Services: What We Offer

Darim's Services

Darim Online is a full-service web strategy organization. We specialize in helping Jewish organizations develop and implement dynamic Internet tools (web sites, email communications and social media) to help you achieve your mission and goals.  Through our research and experience, we believe that good technology alone is necessary but not sufficient for achieving success, and thus we are dedicated to helping mature organizational strategies and cultures, and the skills and capacity of staff and volunteers to help make your vision come to life.  We currenty offer the following:

  • Announcing: Darim Online Boot Camps.  Our Boot Camps are a new program designed to provide more depth, breadth and systemic change for a cohort of Jewish organizations.  This 1-2 year program engages multiple staff and lay leaders from multple related organizations (e.g. all within a local region), for an inspiring, educational, and transformative course of study and guided action.  Boot Camps are often sponsored by a local foundation or Federation.   Email us to learn more and see if a Boot Camp is right for your community.
  • The Darim Online Learning Network for Synagogues is a professional development and knowledge sharing program for staff, volunteers and lay leadership of synagogues to learn about social media and web site tools, strategies and best practices.  We bring guest experts to present by webinar, as well as surface best practices and learn from each other's work.  Congregations that have a Darim-developed a web site are automatically members.  Others can sign up to be come a member of the Learning Network for just a few hundred dollars per year, which includes webinars and online resource bank access (all past webinars, policies, best practices, article, etc.) for all synagogue representatives. More info here.
  • The Darim Online Learning Network for Educators is a similar program for congregational educators working with middle or high school aged populations.  Through this Covenant Foundation funded program we are currently working with a cohort of teachers and directors of education from many schools around the country.  In this second year of the program, we will be opening our webinar series to all educators in Darim congregations (Directors of Education and teachers), and selecting a small number of fellows from this group to receive more intensive consulting, coaching and training for a particular project.   Please email us to learn more, register for the webinars, and receive information on the fellowship.
  • Our blog, JewPoint0.org offers knowledge, insight, book reviews, links to useful blogs, best practices and more.  Check it out and subscribe via RSS if you use a reader.
  • Consulting. Darim Online offers strategic and project based consulting to help you use social media effectively. Projects range from a comprehensive review of your web site with suggestions for improving your site, analysis of web stats, social media strategy planning, coaching on developing a presence on Facebook and more.  Given our experience with the tools and similar organizations, Darim can offer you valuable information and examples to help your staff or committee move forward.  We are able to save you both total time and elapsed time to reduce the hours invested in research and planning, and to get your new tools implemented and working for you quickly. Contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help.
  • Speaking Engagements. Darim staff frequently speak at local and national conferences and professional development events sponsored by Federations, local groups and others.  Contact us to discuss the needs and interests of your group.
  • Private Professional Development Webinars.  Darim frequently presents to groups via webinar to minimize travel time and costs, and to provide educational opportunities to geographically dispersed groups.  We have 60-90 minute presentations developed around many topics, including:
Social Media 101 E-newsletters
Facebook 101 Online Video
Facebook Groups, Pages and Causes Staffing Your Online Strategy
Wikis Blogging
Understanding Web Stats And More...

Please call us at 434.977.1170 or email us to discuss your interests and needs.

Darim's web site development program is currently on hiatus and we are not building new sites currently.  We do expect to be making an announcement in the spring of 2009 about the next steps of this program. Please sign up for our e-newsletter to be kept informed about these plans, and don't hesitate to get in touch with more specific questions.

Learning Network for Educators