Social reporting made simple (thanks Carl)

Carl Haggerty, who does terrific work in Devon County Council helping staff use social media for internal networking, is also promoting digital engagement in the  community.

He has just posted the neatest explanation I’ve seen of how to use social reporting of offline events to promote wider engagement (OK, I’m a little biased by the kind mention of this blog).

You can see a bigger image here. Carl explains: (read more...)

The delights of social reporting teamwork

I’ve just had an exhausting few days social reporting at the National Digital Inclusion Conference as you can see from this dashboard of activity … except it wasn’t exhausting at all. It was a delight.
That was in part because we had the luxury of a whole team of reporters including Dave Briggs, Clare White, Tim Davies and Michael Grimes, plus People’s Voice Media from Manchester doing interviews, and We Share Stuff from Birmingham running a version of their social media clinic. (read more...)

Is your event worth the price of the ticket?

The other day I was discussing social reporting and other online activities for a £300-ticket, two-day event with the organiser, and he said: “Next year we are going to have to make it free”.

It really brought home to me how much the way that events are organised and priced is being changed by two influences, at least in the social media field: first, people can organise their own events much more easily by using online tools like Facebook, Meetup and Eventbrite. Secondly, it is relatively easy to extend your event by a mix of blogging, Twittering, video-streaming and networking as I’ve described in posts here. (read more...)

How social reporters can help turn old-style conferences into the new convening spaces

I’m delighted to find there’s increasing interest in social reporting around events … which may start with an enquiry about how to capture some video interviews, but can lead to a discussion about how an organisation may network with its members, clients or customers.
Over the past year I’ve had a lot of fun using standard video cameras, mobile phones to stream video to the web, videoboos on a laptop, giving Flips to facilitators, and blogging before, at and after events. You’ll find a series of posts here.
Bev Trayner and I were fortunate to work together last year on a European community of practice and major event in Lisbon which gave us the chance to develop a first-draft socialreporting toolkit, which Bev offers for download here. There’s also a work-in-progress wiki here. (read more...)

Socialreporting an event – the inside story

The 2gether08 Festival of social innovation, media and general good stuff, held in London last month, gave me a terrific opportunity to try some concentrated social reporting, and learn what an extraordinary team effort and mix of tools it takes to make it work well.

I (read more...)