Social Media Workshop for Civil Society

About Us

The Reconstructed Living Lab is one of ten in South Africa, and the first one in the Western Cape. The project has grown out of collaboration between Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and a community organisation Impact Direct. It has features that are unique in living labs as it is community led and is based in a social deprived area in Cape Town.

“Introduction to Social Media for Non-profits, NGOs, Community-Based Organisations and Charities”

The “new web” has transformed the way people connect and social media platforms have become an essential part of the organizational and business strategies. These technologies can be useful for non profits as strategic tools for engagement, relationship building with stakeholders and communities, networking and fundraising. With millions of users of social media in South Africa alone and over a billion worldwide across various platforms (PCs, Mobile phones etc.) this is an opportunity for non profits to share with the masses using FREE tools available to support the vision of such organizations.

Content:
This one day training “hands-on” workshop will cover the following areas:

1. Background to social media and tools such as blogs, wikis, micro-blogs, wikis, and multimedia file-sharing sites
2. Provide guidelines to how your organisation can utilise and reap the benefits of social media
3. Practical opportunities for participants to engage with some of the social media tools
4. Social Media and mobile phones
5. Drafting a Social Media Policy for non-profits

Objectives:

• Understanding of Social Media and its context
• Identified tools that could be integrated into the non-profit operations to support its vision and objectives
• Introductory level of hands-on experience using social media tools
• To use mobile phones as possible social media devices
• Understand the importance of Social media for  non-profit

Workshop Details:
All required equipment will be provided for the workshop and this includes all refreshments for the day. The price of the workshop is R1, 500.00 for the day or RSVP your seat with the code RLABS by the 23 April 2010 and we will waver your fee by 66% (You Pay ONLY R500.00).

Workshop Date & Time: 4 May 2010, 9:00 – 13:30

66 Tarentaal Road, Bridgetown, Athlone, 7764 – Tel: 021 6374037/6991453 – Fax: 0862113079

contact email: rene@rlabs.org