Blogs, wikis? Learn to use new internet-based tools
Register now for the Engage Your Community conference.
Engage Your Community: using blogs, YouTube, and other cool tools to achieve your group’s goals aims to help tangata whenua, community and voluntary organisations.
Experts and community group leaders who are currently using new internet-based tools will lead a series of practical workshops.
Sample topics:
- Set up a project website in 10 minutes flat
- Use the internet to cut costs and raise funds
- Use blogs to develop an online support community for clients
- Use Moodle as a virtual office
Venue and date
- Tuesday 22 April, 2008.
- Start at 8.30am; close at 5pm.
- Waikato Management School of the University of Waikato, Hamilton.
Register now
Register at: engageyourcommunity.eventbrite.com.
The registration fee includes admission to all workshops, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, and a conference bag.
Register before 15 March 2008 for $75; after that it’s $100. Bring another person from your organisation for $50 per person.
5 free registration scholarships
5 free registrations are available to groups who:
- agree to participate in a follow-up case study
- and / or have a low budget.
Apply before 1 March directly to Prof Ted Zorn.
Contact information
Contact: Prof Ted Zorn, Waikato Management School, chair of Waikato 2020 Communications Trust.
Office: 07 838-4776
E-mail: tzorn@mngt.waikato.ac.nz.
The conference is organised by Waikato 2020 Communications Trust.
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February 5, 2008 1 Comment
Propose a mini-conference workshop
Engage Your Community: Using Blogs, YouTube and other Cool Tools to achieve your group’s goals is a one-day conference on Tuesday 22 April 2008.
The conference, to be held in the Waikato Management School of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, will include a series of practical workshops led by experts and community group leaders who are currently using these tools.
Does that sound like you?
Submit a Workshop Proposal (50Kb Word file) for the Engage Your Community Mini conference. Download the linked file, complete it and return it by email to Prof Ted Zorn.
January 7, 2008 No Comments
Social networks are about people, not ideas
Katya Andresen reminds us in Four fundamental laws of social networking that social networks aren’t about causes, ideas, or some vague notion of bringing people together. Instead they are about allowing and helping people to find others with whom they share something:
Don’t build to a concept, build to people. People don’t look for a social network to join – they look for people like them. Networking technology is about NETWORKING – being amidst people like us – more than it’s about the tools or technology. So don’t build a network because you think you have a great concept – build a network because you have a real group of people that wants to spend time together, connecting.
…I’ll leave Ben with the last word, and it’s a good one: “Donors want a better giving experience, and social networking technology, properly used, can significantly improve this experience by making it more personal, by giving people a sense that they are a member of a community and not just a cash machine, and by enabling people to dramatically magnify their impact. …”
[Via Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog: Four fundamental laws of social networking.]
December 20, 2007 2 Comments
How bloggers can help you get the word out
Britt Bravo provides 10 useful and specific tips for getting bloggers to help you spread the word about your cause or issue in 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause:
if you want to do outreach to bloggers about an issue you care about, here are a few tips
These Tips will cost you time and energy — you need to work harder than just flinging out a press release to anyone with an email address. But the same could be said about any avenue for publicity. My favourite Tip:
Bonus tip: If they write about your cause, thank them and link back to them!
The post also contains some useful links to what others have done.
December 16, 2007 1 Comment
Techniques for moderating an Online Community
Laurel Papworth posts with specific techniques: Subgroups: Moderating an Online Community. Excellent reference material.
December 15, 2007 No Comments
