Social Media for Social Good by @JoeyShepp

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Web StrategistProgram Director

Social Media Today

Moore’s Law

750 Million Active Users70% outside of the USA

8,868 Tweets Per Second

2 Days of VideoUploaded Every Minute

92% of U.S. Toddlers Have Online Presence

Potential for Social Good

10 Ways Social Media can be used for Social Good

1. Education

2. Democracy

3. Love

4. Money

5. Disaster

6. Mobility

7. Local News

8. Citizen Science

9. Local Food

10. Farming

Education

Education

• Touch Interface

• Affordability

• Global

http://KhanAcademy.org/

• 1 to 1 iPadProgram

• 5th Grade Pilot

• Faculty Support

GreenMBA Community

• Blog

• Facebook Page

• Facebook Group

• Twitter

• You Tube

• Email Lists

http://GreenMBA.com

Democracy

Democracy

• Social Voting

• Citizen Journalism

• Open Government

Social Voting

http://CitizenTube.com/

http://OpenCongress.org

Money

Financing

• Microfinance

• Croudfunding

• Microvolunteering

http://Kiva.org/

$240 Million Loaned

Loan Repayment Rate: 98%

Loans to Women: 81%

http://KickStarter.com/

http://Sparked.com/

Love

Love

• Profiles

• Matching

• New Relationships

Online Dating

Bigger Industry than Porn

Online Dating

1 in 6 US Marriages Started Online

Health

Health

• Information Access

• Home Monitoring

• Preventative

http://23andMe.com/

http://iHadCancer.com/

Disaster

Disaster

• Locate Lost

• Status Reports

• Donations and Volunteers

Disaster Response

Haiti

Faster Than Earthquakes

Mobility

Mobility

• Mobile Phones

• GPS/4G

• Crowd Sourcing

http://GetAround.com/

http://Google.com/Transit

Hyperlocal News

Hyperlocal News

• Citizen Journalism

• Mobile Reporting

• Real-Time

http://SanRafael.ThePatch.com

http://YouTube.com/Direct/

Citizen Science

Citizen Science

• Crowd Sourcing

• On Location

• Photos/Videos

http://YourGardenShow.com

Local Food

Local Food

• Local Reviews

• Local Farmers

• Mobile Food

http://LocalHarvest.org

http://GetLocalvore.com

Social Media Drives Sales

Farming

Connected Farmers

20% rise in Farmers Online in the past decade

http://AgChat.org/

http://AgWired.com/

Privacy

Privacy

• Understanding Permissions

• Balance of Transparency

• Consequences to Conspiracy

http://Facebook.com/

http://WikiLeads.org/

Collective Consciousness

Global Citizenship

Stay Human

Questions?

http://JoeyShep.com

Gaming

• Social Gaming

•Gaming Productivity

•Gamification

Death