Netroots Foundation

You can’t make everything go viral. We both know that. You’re boss doesn’t though.

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post focuses on a session led by the self-proclaimed hacks from Upworthy. In this session they’ll teach attendees how to win on the social web, thereby growing traffic on their own sites and making their bosses understand that what they do matters, and that while they aren’t magicians, they got the skills to pay the bills.

Do you wish you could make that killer graphic you envisioned? Are you jealous of your friends who are proficient with Adobe Creative Suite? Do you feel like the internet is a giant pool of visually appealing content, but you’re stuck on deck because you don’t know the tools?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post explores a session designed for everyone that answered “yes” to one of the above questions. This session is for anyone who is looking to gain basic design skills to enhance their (or their organization’s) online presence.

Did you know there are cheat codes that can help you win the internet?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post focuses on a session designed to teach attendees how to game the two big bad bosses of the internet—Google and Facebook—and position content to win.

We understand the importance of data-driven work in organizing, but how do we properly understand the data to be driven by them?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. This post focuses on a session designed to teach attendees techniques for visualizing and tabling data so they can properly understand what they’ve done, what they’re doing and where to go, as well as to show open source software that can do it all.

“Micro” and “nano” targeting were all the rage in 2012 as campaigns learned to use data to target messages to high-value audiences more effectively than ever before.

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post focuses on a session designed to help attendees learn how to develop high-impact Facebook content and use Facebook’s tools to target and deliver the content to the people organizations need to succeed.

Your headline is the entry point from Facebook—where everyone is—to your site—where not everyone is. But do you know how to write headlines that will make people actually click on them from Facebook and go to your actual website?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today we’re focusing on a session designed to help you perfect your headlines and subject lines.