Dee Dee Becker - President, Becker Communications

Rucks 2 Pucks 501c-3 discussion with Taylor.

Rucks 2 Pucks [https://rucks2pucks.com/] is a non-profit 501c3 charity where our mission is to help veterans and their families by promoting an active lifestyle through hockey. We promote the lifestyle to provide a sense of community and camaraderie, something veterans often lose once leaving the service. This is a key component in fighting veteran suicide and reducing the 22 a day. This podcast is an honor to present to you.

Abagail McKiernan of HelpLink

I had the distinct honor of sitting with this most amazing human being. Abagail McKiernan and I discussed the origins of HelpLink the 501-c3 charity that is redefining what it means to be a successful nonprofit by using their social media platform to connect people in need directly to resources and members in their community who are able to help in times of crisis. Bring your tissues for this one, It is heartwarming and inspiring to say the least. For more info:https://helplink.org/

PIPER WILSON COMMUNITY LEADER AND AMAZING PEOPLE PERSON

Please enjoy a wonderful conversation we had with the amazing Piper Wilson. We will talk about our foundational experience with community, current status, AI, and its role in social media. We will learn all sorts of fun and meaningful parts of her journey. And if we are lucky, we will find out why purple hair is the most fabulous color.

Jeri Hart of Jeri Designs

Jeri creates the world's most beautiful and unique hand-crafted custom guitar straps, incredible replica guitar straps and her own "off the rack" guitar strap line. Our top-of-the-line custom guitar straps are worn by today's most popular musicians, as well as favorite sports heroes, politicians. Checkout the site for more info Jeri Designs [https://www.jeridesigns.com/default.asp]

Dee Dee Becker - President, Becker Communications

Dee Dee is a parent of a Virginia Tech Hokie alum and serves as lead admin for the Virginia Tech Parents Facebook group and founder of University Parent Group Admins for community managers like her who run university parent groups. With 28K members, Virginia Tech Parents is the largest parent-only university parent group in the US. University Parent Group Admins has 672 members representing nearly 300 university parent groups across the US, UK, and Canada. With a background in marketing, PR, and crisis management, I helped manage multiple communities through several crises: an active shooter incident, the pandemic, student suicides, and more. Through these tragedies, Dee Dee saw the superpower of community come to life as her admin team and members came together to create meaningful impact on each other’s lives. It continuously stirs her passion for community management, bringing her back to it day after day. At the same time, she has authored several case studies and spoken about crisis management at Meta’s global headquarters. She is a Meta Certified Community Manager and was hired as a full-time contingent worker on Meta’s Community Management Team. For more than 15 years now, she has also managed online health communities for hospitals and health systems, crafting and telling the stories of healthcare heroes and other brands “doing good” for the communities they serve. Ask her about the time a Navy jet crashed in Virginia Beach (all survived), or when a hospital patient caused a shocking stir with a fake bomb threat and how she managed that active shooter incident she mentioned, as well as ongoing critical global health discussions in several official Meta-managed online communities.