, October 22, with Chris Beebe. REGISTER
SEO for Success
9 a.m. to noon, Friday, November 6, with Tim Frick. REGISTER
Crafting a Quick and Dirty Marketing Strategy Webinar
Monday, November 9 with Kivi Leroux Miller. REGISTER
Web Analytics Free Brown Bag Workshop
noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12. REGISTER
Professional Media Relations
Starts Friday, January 22, 2010 with Thom Clark and Gordon Mayer. REGISTER
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 Tran Ha, Editor at RedEye (right) at a recent news meeting with staff.
Tran Ha
Editor, RedEye
RedEye turns seven this fall. At first the paper relied heavily on content from parent paper The Chicago Tribune. It evolved toward celebrity news for a time, but in recent years, says Editor Tran Ha, “We’ve come into our own”--meaning the paper provides readers a well-appreciated mix of top news, need-to-know, sports, where-to-drink, what-to-do. Some of it's still about celebs, and some still comes from the Tribune.
Daily distribution and weekend delivery has made the free RedEye Chicago’s most-read daily paper, she adds. Love it or hate it (and we know there are a lot of you on both sides of that fence) one reason for its success is that the paper always has in mind its audience and their needs, Tran says. Who is that audience? She says it’s one of the most diverse in the city, mostly younger folk, whose definition of news is what’s happening around them.
Tran welcomes pitches that will interest her folks (Worst pitch she ever got? From a certain organization for older Americans that shall remain nameless). Reach her by email at tran@tribune.com. “I read everything that comes through,” she says.
Find more outlets and people to pitch from our 2010 Getting on Air Online & Into Print Media Guide.
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Latest from Newstips
Steelworkers Called Back -- To Dismantle Plant
"We're being forced to tear apart our own plant," said Joe Pakula, an activist with United Steelworkers Local 7367 in western Illinois. READ MORE
Renters Stressed
With more renters paying unaffordable rents and foreclosures and unemployment continuing, we could see "a surge of homelessness" that rivals the recession of the early 1980s -- unless the federal government steps in with "a sustained intervention," said Sheila Crowley of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. READ MORE
Latest from the Newstips Blog
Newspapers past and future
Blackstone bikes
Food justice, Chicago and Detroit
Read latest Newstips | Read Newstips Blog
Newstips is a grassroots news service providing journalists with stories and sources from Chicago-area nonprofits and community organizations. Journalists can receive Newstips via email or subscribe to this RSS feed.
Nonprofits can send their press releases and stories to Curtis Black, Newstip Editor via email at curtis@newstips.org.
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Want to include your events in our "Events Around Town" section of our eNotes? Become a member of our Ning network at www.nonprofitcommunicators.ning.com and post you events. We'll collect activities every two weeks to include them here!
 Aspiring CEO Seminar Series from Axelson Center, at your desk
Six-session series of 60-minute webinars from October 2009 to February 2010, culminating in an in-person session in Chicago. Cost for all five plus in-person session cost is $200, or purchase each webinar for $50, for up to three individuals per organization. Information at www.AspiringCEOSeminar.com or call Axelson Center at 773-244-5799.
Maximizing Online Giving at Year End
Noon - 1:15 pm, Tuesday, October 6
Donors Forum and online fundraising consultant Betsy Harman discuss how to plan and execute a year-end online fundraising strategy. R.egister by visiting Donors Forum’s website
The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
6 p.m. Tuesday, October 6 at Harold Washington Library Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, 400 S. State
D. Bradford Hunt, Associate Professor of Social Science at Roosevelt University and author of Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, will reflect on Chicago public housing from its New Deal roots through the current Mayor Daley's Plan for Transformation. Free. More detailson our Ning netowork: Harold Washington Library; Cindy Pritzker Auditorium.
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Director of Development, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (CTBA) seeks an experienced, Chicago-savvy results oriented development professional to lead its growth as it enters its second decade as a unique non-partisan organization dedicated to the detailed analysis of the budget of the state of Illinois and the education of citizens and decision makers a bout the best ways to sustain and improve the state's public services. Details at the ning: http://nonprofitcommunicators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ctba-seeks-director-of
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
WHAT'S NEW?
FEATURES
TRAINING
PEOPLE TO PITCH
NEWSTIPS
EVENTS AROUND TOWN
COMMUNICATIONS JOBS
Nitty Gritty Pub Crawl
Join the Workshop, Journalists, Friends and Collegues for this year's Nitty Gritty Pub Crawl October 8th at 5 p.m.!
Starting of with a toast and stories by the Trib's Rick Kogan at the Billy Goat Tavern and more from Hank DeZutter & Thom Clark at Ricardo's and ending at Andy's Jazz Club!
Register now!
Read More and view pictures from last year's Pub Crawl
Chicago is the World!
Chicago is the World: A doorway to ethnic media in the American Heartland
Articles, Commentary, Resources and Links for Chicago's Ehtnic journalists and their communities. A blog by Steve Franklin.
 Visit, read and subscribe to Chicago is the World blog.
Nonprofit Communicators!
 Find a place on the web for people like you! Join our nonprofit communicators ning social network.
Join the adventure!
NP Communicator Blog
The Nonprofit Communicator: more tips, resources and reflections for the nonprofit communicator.
Latest Entries:
Visit, read and subscribe to the NP Communicator Blog.
"Community, Media & You" Videocast
“Community, Media, and You” Produced in cooperation with CAN TV Community Forum.
Latest Entries:
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Programming on Chicago Public Radio's "Chicago Amplified"
Listen to Community Media Workshop special events on "Chicago Amplified" at wbez.org. Select "Community Media Workshop" in the "View Event Archives By Partner" drop down menu.
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Press Alert
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