In this podcast, Tierney Smith, Community Manager at TechSoup Canada shares about the connection between Technology and Social Media for Community Engagement. She reveals tips and tricks for how organizations can use these "new" tools to enhance their leadership, communities and engagement efforts.

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In this podcast, Tierney Smith, Community Manager at TechSoup Canada shares about the connection between Technology and Social Media for Community Engagement. She reveals tips and tricks for how organizations can use these "new" tools to enhance their leadership, communities and engagement efforts. This podcast also looks at ways to measure your use of technology and social media in community engagement. As organizations can be resistant to these new technologies, Tierney share how and why it is important to adopt some new technologies to enhance and even expand your engagement efforts. Tierney also goes on to explore the traps that organizations can fall into when using technology or social media to deepen engagement. 

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Those who participated in the tele-learning call were able to ask questions and share their own experiences. Listen to these questions and ideas below.

Additional Resources

A collection of learnings that were tweeted during the call.  This also includes links to additional resources.

Tierney Smith created a document with all of the resources mentioned during the call.  It is a very useful tool!

Getting started with social media can be overwhelming but this is a very good wikispace from Beth Kanter to help with that!

A crash course in social media for community engagement from Bang the Table.

About the Speaker

Tierney Smith is the Community Manager of Tech Soup Canada. She regularly tests out new programs, technology and social media ideas for their use to non profits of all sizes. She writes a blog about these resources: http://www.techsoupcanada.ca/blog/11935 as part of her work.