Like many other consultants, I spend a lot of time reading articles and blog posts from around the web. Here are some posts I found particularly interesting. This time about social media monitoring, digital story telling, better powerpoint presentations and social media budgets.
Last week I gave a presentation at the IFRC’s communications managers meeting about social media in general and how we should use it. Below you find the largest part of that presentation. I removed the bits that were focusing very much on internal processes and steps that need to be taken in-house in order to make social media work. (Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff can download the complete presentation from FedNet, the IFRC’s extranet.) I hope you like it.[...]
I recently had the honour to be in charge of a whole-day social media workshop in Solferino, where the idea for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement was born. This was part of our 150 year celebrations. It was really interesting because the 50 or so participants where from extremly different countries and backgrounds, as behooves an organization with 186 member countries. It was absolutely fascinating to see that how social media is just as interesting to someone from Belgium[...]
