Social Media Tools
- Blogs use to publish information (ex. http://hip-eatmovelive.blogspot.com/)
- RSS (real simple syndication) use to keep up to date on blogs (ex. use a reader like Google Reader to follow blogs you're interested in)
- Micro-Blog use to get out quick updates to a mass audience (ex. http://www.twitter.com/)
- Photo sharing use to share photos with colleagues and/or find photos for documents or presentations (ex. http://www.flickr.com/, https://posterous.com/)
- Video sharing use to share video — spread excitement and model action (ex. http://www.youtube.com/, http://www.vimeo.com/)
- Social Networks provide an online community that connects you with other people (ex. http://www.facebook.com/)
Collaborative Communication Tools
- RSVP Tools provide easy, fast way to set up meetings (ex. http://www.meetingwizard.com/)
- Survey use to collect data in real time (ex. www.surveymonkey.com)
- Collaborative calendars, documents, wikis, and video chat make planning and editing collaborative and communication easier (ex. Google)
Julie pointed out that the Wiki's she spoke of are created with Google Sites- Google Sites can also be used to make a more standard-looking website for free. Here is the one that we use in Platteville:
ReplyDeletewww.swsaferoutes.org
(it is a work in progress- needs some more pictures :))
It is a free service and you can purchase a domain name (web address) separately for approximately $15/year (for example we masked our google sites address (https://sites.google.com/site/swsaferoutes/) with the domain name www.swsaferoutes.org). Feel free to contact me if you have any questions- I would love to assist! -Amy @ seebotha@uwplatt.edu (City of Platteville project)
Thanks, Karen and Amy! It is great to see so many (free or inexpensive) resources being used. We will use the info you share here to compile a list of current sites being used to support your community efforts.
ReplyDeleteThe Wood County blog Julie shared today can be found at http://woodcppw.blogspot.com/
Keep up the great work, everyone!
Jordan
Polk County uses Google Sites for NPA, our nutrition and physical activity coalition. View at www.polkNPAcoalition.org
ReplyDeleteYou'll see from our website that we also use other Google aps like...
- Google Calendar to post our meetings, events, trainings
- Google Groups to run the list-serves we set-up for each committee to keep the committee comunicating between meetings
- Google Docs is used right now only for our Executive Committee so we are all using the most up to date letterhead, coalition brochure, and other coalition materials. We hope to use this in other committees but need to convince people to start a Google account. It has been a slow learning curve for some people. (: