Comments on: Social Media In The Service of Civic Engagement http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/09/social-media-in-the-service-of-civic-engagement/ Thoughts for leaders where new media meets public life. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gouwerijn http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/09/social-media-in-the-service-of-civic-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Gouwerijn Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:03:55 +0000 http://blog.bradrourke.com/?p=1211#comment-262 interesting ... and food for thought... i find getting in the stream of social things difficult... great read! interesting … and food for thought… i find getting in the stream of social things difficult… great read!

]]> By: Joseph Peters http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/09/social-media-in-the-service-of-civic-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Joseph Peters Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:53:12 +0000 http://blog.bradrourke.com/?p=1211#comment-261 Brad - great recap. I thought we had some fantastic participation and input from the group. A couple of elements that i thought were important and I would like to emphasize are the issue of assessment and leadership. On the assessment part of choosing social media, I really liked the discussion that took place. There needs to be a discussion on who you need to reach and what you would like to achieve once you reach them is so important, before the tool or approach is considered. The other part of the equation is leadership. Regardless of the intended participant, there is an opportunity to teach and provide guidance, e.g. providing a one page overview of how twitter works, might get people to use it that haven't before. It was a great session and look forward to further collaboration with you Brad! Joe Brad – great recap. I thought we had some fantastic participation and input from the group. A couple of elements that i thought were important and I would like to emphasize are the issue of assessment and leadership. On the assessment part of choosing social media, I really liked the discussion that took place. There needs to be a discussion on who you need to reach and what you would like to achieve once you reach them is so important, before the tool or approach is considered. The other part of the equation is leadership. Regardless of the intended participant, there is an opportunity to teach and provide guidance, e.g. providing a one page overview of how twitter works, might get people to use it that haven’t before.

It was a great session and look forward to further collaboration with you Brad!

Joe

]]> By: Kristina Podnar http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/09/social-media-in-the-service-of-civic-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Kristina Podnar Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:50:58 +0000 http://blog.bradrourke.com/?p=1211#comment-260 What a great piece - thanks for putting it out there. I think it is a rather daunting task trying to answer these questions, but think you have established a good platform for doing so. Simply being able to come up with the list, which by the way, reflects a lot of my experience, is already a significant accomplishment. What I think your are pointing to in all categories and all of your questions is where do you draw the fine line between having social media be useful, being engaged, and simply having/generating noise. Don't know the answer myself, but am searching for several currently with a number of clients - they all have a different threshold and the line is significantly moving on a day-to-day basis in the public sector. What a great piece – thanks for putting it out there. I think it is a rather daunting task trying to answer these questions, but think you have established a good platform for doing so. Simply being able to come up with the list, which by the way, reflects a lot of my experience, is already a significant accomplishment. What I think your are pointing to in all categories and all of your questions is where do you draw the fine line between having social media be useful, being engaged, and simply having/generating noise. Don’t know the answer myself, but am searching for several currently with a number of clients – they all have a different threshold and the line is significantly moving on a day-to-day basis in the public sector.

]]> By: Starr Hoffman http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/09/social-media-in-the-service-of-civic-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Starr Hoffman Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:43:39 +0000 http://blog.bradrourke.com/?p=1211#comment-259 Really enjoyed the session--the scenarios were challenging but effective means of getting us to think in practical terms about both the potential benefits and problems of using technologies in certain situations. I didn't expect the conversation that began at our table, about how to find the time to learn these technologies, and what their purpose might be for us in our own professional lives, but it was a good conversation. Even led to discussion with a colleague at my own institution about how we might work together to create a Facebook page for one of her class's projects! Huzzah. Really enjoyed the session–the scenarios were challenging but effective means of getting us to think in practical terms about both the potential benefits and problems of using technologies in certain situations.

I didn’t expect the conversation that began at our table, about how to find the time to learn these technologies, and what their purpose might be for us in our own professional lives, but it was a good conversation. Even led to discussion with a colleague at my own institution about how we might work together to create a Facebook page for one of her class’s projects! Huzzah.

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