About UC
Urban Conversations is a consultancy based in Birmingham, Alabama that works with non profit organizations and government agencies to determine how best to use social media tools as part of their outreach efforts, providing additional ways for them to engage the communities that they serve.
Services provided by UC include:
- Developing and implementing comprehensive social media strategies for your community or organization.
- Implementation of social media as part of an interactive economic restructuring or promotional strategy for your community
- Conducting workshops on effective use of popular social media tools (including best practices)
- Enabling use of social media tools in public outreach efforts – helping you to listen as well as share information
- Website development and management
- Consultations to determine what type of social media presence (if any) is necessary.
The Urban Conversations website takes a look at the worlds of economic development, urban revitalization and social media, particularly at how these worlds are beginning to collide in imaginative and creative ways. We’ll take a look at how people are using social media to make their cities better and more engaging while hoping to stoke the fire of conversation to see if we can’t add to the list.
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About André Natta
André Natta, CMSM, is the principal of Urban Conversations. He’s a native New Yorker (The Bronx) who originally thought his life would be spent behind a drafting table, leading to him study architectural history and architecture at The Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. He received his Certification in Main Street™ Management from the National Trust Main Street Center in 2008 and has previously worked as a Programs Assistant for Marketing at the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority and as Senior Main Street Coordinator at Main Street Birmingham in Birmingham, AL, where he makes his home with his girlfriend and two cats.
André currently serves on the Jefferson County Historical Commission as a city appointee and serves as a co-chair of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce‘s Young Professional Roundtable (a networking opportunity for YP organizations he helped found in 2006). He is also a founder of WordCamp Birmingham, Birmingham’s edition of the unconference for users of the popular web publishing software, held annually in late September and is a member of the 2009 class of Leadership UAB. He operates a hyperlocal site about Birmingham, AL named The Terminal.
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