Don’t know your RSS from your elbow? Want to find out how activists can use Twitter for online community building; report live from actions as well as generate media coverage?
This short training session will give attendees a basic grounding in exactly what is Twitter and how it fits into the wider world of Internet-enabled DIY media tools.
Building on this context the session will look at practical applications of Twitter relevant to activists including community building; outreach and driving media interest.
Date: Tuesday 22 June, 2010.
Time: 7pm
Duration: 2 hours
Location: The Theatre, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6AB.
Cost: FREE (but please RSVP so that we can get an idea of numbers)
Brought to you by the Agents of Intervention, as part of the Arts Admin’s Interference Festival. Contact:[email protected]
Itinerary
7-7.30pm
o Introduction to Twitter
o Social media: some context
o What is Twitter?
7.30-8pm
o An Anatomy of Twitter
o How it works
o Understanding the language of Twitter (@s; RTs and #hashtags)
o What tools to use (using Twitter via a mobile vs a computer; etc)
8-8.15pm
SHORT BREAK
8.20-8.45pm
o Building a community/movement
o Targeted network building
o Engaging
o Understanding etiquette
8.45-9.15pm
o Using Twitter for activism
o Using Twitter for action reports
o Using Twitter as a media tool
o Twitter security
I’d like to come please. Ed Foster.
I know the basics but am not quite up to speed on Twitter so this’ll be very useful. Especially interested in all the mysterious secondary platforms, bunched feeds etc.
Am very keen to join – also know the basics but am sure I can learn more:)
Working on a Social Media strategy at the moment, so definitely intrested in this.
Yes I would like to come on this please
I’d really like to come too, sounds great.
Hi, can I book a spot too please. Thanks.
Let us know if you have a video re-cap of this session! Getting there in person would require far too many carbon emissions!