social media

We had a great members' meeting on Thursday, March 9. The morning meeting session was an ideal lead-in to the afternoon workshop, which was on engagment through the use of social media. The morning focused on making and sustaining connections within the international development community in BC and we received very helpful feedback for the work done in the last 12 months and suggestions for the next 12 months. Notes can be found here.

Joining us for the afternoon session were Shauna Sylvester and Kaitlyn Braybooke from Canada's World.

Shauna Sylvester and Canada's World have been using social media tools for a few years to faciliate a national dialogue about Canada's evolving role on the international stage. These tools have been very successful for them, and they have a lot of great lessons to share with us about how to use social media like Facebook and Twitter to reach out to new constituencies - especially young people.

We're getting ready to offer an exciting new workshop for BCCIC members. It will focus on "hands on" skills for social media tools like Facebook and Twitter.