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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media.

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Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

NTEN

The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. This was one of our most interactive webinars - it was filled with community organizers, after all - the Twitter stream and chat channel were delightfully out of control! Check out the event Storify Praan put together. Leave a comment below!

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Best Tips to Rock your Online Presence

Care2

Create a content calendar for the month including the target publish date, channel (Website, Facebook, Twitter, etc) topic or related initiative, call-to-action, and the staff person responsible for producing each piece of content for the month. Checklists or How-to Tutorial. test different images, ad copy, and targeting. Did You Know?

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy. You're It!

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If this isn't enough, she'll be giving away three free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading for trainers. For me, it is better to show people the important concepts and principles, and then link to how-to steps for self-paced tutorials. It takes practice to master tech steps. . The Topics.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's where I learned about a Twitter hashtag called #2amt - a channel for theatre artistic professionals to discuss their craft and trade and support one another. They were able to join the discussion in our Twitter channel. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network.

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Social Media Is About Engagement With A Purpose and How To Measure It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But KD Paine has been saying this for years, and illustrating the ladder of engagement in terms of relationships using the slide above. Here’s an excellent step-by-step tutorial on how to use these features from Social Media Examiner. Are you using engagement on social media channels with a purpose?

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