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Six Social Media Week Events to Check Out

Care2

Social Media Week is happening in DC this week. The Secret Sauce to Social Media Fundraising: DC’s Give to the Max Day Story. Category: Social & Environmental Change. In social media, this event generated over 8,000 tweets using the #give2max hashtag and daylong trending in the Washington region.

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Social Media and Health Care (at SxSW)

Forum One

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. Regulations. Security and patient privacy.

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Goverment and Social Media: Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input

Forum One

I was invited to present last week at the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab's workshop on Government and Social Media. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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New on SSIR: Effects of Joining the Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

. —– It’s not a surprise to any of us that social media is changing the way our organizations work, not just communicate. The lessons in social media are especially important for organizations working with the public, whether it’s public service or opinion.

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Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input

Forum One

I was invited to present last week at the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab's workshop on Government and Social Media. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. Here is a nice summary of the event.

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Guest Post by Michael Hoffman: Viral Video for Nonprofits - A Rethinking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of our biggest viral video hits was this video for the Maryland State Teachers Association. Tags: vlog. You are better off identifying and speaking more directly to the audience who is most likely to already care about your core issues. It only has about 2000 views. How can it be considered a viral hit?

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Viral Video for Nonprofits - A Rethinking

See3

One of our biggest viral video hits was this video for the Maryland State Teachers Association. Tags: Video youtube see3 social media advocacy. You are better off identifying and speaking more directly to the audience who is most likely to already care about your core issues. It only has about 2000 views.

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