Deanna Zandt

Media Technologist |

Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Berrett-Koehler, June 2010). She is a consultant to key progressive media and advocacy organizations, and her clients have included The Ford Foundation, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, and Jim Hightower’s Hightower Lowdown. She is a Research Fellow at the Center for Social Media at American University. Zandt specializes in social media, is a leading expert in women and technology, and is a frequent guest on CNN International, BBC Radio, Fox News and more.

Presentations from Facing Race 2012

Using Social Media to Connect Communities and Make an Impact--and Measure It!

This introductory workshop will run the gamut from the culture and politics of social media, to strategies necessary to starting a socialmedia campaign. There will be a heavy focus on understanding the metrics and analytics to keep you on track and measure your success. We'll assume abasic understanding of tools like Facebook and Twitter, and will focus on how to incorporate new tools into participants' work. This crash course willprove that you don?t need a full-on communications staff to start taking advantage of these social media tools today.

Speakers: Deanna Zandt

From the Trenches: Stories on Race, Dating and Love

We talk about the way race impacts almost every part of our life, but one place where it is always scary to talk about race is in our intimate personal lives. It's one thing to recognize how race plays out in politics, culture and policy, but another in who we date, love and sometimes marry. Join us, as we share a series of stories from a variety of folks that are funny, scary, sad and awesome about the intersection of love and race.

Speakers: Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Deanna Zandt, Jamia Wilson