about Jill

Why starting some wacky personal finance video was important.

I find & create opportunity to:

• develop content on blogs, microblogs, and provide live blogging services
• utilize & teach online social networks and platforms
• build purposeful conversation, community, & customer ‘listening posts’ for organizations and people they want to engage.

I gotta find her – now!

• twitter handle
• utterz handle
• LinkedIn
• instant message: foster5jcat (AIM)
• less instant: jillmfoster@gmail.com
• ring direct: 202.203.0255

Media features & contributions:

• On personal finance & marriage: featured in Washington Post’s front-page business section, joint interview with husband;
• On social media & nonprofits: quoted by Rad Campaign on approach & expectations to online social networks.
• On supporting DC’s special social media community (fun video excerpts & archives abound via these links here): co-hosted networking events with DC Media Makers, Shashi Bellamkonda with Network Solutions, Producer Jonny Goldstein, and marketing guru & author Rohit Bhargava.

And there’s more!
In the Washington, DC region, I help nonprofits, small businesses, & community outreach programs on making their online identity more visible, integrated, & conversational with their community.

What type of communities? Those invested in their success, their mission, their advocacy – like their clients, their volunteers, their sponsors, their students.

Regularly I teach basic online video production & other social media to advocacy groups which is a thrill. It’s gratifying to observe that moment when students and clients realize just how accessible (and fun) social media tools can be.

That’s when the creative empowerment begins … to emerge online communities, expand their funds of knowledge, & even their sphere of influence.

It’s a powerful time to be in social media.

Community involvement:

• DC Web Women, chair, steering committee
• DC Media Makers, co-founding member
• WomenWhoTech Telesummit, host committee, 2008
• 48 Hour Film Project, producer, 2007