Resources from amyrsward

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Dave follows up David Wilcox's piece about his work in Portugal, with commentary about his own project in Stockholm.

reminder that we are still connecting with real human beings.

Discussing ROI for social media use - things you can measure vs those you can't.

“It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it’s on MySpace or sending instant messages,” said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study, “Living and Learning With New Media.” “But their participation is giving them the technological skills and literacy they need to succeed in the contemporary world. They’re learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a home page.”

Good blog post reminder about appropriate tool for task, but inappropriate for those working on it.

Here is an example of a workshop game and a handout I have used when teaching nonprofits about building social media strategies (focusing on goals and people before tools).

This blog post has the graphic and explanation from Brian Solis about the conversation prism (the charted social technologies by funcation).

NTEN and the nonprofit technology community lead by Beth Kanter and others have built a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world.