Finally Launched My Site Today-- Come Visit!

Today I finally launched natashadworkin.com. It's been a whole lot of work and also some fun, and I'm glad to finally have something online that I feel good about. I'm still working on getting my newest work added to the portfolio, as well as perfecting the RSS feed, but I felt it was so close to being complete that I could go ahead and tell people about it. As always, I'm interested in hearing your feedback. Comments, likes, dislikes, recommendations to make it stronger, is there anything you'd like to see there that isn't?

Take a look here. Feel free to use the comments forum on the site to leave feedback, or send me a message. Thanks!

{Inspired By} The New Communicators

The New Communicators

Today I'm inspired by The New Communicators, a three-day series of events created to share experiences and inspire discussion about how we communicate with others using both online and offline media. A friend introduced me by email to Erin Kurtz, a New Communicators founder, who helped produce the first installment of the event, which occurred in Portland last fall. After hearing a bit from him about what happened there, I'm dreaming of the next installment taking place in Seattle...  Here's a little of what Erin told me about The New Communicators and the concept behind it:


Practically everyday we come across stories of individuals and organizations outside of the traditional marketing and communications industry who have found ways to create conversations in an effective way by whatever means necessary. We're talking independent coffee roasters, bike frame builders, brewers, animators, restaurateurs, fine arts organizations, teachers and students. We wanted to simply provide a context, or a forum, for people to share their stories about how they communicate and connect with the world around them... The result was three days of events all around town where people gathered, discussed and inspired each other. No pedestals. No hierarchy. No gurus. Just people sharing with people.


Good stuff. There are resources on The New Communicators website for anyone interested in organizing a similar event. Whaddya say, Seattle?

Show & Tell: New and Improved LLTK Website Launches

LLTK (Long Live the Kings) is a Seattle-based non-profit salmon recovery organization for which I have provided strategic communications, graphic design, and writing/editing services for more than 5 years.

With an existing website that was tired, static, and unintuitive, LLTK wanted to create a new online presence that was informative, dynamic, easily-navigable, and that advanced not only the organization's strategic communications goals but also it's mission of restoring wild salmon and steelhead to the waters of the Pacific Northwest.

Working with LLTK's wildly talented webmaster, the aptly named Bill Masters, and contract web developer Evan Brown, I helped LLTK to build a new site that meets those objectives. The services I provided included: strategic planning, graphic design, copywriting/editing.

Take a look at the new and improved LLTK.org here.