Upgrade your Department: Tools for 2010 (NNE Conference Presentation)

Written by Ryan Hegreness Saturday, 06 March 2010 01:37

The following presentation was given at the Northern New England Conference on Recreation. The bottomw right corner of the presenation has three important buttons. The first allows you to email the presenation to someone that might find it useful. The second provides you with some code that can be placed on another website so that the presentation is visible there. The last shows the presentation in full-screen mode - which will make it much easier to read and follow. There was a great turnout for the presentation and the feedback was great. I hope you find the presentation informative as well!

Presentation Topics

(1-13) Introduction:

• Why talk about technology in parks and recreation
• A look at generation sizes/characteristics and the implications for parks and recreation

(14-28) Routine Department Functions:

• Program Evaluations
• Job Applications
• Community/Member Needs Assessments
• Social Exchange Theory: Rewards, Costs, Trust
• Question Logic and Skip Patterns
• SurveyMonkey.com, SurveyGizmo.com, RecSurveys.com
• Online Forms

(29-48) Business Communication, Collaboration & Networking:

(30) Collaboration

• Google Documents
• Google Calendar
• Project Management (Basecamp)
• Dropbox
• LogMeIn

(38) Networking

• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Recreation 2.0
• NRPA

(45) Business Communication

• Skype
• Google Voice
• Google Wave

(49-64) Customer Service & Marketing:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Online Video
• Blogs
• Social media integration on your website
• RecWebsites.com

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Social Media for Parks and Recreation

Written by Ryan Hegreness Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:25

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The following post has been re-blogged from RecWebsites.com:

I was quoted a time or two in the February, 2010 issue of Parks and Recreation Magazine in an article about social media. In developing the article, several park and recreation professionals were asked to respond to a few questions about social media and how they are utilizing it in their department. I thought I'd share my answers with everyone:

Which mediums are you using?

We have placed our main emphasis on our website and have integrated many social features on the site itself (such as commenting, emailing articles to friends, and subscribing to content). We have recently begun using Twitter and Facebook and have integrated those feeds into our website. We are in the process of launching a new website that will take this a step further by automatically updating our social networks whenever we, or a visitor, posts new information to our site. The aspect of the new website I am most excited about is the online brochure. Each program in the brochure can have a photo gallery, video, user ratings, comments, a link to register online, and the ability for visitors to share the program page on any number of social networks. We are also considering adding our own facebook-like social network on our site where community groups can be formed (for example: a walking club that updates members on where they will be walking, a pick-up soccer group, a group for our investing club, etc.).

Why did you choose those?

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