Nov
14
2008
Where is the NGO 2.0 community?
Author: Robin BrowneSince entering the social media space I’ve been looking for a place where progressive Canadian, communicators share social media best practices. I have found tons of spaces where marketers are sharing what they know. They’re blogging and commenting others’ blogs, on organizing and presenting at conferences, holding geek dinners, Tweetups, and Webinars – and they’re producing and consuming each other’s podcasts.
With the economy in meltdown and organizations having to cut back – but still wanting and needing to communicate – social media offers great potential to target specific audiences for a lot less money than traditional media.
Beth Kanter’s blog, that highlights best practices of mostly US organizations, is a great resource but Canada is need of our own – partly because of special challenges we have like two official languages.
I don’t want to reinvent the wheel so I ask here: did I miss something? Does anyone know of an online social space (or an offline one like a conference for that matter) where progressive, Canadian social economy folks swap social media ideas?
