Lauren Cochrane is an experienced social media and online community management geek girl who lives in Canberra and works for an Australian non-profit organisation. She’s a vibrant, positive person who seeks to connect with others similarly interested in social media for non-profits and technology in general. Lauren understands Web 2.0 and how the web can be leveraged to build communities and tribes to rally behind causes where traditional marketing and campaigning no longer work.

• project management
• social media
• community management
• online copywriting
• graphic design
• digital media planning and buying
• web design
• technical support

Diploma of eJournalism

Central Queensland University

• Microsoft Office
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Illustrator
• CiviCRM
• WordPress
• MODx
• XHTML
• CSS

Finalist Your Big Year (2010)

Member Golden Key International Honour Society

Winner Brisbane Internet Games (1999)

Organiser TEDxCanberra

Unorganiser BarcampCanberra

Exploring the different platforms – Website Redesign: Managing and Working with Social Media (2009)
Provided an overview of the main social media platforms: Facebook, Myspace, Linked In, Twitter, etc; appealing to all generational groups; redesigning websites to incorporate Web 2.0; juggling the maintenance of various streams.

Charitwy – BarcampCanberra (2009)
Answered the question – are Australian non-profits good twitizens?

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy recently interviewed me for the new digitalbusiness.gov.au website: