Introduction to Media List Building Trainings (also called GMT & Media Database Trainings) are held Bi-Weekly by Nina Schwartz. These trainings are free online webinars for GMT members who would like to use the media contact database. Attending a training of this type is required for media database access. Current users are welcome to attend this session as a refresher course in the basics of the system.
This one hour training will review how to:
1. Effectively run quick searches for media contacts and outlets by name.
2. Run an advanced search that will find reporters who will message to your target audience.
3. Know all of your options for refining & editing lists.
4. Correctly save and find lists.
5. Send your news.
Tuesday, August 16
1:00- 2:10 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 - 11:10 a.m. Pacific
Wednesday, August 30
1:00- 2:10 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 - 11:10 a.m. Pacific
To Register:
1. Go to the Green Media Toolshed Webex online training center at https://greenmediatoolshed.webex.com/
2. Make sure you are in the Training section (note: not Meeting section).
3. Select to view the list of "Upcoming Trainings."
4. Find the training date of your preference.
5. Click on the Register link on the right hand side of the screen.
6. Complete the registration page.
7. Note your attendee ID number. You will need this when signing into the training.
**You must register online to get an attendee ID number. If you have trouble with these above steps, please call Nina at (202) 659 7710 x10 for assistance.
Contact Nina with any additional questions on the training or membership, at (202) 659- 7710 x10 nina@greenmediatoolshed.org.
This is the sixth and final document of our six-part Best Practices Series. This document is titled Monitoring and Tracking Distributions. It contains tips for follow-up steps after you have sent a distribution in the Media Database.
If you have suggestions, questions or other tips contact Zach at 202-659-7710 x13 or zach@greenmediatoolshed.org
04-28-2011
This is the fifth document of our six-week Best Practices Series. This document is titled Sending Distributions - Email and Fax Communications. It contains tips for saving your lists and finding list you and other colleagues have created.
If you have suggestions, questions or other tips contact Zach at 202-659-7710 x13 or zach@greenmediatoolshed.org
04-08-2011
Dear GMT members:
GMT is completing a website upgrade to the Drupal 6 platform that will enhance security and provide the needed routine updates to the core website platform. The upgraded website will launch live on Friday, April 15th.
The launch schedule will include a 24 hour content freeze on the GMT website, and an overnight downtime on the evening of April 14th when the upgrades are applied to the live site.
The content freeze will start at 6 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday April 13th and will continue through the business day on Thursday.
- The content freeze includes the GMT member center and any press or campaign room that your organization runs through GMT. You cannot add any content on your press or campaign room at this time.
The GMT member center and all press and campaign rooms will go down at 6 p.m. Eastern on Thursday April 14th for the upgrade process and will be live and upgraded at 9 a.m. on Friday.
- The GMT website will therefore be unavailable from 6 p.m. Eastern on Thursday April 14th through 9 a.m. on Friday April 15th.
- This includes the main site, www.greenmediatoolshed.org.
- Press and campaign room sites will also be unavailable during this time.
- If you have questions about the specific timeframe for this downtime, please contact me.
If you or someone from your organization needs access to the media database during this scheduled downtime to send a distribution, we can provide that for you.
- Although the media database will be unavailable through the GMT site during this time, we can give members who need access a login through a backup portal.
- Our site upgrade will not impact any lists, saved searches, activity histories, scheduled distributions, or other information you have stored in the media database.
Please look forward to a few more messages from us in the coming weeks. If you are a press or campaign room owner we will send you additional details on subsite feature upgrades.
If you have any questions, please reach me at (202) 659-7710 x10 or nina@greenmediatoolshed.org.
Sincerely,
Nina Schwartz
Membership Coordinator
202-659-7710 x10
nina@greenmediatoolshed.org
Skype: nina.m.schwartz
Follow GMT on Twitter: @theGMT
This is the fourth document of our six-week Best Practices Series. This document is titled Saving and Locating Lists. It contains tips for saving your lists and finding list you and other colleagues have created.
If you have suggestions, questions or other tips contact Zach at 202-659-7710 x13 or zach@greenmediatoolshed.org
2-10-2011
This is the third installment in our six-week Best Practices series. This video goes over steps and tips for exporting lists. You can click the video to see a larger version.
If you have suggestions, questions or other tips contact Zach at 202-659-7710 x13 or zach@greenmediatoolshed.org
03-04-2011