Thursday, April 7, 2011

EPIC team and the Blog 2.0







A chance meeting with Katie Kowaloff at EPIC (http://iamepic.org), some quick grant writing, and abracadabra our own EPIC team, or “Team Awesome”: a band professionals from various advertising agencies, freelancers, and academics. Joined with 100BMC's "Team Execute" on a mentee teaching and promotional project. Eight weeks after “Hello, my name is….”, emails, calls, meetings, photos, videos, copy writing, editing, disagreements, more meetings, and emails, we had a "show and tell" at the EPIC rally with 2 other non-profits teams. Our presentation, is the 100BMC Blog 2.0 network (www.100blackmenchicago.org). A professional public facing portal for our mentoring blog, plus RSS feeds linking together our Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and iContact accounts. The results speak for themselves: Thanks to: Team Awesome:


Monica Klasa: Creative director/designer


Zulema Orozco: Designer


Brad Tippet: web designer/programmer


Gary Rozanc: web designer/programmer


Amie Dowker: Planner


John Kwoka: Director


Gus Gavino: Editor


Tricia Scholl: digital producer


Eralee Rivera: IA


Enrique Orozco, Lihmin Yuan: Grips at the shoot


Team Execute:


David Day, Kenol Thomas, Michon Ellis, Jeff Reid, Aaron Travis, Phillip Powell, Rodney McGee, Dwayne Dixon, Reggie McLin, Delacy Peters, myself, plus the mentees


A special thanks to both Monica for all her hard work, and to the EPIC organization for this opportunity.

1 comment:

Tutor Mentor Connections said...

EPIC hosted a workshop at the November 2010 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference. We're planning the next conference for May 19 and 20 at Victory Apostolic Church in Matteson. I hope you'll send a team to do a workshop showing how your program benefited from working with EPIC and how other mentoring programs might duplicate this. See http://www.tutormentorconference.org for details.