Next week is going to be a busy, busy week of work and travel and a little bit of a fun.
On Sunday, I'll be in Washington, DC for the Share Our Strength Conference of Leaders. I'll be going out on the Day of Service which will take place at two locations, the Capital Area Food Bank and Friendship Public Charter School. I'll be part of a social media capture team where we will use social media tools to document the work of 200 volunteers at both locations. I'm excited about doing this work along side folks like that the crack web and social media team at Share Our Strength and Ed Nicholson at Tyson.
The next day, I'll be leading a workshop on social media strategies and tools and we hope to share some of the documentation work as an example of how the tools work. The Day of Service event and session are sponsored by Tyson Foods.
On Tuesday, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks. What a combination!
Our session is on the social media metrics track and one of a few that are geared for nonprofit folks. I'll be taking about how to use ROI thinking to build a community for your blog. The session description:
Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community
If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success? Tips, tools and stories from the trenches from three people who focus on online engagement and have more links, friends and followers than some small countries have citizens.
I am also going to learn a lot by attending the sessions. I'm looking forward to hearing social media measurement gurus - KD Paine who session is earlier that day.
Next, I leave for Honolulu, Hawaii where I will be doing a session at the Social Media Club's workshop in conjunction with the wonderful PodCamp Hawaii. The workshop leaders include:
- Roxanne Darling, co-owner of Bare Feet Studios, host of award-winning Beach Walks with Rox and Hawaii’s new media expert
- Chris Heuer, the founder of Social Media Club and a digital marketing veteran with 14 years of experience online.
- Kristie Wells, a community evangelist, customer advocate and President of Social Media Club
Charlene Li, author of Groundswell, isn't going to be able to make it over to PodCamp Hawaii or Social Media Club Workshop Hawaii, but Chris Heuer had the pleasure of interviewing her. In this interview, he focused on items more relevant to businesses in Hawaii -- especially small businesses. I think a lot of what she says in the video is very applicable to nonprofits. Enjoy the video.
This is also going to be a nice little vacation for me and I'm bringing the family along too.
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