Social Media Week: A Guide for Good

February 3, 2011

Social Media Week: A Guide for Good

Written by Amanda Lehner | 5:34 pm

Social Media Week kickoffs this Monday in nine cities across the globe (February 7 – 11 in New York, London, São Paulo, Toronto, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Istanbul, and Hong Kong) . Nonprofits and Government Agency attendees will be happy to know “social media for social good” is a big theme.

With over 150 events in 9 content hubs around New York City, plus my full time job, I’ve resigned to the fact that I can’t do it all. So I’ve pulled events from each day for a quick #SMWNYC guide for good.

But before you have a look at that, I want to shamelessly promote my panel on “Responding to Suicide and Digital Abuse” Wednesday, February 9^th 3:00pm at the Paley Center for Media #smvprevent. My friends from Jed Foundation, MTV, It Gets Better and Lifeline will discuss how you can keep your social sites safe and what you can do if someone says they’re in crisis on your site. In sum, what you learn at this panel could help to save a life. Hope to see you there.

If you can’t make it to the week’s events, you can virtually attend. Check in to http://socialmediaweek.org/ for livestream links. Also, every panel has been assigned a hashtag and Nokia put together a very useful application to track via Twitter.

Global View City View Event View

If any of the events are full but you really want to go, I’d stop by anyways to see if there’s room as not all who registered will show. Especially if another snowpocalypse comes our way.

MONDAY

Consumer Activism: A New Economy of Social Change, Hosted by Purpose

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Hosted at the People & Society Hub at The Paley Center for Media

Citizen 2.0 – Social Media and the Future of Participatory Government, Hosted by Reboot

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Hosted at the People & Society Hub at The Paley Center for Media

No Right Brain Left Behind: Briefing Session

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Hosted at the Business, Media & Communications Hub at JWT

TUESDAY

Is Three a Crowd? Getting the Most Out of Third-party and Social Giving Sites for Your Nonprofit, Hosted by Convio