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LCH Business Media Joins Status Is Everything HIV Media Team

FEMWORKS — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:00:36 +0000

NEWARK, NJ, January 12, 2009 – LCH Business Media and Tech Solutions (LCH), a boutique web 2.0 campaign strategy and management firm based in Newark, NJ, announces that it has joined the Status Is Everything Media team. LCH has been retained by FEMWORKS, the Newark based multicultural marketing agency leading the creative and communications for Status Is Everything (SIE), Newark’s new HIV testing social marketing campaign that targets African American gay men. LCH will manage the social media for Status Is Everything, create viral and written conversations, engage and inform around HIV, Testing and Prevention. Status Is Everything is produced by the African American Office of Gay Concerns.

Campaign Objectives:
- Drive use of text message #36363 for instant access to local Newark Testing Centers
- Drive use of New Jersey HIV/STD hot line 1-866-HIV-CHECK
- Drive target community interaction and participation

Get Involved With Status Is Everything
Please join us online, upload PSAs to be featured on the Status Is Everything website – www.StatusIsEverything.org and join this much needed conversation.
Twitter: http://bit.ly/SIETwitter
Facebook: http://bit.ly/SIEFacebook
Causecast: http://bit.ly/SIECausecast
YouTube: http://bit.ly/SIEYouTube

About Status Is Everything (SIE)

SIE is an HIV Testing social marketing campaign produced by AAOGC.org it’s funded by New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services: Division of HIV/AIDS Services and the Centers for Disease Control

Status Is Everything is Newark based and aims to encourage African American men, particularly young men who have sex with men, to get HIV tested and reduce risky behaviors.

A respondent to the “Status Is Everything” campaign will be referred to one of three partnering local HIV testing centers in Newark; St. Michael’s, UMDNJ, and NJCRI. These site were selected by five focus groups of young African American gay men and offer confidential and convenient testing services.

SIE Offers 24 hour instant access to local Newark based testing center information through texting 36363 with NJ and your zip (NJ 07102). Callers to 1-866-HIV-CHECK are connected to New Jersey’s HIV/STD hotline, operated by UMDNJ Poison control center in Newark.

SIE integrated promotions include social media, text messaging, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, CauseCast.com, television commercials, buses wraps, bus interior and exterior signage, movie theater, light rail trains, billboards in downtown Newark, and StatusIsEverything.org.

About LCH Business Media and Tech Solutions (LCH)
LCH is a boutique social media firm based in Newark, NJ. that specializes in Web 2.0 Campaign Strategy and Management and Mobile Application Development

Media Contact: Kimberlee Williams, FEMWORKS, 973-494-9705.

Source: LCH Business Social Media & Tech Solutions

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Historic Event: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Commission Swearing In

FEMWORKS — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:41:56 +0000

Newark Mayor Cory Booker with swear in the city's first LGTIQ commision

The Historic Event Begins at 1:00PM in the City Council Chambers at City Hall – 920 Broad Street

Newark, NJ – Newark, NJ., October 28, 2009 – You are cordially invited to join Mayor Cory Booker and The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers, Room 215, Newark City Hall, 920 Broad Street, Newark, N.J. at 12:30 p.m.

The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:

Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright

Your presence at this event will be uniquely special for the members of the LGBTQ Advisory Commission members and Mayor Booker. Thanking you in advance for your support of the LGBTQ Advisory Commission and the City of Newark!

Source: Liberation In Truth Unity Fellowship Church

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Sept. 11 Join the FEMWORKS “Green The Block” Lunch Time Walking Tour of Lincoln Park

FEMWORKS — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:39:42 +0000

Newark Residents to Spend National Day of Service Improving Their Environment

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Newark, NJ – Newark, NJ – Today from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30p.m. Members of Newark’s Lincoln Park community will host the first annual GREEN THE BLOCK DAY, sponsored by FEMWORKS, Newark’s premier multicultural marketing agency and the company’s newest service ComeUnity Wire(SM), the go-to news source for all things Newark.

Neighborhood organizations and businesses have partnered with FEMWORKS to open their doors to visitors and perform community service projects. Newark enthusiasts can take a walking tour of Lincoln Park’s neighborhood landmarks. Guided by Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District staff, walking tour participants can follow along via the ComeUnity Wire Facebook fan page or via cell phone by registering to receive ComeUnity Wire text messages. Text messages will feature information about each tour location, highlighting Lincoln Park’s hidden gems and future developments.

“FEMWORKS has gone green. Now, we’re educating our neighbors to adopt energy efficient practices. This event will unite our community in a way that has never been done before in Newark; a City that is positioned to be a leader in the “green” movement,” explained Kimberlee S. Williams, FEMWORKS Principal, Marketing Director and developer of ComeUnity Wire. “GREEN THE BLOCK is a progressive step in taking back our community to make it a safer, cleaner and greener environment.”

GREEN THE BLOCK is part of a national campaign steered by the Hip Hop Caucus and Green for All that educates and mobilizes low-income communities and communities of color to ensure they have a voice and stake in the clean-energy economy. To RSVP for the tours visit ComeUnity Wire on facebook at http://bit.ly/3pVpKu. For more information, follow us on twitter @ComeUnityWire and @FEMWORKS or visit http://bit.ly/4bxgy.

Friday September 11th activity schedule
Lunch Time Walking Tour I: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Lunch Time Walking Tour II: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
The lunch time tours will include visits to City Without Walls Gallery, Newark School of the Arts, Brick City Urban Farms and a presentation from real estate development company Crawford Street Partners.

Trash pickup: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

ABOUT FEMWORKS

FEMWORKS is a multicultural marketing agency and photography studio based in Newark, NJ and the agency’s full service capabilities include marketing, public relations, photography, graphic design and web design. FEMWORKS is certified by New Jersey Commerce as a Minority and Women owned business and certified by the National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. For more information visit www.femworksllc.com or call 973-494-9705.

Media Contact: Kimberlee Williams, Principal, FEMWORKS, 973-494-9705 or kwilliams@femworksllc.com