{"id":7831,"date":"2012-09-11T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2012-09-11T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:40:26","slug":"building-a-community-that-thrives-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/2012\/09\/11\/building-a-community-that-thrives-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a community that thrives online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"#ESA2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Sandra Chung<\/a> knows social media. As a communications specialist for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) she handles all things multimedia, including spearheading NEON\u2019s Twitter feed (@NEONinc<\/a>, with Jennifer Walton), and Facebook <\/a>page.<\/p>\n

Last week, Sandra wrote about the power of Twitter to open up a meeting (the Ecological Society of America\u2019s 97th annual meeting, to wit) and start conversations both in the moment, and in the fallow days following the intense social mixer and heavy data-dump of the event. Here\u2019s a sample:<\/p>\n

For a few days in early August, the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) was a hot topic on Twitter. I know that because #ESA2012 was trending (right). There among the Internet memes<\/a> and celebrity names was #ESA2012, a hashtag code that Twitter users used to flag tweets related to the meeting.<\/p>\n

One of the hottest social media topics of the day was a scientific meeting. It wasn\u2019t the first time that it happened, and it won\u2019t be the last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026continue reading \u201cBuilding a community that thrives online, offline and after the meeting<\/a>\u201d at NEON Notes.<\/p>\n

At ESA2012, Sandra teamed up with paleoecology postdoc and blogger @JacquelynGill<\/a> to present a workshop on \u201cSocial Media for Collaboration, Outreach and Impact.\u201d The duo covered the basics of Twitter operations and online etiquette, and delved into more complex questions with their audience, like how to engage personably while tweeting under the aegis of an organization.<\/p>\n

If you missed the workshop, flip through their slides, embedded in Sandra\u2019s NEON Notes post, for an overview.\u00a0 But to get the whole story, you really had to be there as Jacquelyn and Sandra passed the lead seamlessly back and forth, fielding continuous questions and comments from the audience (corporeal and Twitter-projected) in the best unconference<\/a> style, and making this feat of facilitation seem easy. The conversation is ongoing. Check it out at #ESA2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Find more Portland 2012 blog highlights under EcoTone\u2019s ESA2012 tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandra Chung knows social media. As a communications specialist for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) she handles all things multimedia, including spearheading NEON\u2019s Twitter feed (@NEONinc, with Jennifer Walton), and Facebook page. Last week, Sandra wrote about the power of Twitter to open up a meeting (the Ecological Society of America\u2019s 97th annual meeting, to wit) and start conversations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1436],"tags":[1452,1419,743,1239,1240],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esa2012-annual-meeting","tag-community","tag-esa2012","tag-neon","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vzbmt5sl65q.c.updraftclone.com\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}