Are you covering a greater geographic area but still need to meet with people to get work done? Want free and easy tools that can make your virtual meetings more effective? This session will cover: Tips for better teleconferences, Easy and awesome virtual meeting tools and How to make your case for using virtual meeting tools at work.

Julie Swanson, Tobacco Control Resource Center for Wisconsin

This session focuses on how to assess your community leaders and lawmakers on their opinion about the problem with tobacco use and the solutions, i.e. the most effective ways to reduce use of tobacco. Learn tactics to work with your community and how to build a long term successful working relationships with key leaders. Sprinkled with real stories this session will enthuse you to spring into useful action!

Maureen Busalacchi, SmokeFree Wisconsin

Law enforcement is an important partners in smoke free implementation. This workshop will explore the challenges surrounding enforcement and share strategies to reach out and engage this unique audience.

Kyle Pfister, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Program & Erich Pitcher, SmokeFree Wisconsin

This interactive workshop will give you an opportunity to learn how we're getting to know Wisconsin's 18-24 year olds and what their experience and exposure to tobacco has been. Learn about the Wisconsin 18-24 Year Old Projects informal survey and results to date. Work with the Project team to brainstorm ways to prevent Big Tobacco from successfully sampling their smokeless products in your community. You will leave this workshop with a better understanding of how to begin conversations with local officials about product sampling policies and engage young adults in a statewide network.

Vanessa Llanas, American Lung Association

Find out how social networking is being used to communicate, collaborate and engage colleagues and communities. Tools include: Facebook, Twitter and blogs. This session will cover: Tips for getting started using social networking, Hands on practice and Make your Case: How to talk to supervisors and IT about using social networking for work.

Julie Swanson, Tobacco Control Resource Center for Wisconsin & Erich Pitcher, SmokeFree Wisconsin

It's always a good idea to incorporate program evaluation into your community interventions, but there is no better time than when resources get tightened. Participants in this session will be able to incorporate simple evaluation strategies into existing efforts that can help determine their ROI (return on investment) and demonstrate their worth to community members and policymakers.

Lynn Hrabik, Tobacco Control Resource Center for Wisconsin & Randy Glysch, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Program

Disparate populations have not benefitted as much from existing efforts to reduce the prevalence of smoking. This has led to search for more effective ways to reach and engage these populations in efforts of tobacco control and prevention. This breakout session will present lessons learned about tailoring approaches from Wisconsin projects in the forefront of reaching out to disparate populations. Following very brief presentations there will be a dialogue among the presenters and audience to derive commonalities that might guide efforts to reach and engage yet other disparate populations.

Marva Brooks, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Program & Bruce Christiansen, PhD, UW-Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention

It's popular, it's powerful and it's easy. Anyone can create a short (1-2 minute) video and share it online. This session will show you how! You will decide a topic, film a video, use simple editing tools and share your video online. The session will include a discussion on how you can Make Your Case: How to talk to supervisors and IT about using video for work.

Chris Franson, Tobacco Control Resource Center for Wisconsin

You may be familiar with tobacco cessation programs such as: WiNTiP (Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project), First Breath and Not On Tobacco (N-O-T). Attend this session to learn how these programs have expanded to reach populations in need. Discover how you can develop one or all of these programs in your own community to help disparate populations quit smoking or using other tobacco products.

David Macmaster, WiNTiP; Hillary Whitehorse, First Breath; Carrie Smith King, N-O-T Facilitator

Local communities may want to take action to improve parts of the statewide smoke-free air law. This workshop will review model language, discuss strategies to advance this policy, and help clarify risks and roles in taking local action. Come prepared to ask questions and fix some of those holes in the statewide smoke-free air law!

Erich Pitcher, SmokeFree Wisconsin & Kyle Pfister, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Program

Discover how to gain vital earned media skills and familiarize yourself with key smoke-free air implementation messages. You will also learn how to craft your own messages and effectively communicate them in your community. This session will increase your comfort level in dealing with your local media—which will be critically important as the implementation of Wisconsin's Smoke-Free law gets closer.

Spencer Straub, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Program & Allison Miller, American Cancer Society

Technology tools can save you time and make it easy to collaborate with colleagues...no matter where they are. See how Google Docs, EtherPad and Google sites are making our work easier, better, faster (and more fun). This session includes: a demonstration of each tool, hands on practice time and Make your Case: How to talk to supervisors and IT about using collaboration tools for work.

Julie Swanson, Tobacco Resource Center for Wisconsin

Coalitions have been an effective way to create opportunities for social change around a specific issue. This skill based workshop will assist you to build your coalition around smoke-free or tobacco-free policies by creating action linked interventions to recruit new and maintain a diverse number of members to support your cause.

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Young people, armed with knowledge can succeed at getting decision-makers, from school principals to their state elected officials, to respond to their ideas for policy change. Before this can happen, youth need a place to sit at the decision making table. Hear firsthand accounts of how young FACTivists have successfully unlocked this potential through positive youth/adult partnerships and how to put the passion of youth in your community into action.

Luke Witkowski, FACT Field Guru; Amanda Krentz, FACT Field Swami; and FACT Youth Members

Communities have been bombarded with the marketing of new OTP (other tobacco products) at their stores and community events. Participants in this session will be able to implement strategies to monitor new products and marketing, and to assess their local policy options.

Lynn Hrabik, Tobacco Control Resource Center for Wisconsin & Maureen Busalacchi, SmokeFree Wisconsin