Based on her social media experience with Kids With Food Allergies Foundation, a nonprofit online community, Lynda will share practical insights to help others who work in the nonprofit arena. She will share practical tips, explaining what has worked well for her. She will cover Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace experiences in her presentation.

Bio

Lynda Mitchell received her Master’s degree in Health Information Management with a certificate in Health Informatics from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. She has 20 years’ experience in hospital management, consulting, teaching at the college level and in conducting training sessions and educational seminars.

Her son, now a college student, developed multiple, severe food allergies as an infant. In 1998 she helped start the Parents of Food Allergic Kids online support group and in 2004 she founded the Kids With Food Allergies Foundation (KFA), a nonprofit online community, to better serve the growing needs of the many parents raising a child with food allergy who turn to the Internet for peer support and health information.  She was an early adopter using social networks for KFA including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace.

Mrs. Mitchell received her B.S. from Temple University (summa cum laude). She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband, a retired Naval officer, her son and her two Labrador Retrievers.

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