Submitted by WeStrive on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 21:31
The idea: a Meet-up is not just about participants being provided with materials, but about everyone sharing their 
knowledge, experience and ideas on a topic. Meet-ups are opportunities for us to share our collective explorations of life through lessons, exercises, activities, conversation and engagement.
The Summer 2010 Meet-up is all about experiencing the idea of the Meet-up’s theme through our participation in its creation.
idea + social media = change the world?
Join us as we explore three questions:
- What is social media?
- How does social media impact my life?
- How can I use it to benefit and do good in the world?
The challenge: within the next twenty-four hours (from July 14th 12:00A EST-July 15th 12:00A EST), submit your answers to these three questions either through a short video, a blog, written text, a poem, a text message, a Skype message to leslie.loy, or a Tweet to @WeStrive and our video editors will make a collaborative Meet-up video that will be distributed on July 17th around the world for our Meet-up. Email submissions to meetup@westrive.org.
Answer the questions through video, chat, Twitter or a social networking site by July 15th.
Social media:using email, chat, social networking sites, Twitter, and more, invite people to join your Meet-up in less-than twenty-four hours and see what happens when you use networking tools to bring your local community together.
What kind of action can you co-create using social media within a twenty-four hour period? What kind of interaction do you generate or inspire in others in your community to do good?
Join or host a Meet-up on Saturday, July 17th in your community to pick up the question:
how does social media help the world?
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Relevant Content
- Social Media and Its Effects on Our Lives: A WeStrive.org and Sense Festival Collaborative Meet-up
- August 2010 Letter to the Community
- June 2010 Letter to the Community
- A Resurgence of Research: Announcing the 2010 Threefold Visiting Researcher Frank Chester and a Call for Applications for the Fellowship By Bill Day
- Haiti: Seeing Destruction and Joy by Lukas Mall
- Special WeStrive eNews March 1, 2010 Community Letter
- About Focus
3 comments for "WeStrive’s Summer 2010 Social Media Meet-up: Co-creating a Meet-up video in twenty-four hours".
1. This Meet-ups materials are
This Meet-ups materials are available at: http://westrive.org/node/4344.
2. Thank You!
Thank you to all for participating and taking such an interest in the Meet-up co-creation process! Social media is, as so many noted, a dauntingly complex topic, and it continues to become such. The Editorial and Meet-up teams will now edit contributions together in a video for the Meet-up this coming weekend. In the meantime, if you want to host a Meet-up--join in the second step of the challenge and volunteer to do so and then using networking tools, invite people to join you! Find out just how connected you are through all the social media/medium and get people to show-up for conversation. Email meetup@westrive.org for more information.
3. Understanding the nature of social media
With a little over 2.5 hours left until the deadline for our social media Meet-up video, I find myself filled with questions: how do large companies--such as Nike--use social media in contrast to fledgling nonprofits? How do friends rely on social media to convey ideas and interests? How do we all use the same tools to do different things and are we effective in the process?