I’m teaching Social Media 101 – Interested?

Hey Gang,

I am teaching a college class on Social Media this year. It’s an intro class for people to get started on using Social Media to promote themselves and their non profits or businesses. If you’re interested in taking the class I am teaching it in the business school over at ACC here in Austin.

Click here to check out and register for the class. Scroll down and look for BUSX 3003.

Here is what you will be learning:

Course Description: Instruction in terminology, theory and application behind the current trend of Social Media. Will cover aspects of Social Media usage in Marketing, Business, Non Profits, Job Seeking, Public Relations, Advertising and maintaining/enhancing social connections.

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of PC Use, Web Usage, Including Orientation to Windows, or equivalent experience.

Objectives: Every student will be able to:

• Create an Online Profile

• Identify parts of the screen on Social Networks

• Identify eight (plus) key Social Media Applications and Networks

• Use Help on these Social Networks

• Fill out an online profile

• Navigate in selected Social Networks

• Upload photos/videos/graphics

• Discover theories behind various social networks/social media apps

• Determine appropriate usages of various social networks/social media apps

• Apply appropriate usages of those networks/apps

• Explore the usage of those network/apps and the world around them

Rationale: Social Media is one of the largest growing fields of information dissemination in our world today. This class will form the building blocks students need to apply Social Media to marketing themselves, their businesses or simply understanding the world wide communication revolution that is Social Media.

Interested? Know someone who might be? Help me spread the word!

THANK YOU WEEK – Volunteer Web Site Policy

A lot of non profits are torn on this..torn like an old sweater.

Do you let your volunteers and fans run their own Web Sites? Do you not? Do you make them register? Do they have to sign in blood? Can they use the logo? A variant of your logo?

Over at the American Cancer Society we debated all these things (well not the last one) and decided that once some of our legal team retired ; -) it would be a good thing to do. So here is the policy I came up with for my six states around Volunteer Web Sites. Enjoy and modify as you need it.

Just make sure to credit me and the Blog when you can!

Volunteer Web Site Policy

Are you a member of NTEN?

NTEN is the Non Profit Technology Education Network. NTEN is also the membership organization for nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes.  NTEN is a community of peers who share technology solutions across the sector and support each other’s work. They enable our members to embrace advances in technology through knowledge sharing, trainings, research and industry analysis.

Basically NTEN helps you do your job better, so you can make the world a better place.

I am a member! Are you?

New Name and a New Blog – Your Help is needed!

Hey faithful readers of this Blog!
The time is come that I need your help. You helped make this blog great and now is your chance to help even more! I have decided to stop blogging here and create a new blog where I can be a bit more free about my opinions on social media, tech, the future of non profits and fundraising. I still work at the American Cancer Society and Lights. Camera. Help. but I want something that fits me a little better as far as my Blog.

That’s where you can help. Can you help me think of a new name for my blog and new URL? Just leave your suggestion in the comments below. Every person who does will win a prize. The contest starts now and runs till next Monday.

So let me know your thoughts!