Dr. Stephen L. Goldstein will be featured speaker at 2010 Florida Conference on Fundraising with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media

Dr. Stephen L. Goldstein will speak at the 2010 Florida Fundraising Conference: How to raise more money with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media. Visit www.socialmediafundraising.org for details and to register online or by mail.

Goldstein's presentation: "Social media and high tech fail without high touch: How to turn the 7 expectations of socia-media users into dollars!"

"My presentation closes the workshop to bring participants back to terra firma," Goldstein says. "I'm as excited about social media as anyone else, but I also know that people make sales not computer mouses. Social media venues are means to an end--engaging people to close 'the sale'--not ends in themselves. When web sites first became "the thing," people rushed to get online--and mistakenly thought that was all they had to do to create a successful effort. The same giddiness has accompanied social media venues, with the same discouraging results. It takes time, creativity, and commitment to use social media effectively. I share my take on the 7 ways to do that."

Columnist, author, consultant, TV and radio personality, and workshop leader--Dr. Stephen L. Goldstein is a nationally recognized marketing, communications, and fundraising executive, as well as a trends analyst and forecaster. For more than 30 years, he has developed strategies for nonprofit success.

Dr. Goldstein is now the co-producer and host of “The Forum for Nonprofits,” which airs and may be heard 24/7 at http://www.forumfornonprofits.com/. He was the producer and host of “Fundraising Success,” a weekly radio program on WXEL, 90.7FM/National Public Radio.

Dr. Goldstein's "Fundraising Guru" columns have appeared in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel and have been a regular feature of the Scripps papers on Florida’s Treasure Coast. He is the author of You Can't Go Wrong by Doing It Right: 50 Principles for Running a Successful Business and the bestseller, 30 Days to Successful Fundraising (http://www.amazon.com/).

His Self-Taught/Fundraising Success System is the basis for the workshops he offers around the country. Stephen Goldstein has also contributed fundraising advice segments for nonprofits on Wealth and Wisdom on WXEL-TV, Public Television. Dr. Goldstein works with individual nonprofits all across America to increase their fundraising success. His website is http://www.fundraisershotline.com/, and he is the author of the blog http://www.fundraisingguru.blogspot.com/ which is now available in Spanish at http://www.recaudaciondefondos.blogspot.com/. Dr. Goldstein earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. from Columbia University.