====== Serbia Social Media Workshop Resources ======

===== Social Media for Beginners =====

An A-Z resource on social media terms and definitions.  [[http://socialmedia.wikispaces.com/ShortAZ|Social Media A-Z]]

Resources from a social media and advocacy workshop in South Africa.  [[http://advotechsa.wikispaces.com/resources|The Advotechsa wiki.]]

===== We Are Media =====

A toolkit for nonprofits, consultants and others to enable the successful use of social media tools.  Includes articles, introductory materials, resource pages, a list of experts.

[[http://www.wearemedia.org/|We Are Media]]

===== Movies on Social Media and Web 2.0 =====

{{youtube>small:MpIOClX1jPE|Social Media in Plain English}}

{{youtube>small:NLlGopyXT_g|The Machine is Us/ing Us}}

{{youtube>small:sPQViNNOAkw|Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. Collaboration}}

===== Articles on Social Media =====

[[http://www.idealware.org/articles/participatory_tools.php|Power from the People: Assessing the New Online Participatory Tools for Your Organization]]

New online participatory tools like blogs, YouTube, and MySpace can be powerful and valuable – if they mesh with your goals. Colin Delany walks through the benefits and costs of common participatory tools and suggests which are likely to be useful for you.

[[http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page7935.cfm|Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites?]]

Signs that a social networking site might work — or not work — for you

===== Blogs =====

[[http://beth.typepad.com/|Beth Kanter's Blog]]

[[http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/|Beth Kanter's web portfolio]]  This site is full of social media resources for nonprofits.

[[http://www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com/|Katya Andresen]]  Katya's nonprofit marketing blog