Social Ch@nge

("Brains! Braaaaiiiaaaiiiiaaaiiinns" reprint courtesy Noie to Signal/Rob Cottingham)

There’s something about the grey depressingness of Hallowe’en in Canada that brings out the zombie in everyone. Trying to make your next presentation a thriller? Need some (ahem) braaaaaains to help you through your new duties as social media champion?

Help is on the way.

First, Social Signal (full disclosure: I’m their social media  strategist) has launched Open SoSi - an open sourced, step by step introduction to every bit of their intellectual property – free tools, free methodologies, fantastic ideas. If you want to stay appraised as they release new tools and advice week by week, you can follow them on Twitter, or you can visit their OpenSoSi page to begin from the beginning.

My favorite release so far has been Rob and Alex talking about the Concept Jam workshops Social Signal offers – these are full day workshops used to identify an organisation’s best social media options and get everyone on the path to imagining your strategy. I’ve worked on these presentations, and I still learned something new from this post where they mention an excellent downloadable book by Andy Goodman (”Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes”) Not everyone’s secure about their Power Point skills, but after OpenSoSi and this book you’ll be armed with all the know how you need in order to — zombie metaphors aside — slay your next audience.

Happy Hallowe’en!

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Extra extra: Canadians, improve your communities and win big bucks. October 31 is the last day to submit to Round 1 of the Aviva Community Fund, which could fund your non-profit/community organisation/band of inspired people’s next great project to improve the community. Successive rounds will be open to new ideas but it pays to get in it to win it early – winning is dependent on the number of votes you can raise for your project.