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  • Tuesday, January 17, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – How to Build Your Social Media Fan Base

    Join Boston Park Advocates for the third Capacity Building Workshop in the 2011-12 series! On January 17th Derek Lumpkins from Discover Roxbury & Lauren Patrick from the Boston Parks Department will lead a workshop on How to build your Social Media Fan Base (facebook & twitter). Find out how to build your fan base, how to keep them engaged, and how often you should be communicating with them! Socializing and pizza at 5:30; workshop starts promptly at 6:00pm. RSVP: Ivett@bostonparks.org or 617-442-4141. The event will take place at BNAN offices, 62 Summer Street, 2nd Floor, in downtown Boston.

  • National Garden Clubs News

    Nancy Peck, over at Garden Club Salon, alerted us to a new website created by the National Garden Clubs.  The Garden Club of the Back Bay, Inc. is a National Garden Clubs member.  On the Welcome Page, the NGS explains: ” With nearly 200,000 members across the U.S. and internationally (6300 local clubs, 50 state clubs, a National Capital Area Club plus international affiliates), National Garden Clubs and its membership have a lot of expertise, anecdotes, tips and ideas to share. The largest nonprofit volunteer organization of its type in the world, NGC works to promote civic and environmental responsibility as well as a love of gardening and floral design.  The idea behind this blog is to share the latest NGC news and press releases, trends and tips as well as relevant news items from online news media and gardening blogs. Your comments, photos and ideas are invited!”  Log on at http://nationalgardenclubnews.blogspot.com.  You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter as well, which says a lot about the changing demographics of Garden Club members, we believe.

  • Garden Club of the Back Bay Now on Facebook

    We’re getting pretty tech savvy here, or at least we think we are.  The Garden Club of the Back Bay now has a Facebook page, and all you have to do to access it is log on to www.facebook.com, and search “Garden Club of the Back Bay.”  This is just another way we’ll try to communicate, not just with our members but with the community at large.  We can promote our events, meetings, wreath sales, grants, plantings and prunings, and our accomplishments in general.  If you are already on Facebook, do become a fan.  If you’re not, it’s easy (and free) to join.

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  • Chase Community Giving – The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts

    Chase Community Giving is giving away $5 million, and you can help decide which 200 local charities receive donations.  The winning charity will receive $250,000, four runners-up receive $100,000 each, and 195 others will receive $20,000.  One of the not for profit organizations in contention is the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. Voting ends July 12, and winners will be announced July 13.    Access voting on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/

    The first Chase Community Giving program, held earlier this year, was the most popular corporate philanthropy “crowdsourcing ” campaign of its type. More than 2 million users on the Facebook platform became fans of the program and helped decide which of more than 500,000 charities should receive a share of $5 million. More than 100 winners from 31 states were selected. Chase Community Giving is back again – and improved. The number of charities eligible to receive awards has doubled and several new tools have been introduced.

    Once on the Chase Community Giving Page, search “Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts” and five organizations will come up, with addresses in Sudbury, West Roxbury, Taunton, and Ipswich, as well as the main umbrella organization located in Wellesley Hills.   There is no cost involved in voting, and as a member of The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, the Garden Club of the Back Bay hopes to do its part and spread the word.  Unfortunately, the Federation’s own web site has no information on the contest, but you heard it here first!

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  • Saturday, June 26, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Santa’s Friends Have a Green Thumb Garden Tour

    On Saturday, June 26, from 9 – 5, the Sea Spray Garden Club will sponsor a tour of eleven gardens in Salisbury, Massachusetts, for the benefit of Santa’s Helpers and the Amesbury Holiday Program.  Both charities serves over 750 families last year.  One of the featured gardens appeared in the May 2009 issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine.  At the conclusion of the self guided tour at 5 pm, there will be an art auction, also to benefit the two charities.  Admission is $25, there will be plants available for purchase, and for further information, contact Doug Morris at breadman25@verizon.net, or call 978-948-8181.  You can follow the Sea Spray Garden Club on Facebook, key word Sea Spray Garden Club.

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  • Tuesday, November 24, 1:00 – 2:30 pm – E.O. Wilson: Darwin and the Frontiers of Evolution

    On Tuesday, November 24, beginning at 1 pm (the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species) a panel of scientists led by E.O. Wilson and Everett Mendelsohn will discuss Darwin’s legacy and talk about the frontiers of evolutionary and molecular biology, hosted by the Reading Odyssey and the Darwin Facebook Project.  Sponsors include National Geographic, Citrix Online and their HiDef Conferencing Division, Campaign Monitor, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Center for Science Education, Squarespace, Creation the Movie, and the New York Academy of Sciences.  The live lecture is free, although only 84 tickets remain as of today, so you may reserve your tickets at http://darwinlecture4.eventbrite.com.

    Now here’s even better news:  you may watch it as a free webcast (1,870 spaces), a teleconference if you are so set up (171 spaces), or a Skype pass (161 spaces).  The deadline for signing up is November 17 for the live lecture, and November 21 for the teleconference free pass or Skype free pass.  You may sign up for the webcast right up to the end on November 24.

    You may know E.O. Wilson as perhaps the most famous ant researcher of modern times, and the mentor of gardening guru Roger Swain.  This event will be a truly special and stimulating celebration of Darwin.