NTEN Project: Week 1 - Module 1 - Are we there yet?

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On Monday, we started down the road to build Module 1: What is Social Media and Why It is Important To Nonprofits. 

If you have kids and have ever taken a long road trip, you've heard that question.  Sometimes a long trip feels like you'll never get there, but little by little you do.   So, my response to the question is HOOOHAA - meaning yes -we're almost there!

This week I started working on a new project with NTEN to help aggregate the many amazing social media resources out there and develop a social media training curriculum that anyone in the nonprofit sector can use. As Holly Ross says, "The best part is, we're making it happen in true Web 2.0 style. This is content truly created by and for our sector."  The community is the curriculum and we're working wikily and learning a lot as we travel down this road.    As Michele Martin and Dave Cormier point out, the process of community as curriculum means that the learning is always emerging.   

So, take a look at Module 1 and give us your feedback in the discussion tab.   There are a couple of small holes in the first module that would be great to fill -- in the resource section.  We need the short list of blogs or web sites that cover social media and nonprofits.  What ones would you add?