ML912 • Social Media Symposium
NeighborWorks Training Institute
Chicago, IL • Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 8:30am – 4:00pm
“If the last 100 years was about gaining efficiency and innovation through scale and tight control of resources and communications,
the next 100 will be about finding more fluid, open models of collaboration and cooperation.”
— Joshua-Michele Ross,
“Why Business Needs to Get Social” Forbes.com
Join us live on Twitter or our blog!
Social Media Resources
Lovette Ajayi, Marketing Coordinator, Community Media Workshop
Kim Brumber, Executive Director, NeighborWorks Rochester
Monica Garreton Chavez, Technology & Communications Coordinator, Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Charles Lenchner, Director of Online Organizing, Working Families Party
Demetrio Maguigad, New Media Manager, Community Media Workshop
Justin Massa, Executive Director, movesmart.org
Angela Siefer, Founder and Chancellor, Shiny Door
William Traynor, Executive Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks
Farra Trompeter, VP, Client Relationships & Strategy, Big Duck
Join us at the symposium remotely on Twitter or our live blog!
Twitter
Social media tools like Twitter allow conference participants to join an online dialogue before, during and after the event. We encourage you to try it! Just follow these simple steps:
- Sign up for Twitter. It just takes a minute.
- 2) Follow neighborworks
- You can text your tweets directly from your mobile phone by going to Devices under Settings and adding your mobile phone.
- Include the hashtag #nti in your tweets.
Even if you don’t sign up for Twitter, you can still follow the dialogue by going to http://search.twitter.com/ and entering #nti. Using this hashtag will bring up the real time tweets related to the social media symposium.
Live blog
NeighborWorksÒ has enlisted a couple of crafty folks to live blog from some of the symposium sessions. For the first time, those who can not attend the symposium will be able to follow the key highlights and discussion from the event. Just check the Social Media Symposium Blog next Wednesday to follow along.
8:30am
– 8:45 ›› Welcome
8:45 – 9:15 ›› New Media, New World: What's It All About?
9:15 – 10:15 ›› Introduction to Social Media Strategy
10:15 – 10:30 ›› Break
10:30 – 11:30 ›› Break Out Sessions: Part I
- Community Engagement 2.0
- Online Communications
- Overseeing Your Organization's Social Media Strategy
- Digital Media & Youth (Department of Justice Weed and Seed Program Youth Participants)
11:30 – 1:00 ›› Luncheon: Best Practices in Social Media
1:15 – 2:45 ›› Break Out Sessions: Part II
- Community Engagement 2.0
- Online Communications
- Overseeing Your Organization's Social Media Strategy
2:45 – 3:00 ›› Break
3:00 – 4:00 ›› Closing Session & Wrap Up
*Don't miss the raffle for the Flip Video Camera!
Presented by NeighborWorks® America.
Symposium cost: $215 (includes materials, plenary session, workshops and keynote luncheon) Additional costs for clinics.
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