By Michael Ippolito
WILPF US National Communications Coordinator

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Technology Training Call Dates:  June 10th & 17th
 
These calls are always on Mondays at 8 pm EST, 5 pm PST. You can register by clicking here.

These trainings usually take place one to three times a month on Mondays. Once you are registered you will regularly get the reminders 24 hours & 2 hours before each call. Also keep an eye on the monthly eNews for upcoming dates, or find them at the registration page.

The trainings can be customized to cover what you, personally, are looking to get out of them.  You are encouraged to please email Michael@TeamGood.org in advance about what you would like to get out of the trainings or to simply say you will be on the call. Depending on how many people come to the calls, we try to have more trainers and create groups that are leveled to create the best learning experience for you.

There are typically 2-3 trainers on these calls. Each training usually goes 20-25 minutes, so on just one training call you will have the opportunity to take part in as many as four different trainings. If you prefer, you can stay in one training for the duration of the call. We work to customize the trainings for the people who attend them and to focus on the needs of the participants.

Topics covered include (but are not limited to) the following: Using Facebook & Twitter as well as a technology called Slack, the Maestro call interface (social webinar), and general technology questions. WILPF US also has accounts on Pintrest and MediaRevolt.org which we will be glad to show you how to utilize.

Any questions about the trainings, technology in general, or the other social media platforms, please email michael@teamgood.org and/or fellow WILPFer julie@teamgood.org. Julie is one of the regular trainers on these calls. 

Participate in the Weekly WILPF Twitter Wednesdays!

Also offered are fun weekly actions on Wednesdays where you get to meet & casually talk with other WILPFers.You are invited to participate in these weekly Twitter Wednesdays. Upcoming dates: June 5, 12, 19, & 26

Each Wednesday for the last year and a half, WILPFers from around the country have been gathering at 7 pm EST & 4 pm PST to amplify the messages of WILPF US while getting to know one another on our weekly Twitter calls. You can register for the calls by clicking here.

If you do not have a Twitter account we will help you create one on the spot! Once you have a Twitter account, the process is very easy. As many WILPFers who have participated in the actions have remarked, “The environment is a lot like stuffing envelopes around a table.”

We welcome branches that are working on specific issues or national issue committees to message Michael@TeamGood.org if you’d like us to plan having your issue be what we Tweet about in a future Twitter call. This will provide you with the opportunity to invite your branch members or issue committee members to join us to further magnify the message.

Each person that joins the call and tweets with us means thousands more people will see our content on social media. This is due to each tweet reaching on average thirty people. We tweet out at least two hundred tweets in a night and sometimes as many as three hundred! This means that up to nine thousand people will see our message per each WILPFer on the call! So when we have twenty people on these calls, we can accumulate as many as one hundred thousand people seeing our content.
 
Help WILPF US amplify our messages by joining the Wednesday Twitter calls!

You don’t have to come every week and it is OK if you can only stay for a portion of the call.

These calls are also an excellent opportunity for inviting family and friends to join in an easy and fun action.

Please consider these calls as a tool for recruiting in addition to magnifying the message of the important issues you are all working on as part of WILPF US.