'Citizen 2.0' Training

Learn to use social media tools to build community and business.

Participation in local government is important. It's the only way to influence policies that may affect you, it keeps politicians accountable, and local government decisions and community effort are key to driving local business development.

One of the ways to break down the barriers is Citizen 2.0. This is a community member engaged through simple Web communication tools to know what's going on in their City, with the means to… Show more quickly and easily add meaningful input. Citizen 2.0 is streamlined activism for modern life. It is bringing people together around community and economic development in non-traditional ways.

Social media is the Web-tool enabled culture that drives Citizen 2.0. We'll cover the culture of collaboration, transparency and immediacy of Web 2.0, and give an overview of blogging and an introduction to tools such as Facebook, Skype, Yelp, Twitter and Google Alerts. This demo will include how to "talk the talk" when it comes to getting started with these tools.

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