National Right to Life Convention and Social Networking:
the Message Meets the Medium

By Luis A. Zaffirini

At this year’s National Right to Life Convention in Pittsburgh June 24-26, one of our aims is to increase social networking literacy among grassroots leaders. There will be two workshops on this topic which has enormous potential. Hopefully each chapter will have at least one member attend.

One workshop will focus on the usefulness of online social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to the local pro-life chapter. The other will speak specifically to how to creatively use your online social networks to increase your group’s presence in the community and ability to raise money.

Over the years we have taken steps to more fully integrate the NRLC Convention and the Internet. This year we will be live-streaming several of the sessions on the Convention website www.nrlconvention.com. If you are not able to attend, this is the next best option.

There is also another wrinkle which will help convention attendees more fully enjoy their experience. It’s called Foursquare.com, a location-based online social networking site.

This means those with a smartphone—such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc.--can download the Foursquare application and can “check-in” at specific times and places during the Convention. When you check in, that information can be shared on your Facebook or Twitter accounts if you wish to share what you are doing at the NRLC Convention with your friends.

Participants to who check-in three times will be eligible to win a free ticket to the 2010 Closing Banquet or free registration to next year’s Convention in Jacksonville, Florida.

For more information about the convention, please go www.nrlconvention.com or call 202-378-8842. This three-day extravaganza is THE pro-life educational event of the year.

The 2010 Convention is sure to educate, motivate, and excite you.