Workshops
Workshops are subject to change.
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Package Your Message for High Impact |
Learn a 7 step process to package your content for high impact. Gain tools and a solid foundation to shorten your prep time, increase your value, and position your organization for high growth. (more ») |
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Changing Society, Changing Media |
Martin Marty, Moderator Barbara Bradley Hagerty, panelist |
Panel Discussion |
Finding Your Marketing Sweet Spot: A hedgehog, a sock, and the path to communications enlightenment online |
Learn how to rise above your competition and attain standout status with marketing savvy. (more ») |
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Tools for Communicating in Multi-Religious America |
This workshop will explore a broad range of tools produced by the Pluralism Project that can aid in the effective communication of our multi-religious reality. (more ») |
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Social Networking and Congregations |
All the data points to social networking as the primary way in which people communicate and enhance their communities. This workshop will discuss how congregations can build community online and overcome stumbling blocks based on the consulting work of the Center for Congregations. |
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When Religion Meets New Media |
This workshop will explore the challenges faced by religious groups when they encounter new forms of media. What factors play a key role in decision making and negotiation with new media? (more ») |
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Religion in the News Media: Going, going gone? |
How do communicators effectively reach religion reporters now that many U.S. daily newspapers have cut their religion sections and in some cases, their religion reporters — while technology and economics transform the industry. (more ») |
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Words Can Move Mountains: Successfully Communicating Advocacy Issues |
This workshop will discuss the importance of communications in garnering publicity and support, building the political will for advocacy issues, and proven ways of using communications to successfully engage people in public policy advocacy around important social issues. |
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Communicating Religion in the Evolving Environment of New Media and Changing Society |
This workshop will look ahead to the next 10 years and examine the evolution and the emerging understanding of religion in the fast changing globalized and diasporic (multi-local) society and the challenges to communicate faith and religion. |
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Religion, Media, and Masculinity |
There has been a great deal of talk recently about a so-called “crisis of masculinity.” Men’s roles as fathers, as citizens, and as community leaders have been hotly debated... Most of these voices assume that religion is a positive force in shaping men’s identities, and “the media” are a negative force. (more ») |
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Media Reform and the Religious Community |
Whoever controls the media controls the message. Don’t just be satisfied with the media you’ve got, but demand the media that you deserve. Media reform is a grassroots movement to ensure that the media is accessible to diverse constituencies. |
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Join the Coalition: Media Justice is Social Justice |
“So We Might See” is a new interfaith coalition on media reform. Come hear about the coalition’s web-based campaign and learn how your faith tradition can join the movement for grassroots media reform. |
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Virtual or Real: Faith in the Second Life Community |
David Louder |
TBA |
Communication for Peace: How Digital Technologies can Enhance Empathy and Dialogue |
This workshop will explore ways that digital communication tools can contribute to peace building by enhancing our ability to empathize with each other more deeply, map conflict areas, or refocus dialogues around facts. (more ») |
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Social Media Marketing |
Go beyond tactics and buzz words to talk about real conversations — with real people and in real life — for companies and organizations in the changing media landscape. |
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Gender, Media and Social Change: A case study of the Global Media Monitoring Project |
The workshop will discuss the gender dimensions of media through a review of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the longest-running widely participatory research on selected indicators of gender in news media worldwide. (more ») |
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Communication Rights and the Millennium Development Goals |
Communication lies at the heart of change. Living together in peace, advancing sustainable development, harnessing today’s technologies for good, and living one’s faith all demand communication that creates community, strengthens participation, increases freedoms, develops cultures, and is a voice for justice. |
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Video in a Web 2.0 World |
Video is making a huge impact in the world of Web 2.0. This workshop explores inexpensive ways to harness web video. We examine basic video production and post-production techniques, editing software recommendations, and uploading tips. (more ») |
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The Key to Successful News Articles Starts Before You Even Write a Word |
This workshop touches on the actual writing of the article, but the majority of the information is about the pre-writing and how paying attention to that can mean the difference in just getting the job done and true success. (more ») |
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Cultural Diversity and Communication — A Panel Presentation |
Jim McDonnell, Moderator |
One of the most difficult contemporary debates is about “social cohesion” and “cultural diversity,” the integration of different cultural and religious groups into an increasingly pluralistic society in which it seems harder than ever to find common ground and values. What are the responsibilities of religious communicators within this context? (more ») |
Helping Kids Mind the Media in Faith Communities |
Sister Rose will present and explore the strategy of “media mindfulness” - a method of engaging the media and popular culture through the eyes of faith and responsible citizenship in a globalized world. (more ») |
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In the Spotlight: Media Interviews for Religion Communicators |
TBA |
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Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications |
This will be a highly experiential workshop that looks at where the next iteration of the Internet is headed and include an open dialogue on the impact of these emerging technologies, their theological underpinnings and how church communicators should use them effectively, if at all. (more ») |
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Raising Kids in a 24/7 Digital Media World: The Role of Faith Groups |
This interactive, multi-media presentation will include an overview of what young people are really doing with media as well as the challenges and opportunities kids’ media use pose for parents and faith communities. (more ») |
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Global Media, Global Religion: Research on Popular Media and the Remaking of Religions |
As we move further into the 21st Century, the media are playing an ever more important role in religion and spirituality. The issue is larger than how religion is covered by journalism, or how religions are represented in television and films, as important as those things are. (more ») |
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Peace and Justice Journalism: Covering Faith in Action Regionally and Modeling Media Responsibility |
TBA |
