David Wilcox and I had a meetup earlier this week, where we talked about the different ways that organisations need to be approached in terms of how they might make use of social media and web 2.0 stuff – or not, as the case may be.
We touched on David’s work at the RSA and the subsequent collaboration for membership organisations; as well as some of the outputs of events like the Social Media Big Day Out and the barcampukgovweb.
Wouldn’t it be nice, we thought, if there was a toolkit out there which provided the materials needed for an organisation to work through the options, decide what their issues are and figure out how they can meet those issues with a mixture of on and offline responses.
So we did the only thing a pair of self-respecting social hackers do, and set about creating such a thing – and all in the open, of course. You can find it all at the etoolkit wiki. Don’t worry, that’s just a working title.
It is envisaged that the toolkit will be made up of 3 elements:
- The toolkit itself, a prepared pack of information
- A facilitated workshop
- A dedicated network space for post event support and discussion
The toolkit itself will be made freely available, probably under creative commons. It will be open enough to be easily bespoked for a sector, whether charities, local gov, membership organisations or whoever. People can pick the toolkit up and facilitate the workshop within organisations; or consultants could specialise in delivering it themselves and charge for it.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, and please do sign up with the wiki and start to contribute your ideas if you would like to.
Dave,
I would think you could get some members of the Social Media CoP involved in this. One issue I can see is getting the attention of organsiations that are slavishly following whatever Microsoft do (e.g. Sharepoint…arghhh!)
Love the idea! Just visited the wiki and requested to join.
@Steve – good idea. Have already mentioned it on the facilitators CoP.
@Beth great to have you involved!