Tuesday, February 12, 2013

CADCA Leadership Forum 2013 Resources

Another really great CADCA National Leadership Forum is in the books, closing last Thursday evening.  This is the only forum of this kind attended by some 2600 substance abuse prevention coalition leaders -- working to create positive change in communities around the world.  The passion shown and willingness to speak and act for change is always inspiring.

For those that attended the social media workshops Raye Shilen (@preventiongeek) and I presented, we say a huge thank you.  As promised we've posted everything online on our conference workshop wiki page including the slide decks, handouts, materials and a really great infographic Raye produced using our collective information on social media for free range learning.  Everyone is most welcome to use what we've posted and we'd love to hear from you as you engage and integrate technology in prevention and social change. Everything we've posted on the wiki is under creative commons license. (Gratitude to Robin Good for the video explanation about Creative Commons.)

Three cover images to social media workshops by Coy-Shilen, Social Media 101, Social Media and Free Range Learning and Twitterverse.
http://bit.ly/CLF2013
We had the largest group of people participating via Twitter that I've seen at this conference so I'm jazzed that coalitions are seeing the value and contributing using this open communications tool.  Having a bigger crowd of tweeple (people using twitter) sure made it more fun and interesting with lots of helpful comments, pictures and resources (I'm still following up on links).

Both Raye and I would be most grateful for the gift of your thinking, so jump in below with a comment or question.  If you attended the forum, what stands out to you from the social media workshops? What ideas did you hear in other workshops you'd like to see spread with social media? If you didn't attend the forum but have given a look at the content we posted, what strikes you as valuable or unclear?  Let's talk.
 

3 comments:

Inga Manskopf said...

Thanks for posting your workshop information, LaDonna!  I wish I had been able to attend the CADCA Forum.  My coalition is planning to expand to YouTube this year and Twitter next year.  We're also thinking about doing an live chat via Facebook or Google+.  Your blog always provides me with new ideas and inspiration!

coyenator said...

Hi Inga,  you are most welcome.  I look forward to seeing you again and would like to congratulate you on a most excellent blog!  Your recent piece on the adolescent brain and alcohol is really great.  I hadn't thought of placing slides in a post quite like what you've done -- really helpful and so easy to scan. I've not tried a live chat on Google+ (only tweet chats) but that would be interesting -- sounds like I need to explore more :).  Video is such an exciting direction for your coalition - can't hardly wait to see what you all create :) 

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