Remove Map Remove Offline Remove Platform Remove Voice
article thumbnail

Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

Social media posts and account maintenance We’ve noted that organizations should guard their voice online. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform. Have the intern map the steps involved so your team can review at a bird’s eye view.

article thumbnail

Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

Social media posts and account maintenance We’ve noted that organizations should guard their voice online. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform. Have the intern map the steps involved so your team can review at a bird’s eye view.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? HSUS - integrated it with everything else, email campaigns/newsletters, offline, etc. even one voice can give you great insight.

article thumbnail

New on SSIR: Global Tools for Going Local

Amy Sample Ward

Global use of social media is also a great way to amplify voices, ideas, and stories. The power of using social media in a local context focuses most directly on just those things that make “local&# different: being “here,&# connecting online and offline, taking action collectively and delivering services.

Local 143
article thumbnail

Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content.

Disaster 206
article thumbnail

New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

article thumbnail

Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. You can make friends and call them into action, but those actions and real engagement will link to and live outside of the platform. Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform.

Green 102