Announcing the opening of our New York, WiredRockies, and San Francisco offices!

• Webinar schedule:Join one and become an expert!
• Meet the new staff! Come to our DC Happy Hour July 10th
• Come to our SF office opening on July 13, 5:00, at the SF Nonprofit Tech Center
• NYC training and Happy Hour on July 26th. Stay tuned for details!
• Peer Learning: Demystifying Fair Use, July 26th

Be a DIA Guru

• This month, Chelsea helps us with donations reports in Salsa
• Salsa Documentation, hot off the presses
• The god of small gifts: the importance of small donor fundraising
• A full menu of tips and tricks
• Digital Storytelling Tips in the Age of YouTube
  

Meet the Staff

Previously a member of the DIA Board of Directors, Jeffrey Fisher, Director of Community Development, joined the DIA staff in the summer of 2007 to oversee a growing outreach program, further develop member training and orientation, and to help members leverage the effects of the entire DIA network to build a stronger progressive movement. He will also be establishing a strategy program that will include seminars and best practices/case study documents for online activism, organizing, and communications. Jeff has two main passions: teaching and organizing. For the previous four years, he taught philosophy and religious studies at Bethany College. Prior to that, Jeff did consulting in online content strategy, information architecture, and interaction design for a variety of clients, including the Illinois State Board of Education and the American Hospital Association, as well as a variety of Fortune 500, start-up, and non-profit clients during a stint at Scient. A pioneer of online community and activism, Jeff did online community development and editorial work for VoxCap.com, one of the first providers of tools for online activism, and IntellectualCapital.com, a pan-partisan political e-zine. On the activist front, Jeff's background is in union organizing, both during his time in graduate school and in Chicago, where he was co-chair of the National Writers Union-Chicago. Jeff received his BA from Bethany College and his PhD (in Medieval Studies) from Yale University.

Sarah Osmer DiMattina, Asst. Director of Member Services, has 7+ years experience in the non profit and web technology sectors. She made her start as a Political Organizer for NARAL Ohio where she first fell in love with online advocacy. Sarah has also worked as a Community Outreach manager for a literacy organization as well as the Assistant Director of a domestic violence agency, where she oversaw fundraising, event planning and outreach. Also passionate about writing/design/web technology, Sarah has worked in graphic design and web management, and prior to DIA was a web manager in the interactive division of a publishing company. Sarah holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and two cats.

Tyler Gregg, Application Developer, began his software development career in 1999 during the heady days of dot-com madness, but tries not to be too bitter about it. He honed his legendary Java skills at a number of small DC tech companies, some of which are even still in business today. DIA is his first experience on the non-profit side of things. A Birmingham, AL native, Tyler has a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and no discernable Southern accent.

Carrie Staton, Intern, is a senior at Bethany College in West Virginia where she is studying nonprofit administration. Originally from a small coal town in southern West Virginia, Carrie first got involved in activism through the Raze movement, a statewide and teen-led anti-tobacco movement. Since then, she has worked with several nonprofit organizations, including Energy Express, a summer reading program for children in rural and low-income communities. After graduating from Bethany this spring, she hopes to earn a master's degree in public administration and to enter the nonprofit world as a grant writer.

Join the Staff

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Around the DIA Community

• Take a moment to urge your Representative to vote for the Afghan Freedom and Security Support Act of 2007.
• Make sure that the full House of Representatives follows the leadership of the Subcommittee. The House will be taking up the Energy and Water Appropriations next week.
• Send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper to help spread the message that the price of UN peacekeeping is far less than the tragic human and financial costs of war and that the U.S. should honor its commitments to UN peacekeeping!
• Join CODEPINK in DC this summer for their Peace Surge: 2 months of week-long activist trainings with daily actions in Congress!
• This year's G8 host, Germany, proposed a declaration to limit global warming to a 2-degree Celsius increase; all participating heads of state agreed, except President George Bush. Apologize on behalf of our nation to the other G8 leaders for Bush's behavior.
• The Center for Progressive Leadership is looking for top, emerging leaders to fill its 2007 Political Leaders Fellowships in Arizona, Michigan, and Colorado. The Fellowship is designed for individuals pursuing a variety of positions and levels of political leadership, including those who want to run for office, manage campaigns and lead advocacy and progressive organizations. Fellows participate in intensive skills and leadership training, including weekend training workshops, one-on-one coaching, political networking, and mentorship