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Simple Technology How-To's from Puget SoundOff
Submitted by saraneppl on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 10:28am
Puget SoundOff may be a project that is geared toward youth and teens, but we've discovered there are still a few things those of us who consider ourselves adults can learn from their tutorials!
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"Puget Sound Off responds to the prior lack of a local central online hub for youth action, dialogue, events and showcase for teen accomplishments. It provides a space to speak up, speak with, and be heard. It's a place to learn and use new tools."
Learning! New tools! Fantastic. Here at CityClub we know there's a bit of a learning curve when it comes to some of the social networking that's going on these days. And although I've used blogs for many, many years, I've never blogged in a professional capacity - that's where my personal learning curve lies. How do I stay on task, make the blog interesting, and encourage interactivity and feedback at the same time? And of course, we face the biggest fear of any blogger: "What if nobody comments?" A friend once referred to comments as "blog food" - the more comments you get, the more you want to blog. But you have to blog before you can have the comments - it's a cycle.
That's why I took some time to watch one of Puget SoundOff's tutorial videos: "Blogistics: A Beginner's Guide to Blogs." Full disclosure: I skipped straight to the section titled "How to Build an Audience", and took this advice to heart: be patient. Always a difficult task, especially when everyone on your staff and on your board are so excited about the new blog, they always want to know if it's received any comments! But readers don't come overnight, and building something like this is a process. Puget SoundOff's video is a wonderful, easy to understand how-to that is separated in to small segments - you can watch the video in order, or skip to the parts you find more relevant to you.
The other great video we love is "Social Networking for Social Change." This tutorial talks about social networking you may already use, online sites, identifying your audience and your desired change, and using social networking to get your message out. Clearly this is a topic of interest for us!
We encourage you, if you're curious at all, to check out these two videos from Puget SoundOff. And let us know what you think! (And remember, comments are blog food!)
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