Social Media: How could it work for your organization? - December 2010

1. Social Media: How could it work for your organization? Fiona MacCool, CLEONet Project Manager www.cleonet.ca December, 2010

3. Social Media: What is it? Social Media is people using tools (like blogs & video) and sites (like Facebook & Twitter) to share content and have conversations online. Source: Primal Media http://www.slideshare.net/PrimalMedia

4. Where is all this social networking happening?

8. Facebook Usage: How does Canada compare? Source: Nick Burcher, July 2010 http://www.nickburcher.com/2010/07/interactive-facebook-usage-map-from.html Source: http://www.checkfacebook.com/

15. RSS to Email bulletins with Social Media Integration

20. What are community legal clinics doing? Keewaytinok Native Legal Services (Facebook Page) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Keewaytinok-Native-Legal-Services/193595124668 Community Advocacy & Legal Centre in Belleville (Employment blog, Twitter feed, Webinars) www.communitylegalcentre.ca/ Mississauga Community Legal Services (Facebook Page) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mississauga-Community-Legal-Services/108363122515953 ISAC Social Assistance Review (Blog, Rss-to-email alerts) http://sareview.ca

21. What are other orgs doing? (access to justice) Ontario Ministry of Labour – takes questions from the public http://www.facebook.com/OntarioMinistryofLabour Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Blog, RSS, Facebook, Twitter) http://www.policyalternatives.ca Ontario Human Rights Commission (Facebook, Twitter) http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toronto-ON/Ontario-Human-Rights-Commission http://twitter.com/#!/OntHumanRights Canadian Council for Refugees (Twitter feed, Facebook groups, YouTube videos) http://twitter.com/ccrweb http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Council-for-Refugees-Conseil-canadien-pour-les-refugies/99199928930 http://www.youtube.com/user/ccrwebvideos

22. What are other orgs doing? (PLEI) Éducaloi (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) http://www.facebook.com/educaloi http://twitter.com/educaloi http://www.youtube.com/user/educaloi Justice Education Society of BC (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter) http://www.youtube.com/JusticeEducationBC http://www.facebook.com/JusticeEducation http://twitter.com/JusticeEd ClickLaw (BC) (Facebook, Twitter, Blog) http://www.facebook.com/clicklaw http://twitter.com/clicklaw http://blog.clicklaw.bc.ca/ OCASI Settlement.org (Blogs, Twitter, YouTube) http://ocasitech.moresettlement.org/http://twitter.com/Settlement_Org http://www.youtube.com/user/settlementorg

23. For more information Social Networking in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature=channel Social Media Revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8 Social Media for Non Profits http://www.slideshare.net/PrimalMedia/social-media-non-profits To blog or not to blog? Tips for non-profits http://commonknow.typepad.com/blog/blogging/

24. Selected Social Media Articles Why the Legal Profession needs to use Social Media http://kevin.lexblog.com/2010/03/articles/social-media-1/why-leaders-in-legal-profession-have-to-enter-the-social-media-waters/ Social Media Suggestions for Lawyers http://lawyerist.com/maximizing-social-media/ http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/kennedy-mighell-report/2010/03/social-media-common-sense/ Facebook and Your Privacy http://virtualmarketingofficer.com/2010/03/fear-of-facebook-part-ii-how-to-use-facebook-privacy-settings/ http://www.llrx.com/features/geolocation.htm http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/saving_face/ Facebook Pages Best Practices http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/03/31/5-things-that-dont-work-on-facebook-pages-and-5-that-do/ Monitoring Social Media Presence http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/03/11/roundup-social-media-monitoring-tools/ Managing Information Overload http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/03/10/6-ways-to-stop-the-social-media-madness/ http://mashable.com/2010/04/15/reduce-social-media-distractions/