SLDN Week in Review: January 16-20, 2012
January 16-20, 2012
SLDN Announces National Search for New Executive Director. This week, SLDN announced the planned departure of Aubrey Sarvis, who has led the organization for more than four years. A national search was launched for a new Executive Director via a designated search committee of the board accompanied by the professional recruitment services of McCormack & Associates. To view the news release, click here.
Twentieth Annual National Dinner Details Announced. On Thursday, SLDN announced the first details of the upcoming Twentieth Annual National Dinner, including MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts as emcee. In addition, the dinner will serve as the kickoff for a year-long celebration of SLDN's twentieth year of service. To view Thursday's news release, click here. More dinner developments will be announced soon, including the recipient of the prestigious Randy Shilts Visibility Award. Last year's recipient was Lady Gaga.
Launch of Online Toolkit for Veterans Continues to Generate Interest. Last week's launch of an online toolkit to help LGBT veterans who are seeking to upgrade or change their discharge paperwork continues to generate interest in the media and blogosphere. Here's a particularly great piece from The New Civil Rights Movement that takes a look back at SLDN's early adoption of technology as a way of reaching LGBT service members. Click here for the story. To go directly to the toolkit, click here.
Help SLDN Grown Its Social Networks. SLDN continues to add new "likes" to our Facebook page and new "followers" on Twitter daily, and there's an easy way you can help us build this increasingly important piece of our communications operation. If you're on Facebook, please ask your friends to "like" our page. If you're on Twitter, please retweet us often and ask your followers to also follow SLDN. We'll be adding Google+ to our social networking portfolio soon! Be on the lookout.
01-20-12 By Zeke Stokes, SLDN Communications Director |
