====== Social Media Tools ======


One of the most useful set of tools available to advocacy practitioners is social media tools.  

//Social media is ... a way of using the Internet to instantly collaborate, share information, or have a conversation ideas or causes we care about. It’s a world where anyone can be a publisher, a reporter, an artist, a filmmaker, a photographer or pundit …. Even an activist or citizen philanthropist!"// - [[http://www.beth.typepad.com|Beth Kanter]]

During 2007/2008 ISC supported grantees of our USAID funded Ukraine Citizen Action Network program to explore ways they can use social media tools in their work.  We held a series of workshops in Kiev which began with an introductory workshop, a social media strategy workshop and will be followed with another introductory workshop available to more organizations and a workshop which digs deeper into the implementation of a specific social media tool such as blogs or social networking sites.

We developed a website with tools to help Ukrainian citizens make better use of online government information.  The site contains a Google Specialized Search Engine and an index of Ukrainian government websites with descriptions of the types of information available on the sites.  The site is in both Ukrainian and English.  [[http://www.tvoyaderzhava.org.ua/en/start|Click here to visit the site]].

We have also compiled Ukrainian language resources which provide short descriptions of the major social media tools. [[tech_tools:socialmedia_tools:ukraine|Click here]]