Announcing: The Social Media & Networking Challenge
Oct 27, 2009 Uncategorized
On November 5th I am giving a presentation to NASA MSFC – a primer and introduction to using social media and networking. As we start a major push toward using social media here, we want to make sure everyone is speaking the same language and is somewhat familiar with what it is and why we might use it.
At the end I will give a challenge for those who want to learn more and get some hands-on experience without diving into a deep, unknown world alone. The invitation is open to everyone.
This challenge consists of 7 weeks of learning starting on Monday, November 9th. Each week is a new topic. Each day I will post information and resources on the week’s topic with a ‘To Do’ at the end for everyone to try. The posts are designed to take a minimal amount of time while delivering the learning intended. Here is the schedule:
Week 1: Blogs
Week 2: RSS
Week 3: (Week of Thanksgiving, M-W only):Forums
Week 4: Wiki
Week 5: Facebook, Linkedin
Week 6: Twitter/Yammer
Week 7: (Week of Christmas, M,T only) Social Bookmarking
This could have been done internally to NASA, but I decided to open it up to everyone for a couple reasons. First, the more those participating can share this with family, friends and coworkers, the more personal it will be to them. The more personal, the more they will learn. It is kind of like a support system – if you share this challenge with any family/friends and they do it too, it will mean more to you as you go through the learning. Also, if there is someone who you feel should learn more, send them here (and we all have family and friends who SHOULD learn more!). Second, why not open this to anyone?
Many people understand and use some of the above already. Most don’t use all and don’t know why to use them. For example, you may read blogs, but not understand why YOU might write one, or why Twitter even exists. Feel free to join in on the weeks that will help you the most. HOWEVER, the feedback and perspectives from those who already use each of these would be very valuable.
More details to come…
October 27th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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October 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
This is very cool – thanks for doing this. So, all I do is read your posts every week? tell me more . . .
November 6th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I have not used any of the communication tools that Keven described in the Nov 5th Announcement presentation. But I can see several ways that once this goes NASA-wide could be a big asset for me in sharing knowledge and data with my counterparts at other NASA centers. We all have questions where one question will spark another related topic and open discussions provide great means for all to gain an understanding and useful consistant knowledge.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Are there tools already available at MSFC we can use to start our own little \communities\ or do we just use one of the external ones you’ve mentioned, like Ning?
November 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
It is not readily apparent to me as to how you are going to keep track of what each person does as regards to your challenge. Is this one of the \More details to come…\?
November 13th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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November 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Many of my co-workers are apprehensive about sharing information on a blog. I have been reading wordpress.com, but have not found a way to keep the entire blog private. Is that a possibility? I probably have overlooked the instructions.