First Post

Community Media Workshop has been following blogging from the sidelines for more than a year. We've decided to dip our toes in the water around two specific goals.

Goals: Our first goal is to provide useful information to nonprofit communicators who often lack the resources they need to gain access to the news media and journalists looking for stories 'off the beaten path.' Our second goal is to create a forum to let people know about the culminating event in our annual calendar: Making Media Connections, June 7-8, 2006, on the campus of Columbia College Chicago in the south Loop community.

This blog is inspired by four members of the smarter sex: Christine Cupaiuolo, formerly the blogger at Msmusings.net and now with poppolitics.com, Barb Iverson, Columbia College resident expert on blogging, Tracy Van Slyke, publisher of In These Times magazine (this was her idea), and Marnie Webb, whose own blog on nonprofits and technology based at CompuMentor and TechSoup is a pacesetter for nonprofits online (if you run your mouse over the links in the blogroll to the right, you get a brief description of their blogs).