Your head is spinning and your plate is beyond full with Facebook, twitter, YouTube, flickr, Picasa, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and LinkedIn? Come prepared to dig in with Joel F. W. Price, web and information manager, Friends’ Central School. As with the use of any tool, you need a sense of how to harness the greatest potential from social media without hurting yourself or your institution. After you strategize, you can start connecting so that the tools start to work for you. What can you be doing to prepare your school for the changing landscape of social media?

1. Get Started, Then Keep Going! Joel F. W. Price | @jfwp Friends’ Central School Webmaster & Information Management Photo by Wayne K. Lin

2. Relevant and Creative Source: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/epic-fail-helmet-fail.jpg

3. Still Relevant, Still Creative Source: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/fail-owned-safety-glasses-fail.jpg

4. Also Relevant and Creative Source: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fail-owned-ladder-on-truck-fail.jpg

5. But Entirely Irresponsible! Source: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/epic-fail-parenting-fail.jpg

6. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgordon/992957779

7. A 1985 Instrument Mashup 

13. Google Analytics spikes/troughs based on “hotness” of topic “ stickiness” of visit to photo gallery how did they find you – searches, other sites, email?

15. Make A Small Change http://www.d3stores.com/perfectface/img/productImages/bumper_jpg.jpg

18. HTML  ( FBML ) RSS Feed  ( SocialRSS ) flickr pix  ( MyFlickr )

21. http://bit.ly/fcsgmap

27. Our First Official Foray

39. Recent Inspiration