Social Media - an Outside the UN Perspective | #undpcom on Dec 19, 2011
Four leading social media experts - @adamhirsch @alecjross @rachelsterne @sree - met with around 300 United Nations staff as well as students and journalists at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in December to discuss how the UN can best harness social media tools to reach their global objectives. Here are some of the tweets from this event:
- 21st Century Statecraft Alec Ross (@AlecJRoss), Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Tell your bosses 21st C is terrible time to be a control freak, says @AlecJRoss, @statedept innov guru j.mp/v2rmq0 #undpcom
So true. "People follow individuals, not institutions." - @AlecJRoss at #UNDPcom event. Wish I would get more buy-in for that...
@AlecJRoss: Dont just concentrate on talking on #socialmedia, but concentrate on listening. You only have 1 mouth. You have 2 ears. #undpcom
think about local information environment/tools (esp for orgs with staff in so many countries) @AlecJRoss #undpcom
Make info more available to vulnerable communities via mobile technology, eg Idps in east Congo @AlecJRoss #undpcom- @icow uses #socmedia 2 help African dairy farmers increase yield @alecjross #undpcom #fb yfrog.com/kjhmwnkj
- Making NYC the Digital Capital of the World - Roadmap for a social, open government Rachel Sterne (@RachelSterne), Chief Digital Officer for the government of New York City
. @rachelsterne talks about reinventing how local gov engages with the public #undpcom http://pic.twitter.com/YoUY6FlL
Twitter requires enormous energy.. it is not a quick easy phenomenon. Stay strategic and invest the resources. ~ @rachelsterne #UNDPcom
@rachelsterne: Mainstream social landscape now will be wildly different in five years #undpcom
nycgov digital provides evidence for governments why #socialmedia engagement is relevant for public institutions. @rachelsterne at #undpcom- How the UN can optimize its social networks Sree Sreenivasan (@sree), Dean of Student Affairs and digital media professor at Columbia Journalism School in New York City:
