I’m speaking at the Texas Leadership Institute. Would you like to go?

Back by popular demand! Mark your calendars for a great Texas Leadership Institute seminar about how to use this new way of marketing to promote your community, your destination, or your non-profit organization.  This seminar will be held on November 17th at the LCRA Riverside Conference Center in Bastrop.

** This seminar will be hands-on and very interactive.  Please bring your laptops and apply what you’re learning on site!

Topics include:

• An introduction to social media – what it is and how to use it
• Facebook, Twitter, & Blogs: Tools to Try
• Live web site critiques
• Social media case studies/best practices

1.       how non-profits can use social media to create awareness, attract volunteers, and raise money

2.       how cities and towns can use social media to engage and inform residents

3.       how tourism organizations can use social media to market a destination

Our four great speakers include Carla Pendergraft with the Waco Convention & Visitors Bureau and  Carla Pendergraft Associates; David Neff with the American Cancer Society and New Media Marketing; Will Hampton from the City of Round Rock; and Sarah Page with LCRA’s Colorado River Trail.

The seminar is only $99 and includes a tasty lunch and dessert.  To register for course # 1382 online, please click here and follow the prompts.

Planet Cancer + LAF?

Have you heard? Check out this post and video from one of my favorite Non Profits. What do you think of the move? Good or Bad? Let us know.

Planet Cancer and Lance Armstrong Foundation Make it Official: We’re Teaming Up to Serve Young Adults with Cancer

The Lance Armstrong Foundation is increasing their commitment to the cause of young adult cancer, and they’ve invited Planet Cancer to officially join the LAF team and start running our programs on a global scale. All your favorite Planet Cancer programs will still be around, we’ll just be running them from a different address. More important, with the power of LIVESTRONG backing us up, we’ll be supercharged and able to reach even wider, redoubling our efforts to find every young adult diagnosed with cancer and to spread the word in the medical community about the unique needs and issues of young adults.

Come support my new Non Profit

As many of you know I have started my own non profit here in Austin with some amazing people. It’s called Lights. Camera.Help and is the world’s first non profit film festival. As of this week we have started selling our Film Passes for the event. Please check out more below. We would love you support!

Lights. Camera. Help. is a new nonprofit in Austin, Texas and it’s bringing you the first world wide film festival only for nonprofit and cause-driven organizations.

On July 31st and August 1st at 7pm, Lights. Camera. Help. will screen the best of the over 130 documentaries, PSAs, shorts and feature length films submitted to the festival.

By donating around $15.00 for this limited time offer Film Pass you will get to come to two nights of film screenings plus gets into our VIP wrap party on Sunday where we will announce the winner of our “judges prize”.

Only 40 of these passes are going on sale so grab yours today!

Our screening locations are:

July 31st – 7-10pm – Southwest Key East Austin Community Center – Screening

http://www.swkey.org/Contact_Us.html

August 1st – 7-10pm – UT CAL 100 – Screening

http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/cal.html

August 2nd – 8-midnight – The New Movement Theatre – Wrap Party

http://newmovementtheater.com/about/

One lucky organization that’s the subject of our “judges prize” will receive all the proceeds from the festival. Thanks for helping us support all the non profits that entered and donate for your ticket today!

I'm Homeless in Austin,TX : The Final Video

So this weekend I got a chance to be homeless for 48 hours and be guided around by my street shepard Alan Graham of Mobile Loaves and Fishes. The only piece of tech I tool along was my flip camera. Here is what I recorded. The video is rough and raw and their is no soundtrack. But I think that’s kinda the point of filming on the streets. Leave me your thoughts.

Read more at http://www.fispace.org/category/personal-change/