Hi, everyone:

We have a PMC meeting on April 15th at TechSoup in San Francisco at 7 PM, and three upcoming opportunities to help make a difference using social media.

We need people to volunteer to get involved with programs we are setting up on May 1st and later in July.  On April 15th , we’ll spend time at our meeting forming committees to work on aspects of these projects (and perhaps others if people have ideas), but we need people who want to help plan the May 1st event to jump in now and join the small team that is forming. We’ll do a separate set of calls etc to fast track that.

May 1, San Francisco University, Journalism Innovations conference (URL here)

PMC is going to teach 5 free sessions on using social media at the conference, with sign ups in advance, but walks ins accepted if there is room. We need people to help create the curriculum, and to be trainers and presenters that day. We also need people to help man a table in the hall to talk about PMC. 

Kara Andrade, Susan Mernit, Raines Cohen, Maiki Interi, Amy Gahran, Susan Magnolia, David Cohn, Trisha Obuko are among the people who have stepped up already, but we could use about 10 more people.

This is a commitment to a couple of phone meetings, 1 meeting before the event, and 3-4 hours on site per person on May 1st. We will have a workspace to post materials, etc.  Sign up on wiki here please http://publicmediacollaborative.pbwiki.com/Sign-up-May-1-event-team%2C-volunteers

Mid July, 2009: Social Media for Social Change training day

We’d like put on a one-day event in mid July that is the first training event PMC will do and the model for future events in that it has an open source curriculum, a Bar-Camp model support framework, and the ability to be replicated based on our documentation. The goal is to involve 15-30 people in an event for about 100-120 people where we would partner with smaller non-profits, community organizations and community activists/organizers and offer a day of consultations and training at no cost. Groups can send their staffers. 

We’d offer a series of workshops, all with live web access (and ask people to bring laptops) and cover a set of topics from getting started with social media and blogging to using twitter, to planning  and executing a full social media strategy. We’d have a lunch break, and a big party in the evening.  We’ll do a Spanish-language track for this event, led by Kara Andrade.

We need people to volunteer to get involved to work on logistics, finding a space, curriculum and training and working on the day. Some folks have some great ideas about sponsorships to support lunch etc. Sign up here to indicate interest; we’ll form some groups to work on logistics, curriculum, mentoring, counseling programs, trainings, party.

Goal would be to then do a similar event in the South Bay and or SF in September, using the same format and materials (tweaked by what we learn, of course).

Finally, there is a quick opportunity to join Susan in teaching a social media strand at the EngageHer conference at UC Berkeley  on April 25th and 26th. See http://www.engageher.airset.com/#_n.engageher+p.%2FHome%1Fhtml for info on this women of color focused event.

 We’re seeking 2-3 people to come in and help teach about getting started with social media, using twitter, building your brand with social media, and planning social media campaigns.

The goal will be to help educate on social media, how to build a social media strategy to brand yourself and/or your program or organization, and how to execute a social media campaign  If you know women who have skills that fit and who might have an interest in taking part, please send them my way.

Let Susan know if any of this is of interest—Spanish and Chinese language programs welcomed as well.

Maiki Interi (interi.org) and Susan Magnolia are creating simple web page to link to the wiki, a logo and a flyer or postcard for the event. They plan to have materials to show at the April 15th meeting.

Best, Susan