The Network of Public Sector Communicators

Two-hour Social Media Workshop

Wednesday - 17th September 2008

Social Media are rapidly transforming the way people interact and connect and their impact on your organisation’s reputation can be huge. Key elements in managing reputation and participating in conversations are knowing what’s been said and understanding Social Media’s strengths and weakness, rules and risks.

The challenge is immense when you consider there are more blogs in the world than there are Mexicans (112 million) and each day they produce more content that 117 years of the Dominion Post (1.6 million articles). Anyone can say anything to everyone and no one is being paid to create this content. We have to tools to listen to all of this, but are we using them?

Matt Lane (State Services Commission) will address these issues in a two-hour workshop on Social Media. It follows his popular address to Comms08 conference.

You will be shown how you can have near-omniscience, being immediately informed whenever anyone mentions your organisation on-line. This will give you the upper hand in managing your organisation's reputation, and enable you to participate in conversations that are already happening without you. The workshop will be limited to 14 participants so register early.

When: 10.30am to 12.30pm, Wednesday, 17th September 2008
Where: Boardroom, State Services Commission 100 Molesworth Street.
Cost: $25 - (GST inclusive). Workshop attendees limited to 14.
Register: Cathy Trewby, Administrator, Network of Public Sector Communicators
Email: info@psnetwork.org.nz

Date 16 October (TBC) 2008 AGM

Time: 5.15pm
Where: Conference Room National Library entrance off Aitkin St Thorndon
Speaker: TBC
Topic: TBC
RSVP: TBA.

We have included the dates we have arranged so far. As we get more information about them we will update the website and closer to the time we will send out an email reminder to those on the email list.