Session at the 2009 ArtsSmarts eXchange How can the internet be used to document ArtsSmarts in your community? What are some of the tools that can promote collaboration and sharing? Moving beyond websites and eNewsletters, this session will provide a beginner's overview to the basics of social media such as blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. This is an introduction to some of the online tools that teachers, artists, students and ArtsSmarts partners can use to tell their ArtsSmarts story and engage the larger community.

1. Going Web 2.0 A Beginner’s Guide To Social Media

3. Idea generator

4. Get Your Feet Wet

5. Where Communications started

6. Where the internet Started

8. Web 1.0

9. WebsiteDonate Buttone-newsletter

10. Unidirectional

11. Web 2.0

12. What is Social Media Anyway?

13. Digital tools for discussing and sharing information between people

14. Social mix

15. Going social = Two Way

16. Social media isn’t a new thing.It’s a new way of doing very old things.

17. COnnecting

18. Keep this in mind If you want to do social media well

19. Listen Intently

20. Engage Authentically

21. Participate consistently

23. blogs

24. Good Blogs Tell a story Keep it short Use visuals and audio Authentic and natural Have personality Bottom up Update often

25. Twitter

26. Be a Top Notch Tweeter Have personality Build community Reply and re-tweet Follow everyone who follows you. Don’t only Tweet your own content Limit your Tweets to 5 per day, and no more than 6!

27. Facebook

28. Fan Page vs. Group

29. Be a Facebook Guru Use your organization’s logo as your picture Compelling conversations matter Love photos and video Integrate other applications Limit your status updates to one per day

30. Wikis

31. Multimedia

32. Multimedia opens the door to Co-creation Stories from the field Tagging and sharing