1. Blogs, Tweets, and Friends:
Effective Mentoring in the Age of Social Media
Thursday, September 27, 2012
9:30 am – 3:00 pm
Agenda
9:00 am
Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Networking
9:30 am
Welcome, Overview, Introductions
10:00 am
Basic uses, strategies, policies
Basic use of social media programs and sites
Promoting programs through social media sites
Safety and policy issues for mentoring relationships in social media
10:45 am
Activity: Strategies and Policies
11:15 am BREAK
11:30 am
Communication
Use of social media in the mentoring relationship
How use of social media affects development
Real world examples of how mentor programs successfully use social media
Mentor support
12:00 pm
Summing up the morning’s discussions
12:15 pm LUNCH
1:15 pm
Youth panel
2:00 pm (tentative)
Activity:
Successes and challenges in matches
2:30 pm
Lessons learned/next steps
2:50 pm