We believe that everyone who's interested should know how to use social media tools to connect to people around shared interests and concerns. 

We are especially interested in helping local non-profits, community organization, and people working in their community to be able to use blogging, twitter, facebook, youtube and other tools if they wish to.

We also know Oakland Local can be a great outreach tool for local organizations, and for regional organizations in the Bay area.

Oakland Local will be holding community coffees and brownbags for partners regularly to help organizations build capacity in using our site and the social web.

If you are a partner and want to find out about the next brown bag, or would like more info, contact Susan at susan at oaklandlocal dot com.

If you're interested in working with us to teach community groups in your neighborhood how to blog and/or use social media, we're open...give Kwan a shout, kwan at Oakland Local dot com and let us know who you are and what your ideas are about working together.

Upcoming trainings:

WATCH FOR MARCH 2010 EVENTS

First week in February: Open training for all Oakland Local readers & members who would like to learn more about using OL, blogging, Facebook and twitter to share their message and/or promote their small business. Location to be announced soon.

January 19, 12 Noon: Brown-Bag training downtown for Oakland Local partner organizations: Learn more about blogging on Oakland Local, using our calendar & tools for outreach and using Facebook, twitter, and blogs to get the word out.  Must be an OL partner to attend--contact Susan for more info (susan@oaklandlocal.com)

NOTE: If you can put together a group of 15 people who are small-business people, community organizers, work for non-profits, Oakland Local will come and help train your group in using social media tools--send us an email if this interests you.