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Engaging Youth
- 1. Engaging Youth Through Technology Miles Orkin Vice President, Development Operations California Division
- 2. Who Is This Guy? This is the part where I tell you about myself and my incredibly auspicious professional and personal history to establish my street cred so you will take me seriously and pay close attention to every single word I say… so you won’t text your friends, check your cuticles, dangle your flip flops, open another piece of gum, get up and go to the bathroom, double-check the program guide to see how many more speakers there are, ‘rest your eyes’ for a minute, or stare blatantly at that weird ACS staff person over on the side of the room looking all semi-blissed and semi-stressed and really definitely over-medicated or underslept…
- 3. In the Beginning… Case Study: An early example of youth engagement via technology It harnessed new media tools It focused on behavior change It targeted specific audiences
- 5. In the 21 st Century… How much has the basic approach changed? The Private Sector, the Public Sector, the Not-For Profit Sector all want your: Ears Eyeballs Fingers Thumbs
- 6. In the 21 st Century But Why ?
- 7. Why Engage Youth Through Tech? Youth drive innovation Youth drive behavior change Youth drive societal change Youth are a powerful market force Youth help turn new technology from a fad into a fact of life
- 8. So, Like, What IS Technology? Technology is a species’ usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how they affect a species’ ability to control and adapt to its environment.* *Source: Wikipedia
- 9. What is Technology HERE, TODAY? Three Buckets Web Email Mobile
- 10. What’s In the Buckets? Social Nets Blogs Web Sites E-Revenue Web Apps / Widgets Networked Games PDFs Voting/Tagging/ Virtual Worlds E-Communications SMS Communications SMS Revenue Video Wikis MP3s E-Advocacy Images Mobile Web
- 11. What Is ACS Doing In These Areas? Probably more than you think Probably not enough And we’re probably not always doing it the way we should
- 12. What Is ACS Doing In These Areas? You can help make us better!
- 13. American Cancer Society Online Donate at cancer.org Donate online immediately at cancer.org Great American Health Challenge Four mini-sites focusing on: screening, physical activity, healthy diet, smoking cessation. Stories of Hope Real stories from cancer survivors. http://www.cancer.org/donate http://www.cancer.org/greatamericans http://www.cancer.org/stories
- 14. American Cancer Society Online Cancer Survivors Network Web community for cancer survivors Fight Cancer Web-based cancer-fighting resources for the workplace Workplace Solutions A website for corporations to learn about the Society’s free wellness programs ACS CAN Web site for ACS’ sister advocacy organization http://www.acscsn.org/ http://www.fightcancer.org http://www.acsworkplacesolutions.com http://www.acscan.org
- 15. Event-Related Fundraising Coaches Vs. Cancer http://www.cancer.org/coaches Charity Runner http://www.cancer.org/ charityrunner Daffodil Days http://www.cancer.org/daffodils Making Strides Against Breast Cancer http://www.cancer.org/ makingstrides Relay For Life http://www. relayforlife .org
- 16. Non Event-Related Fundraising Team ACS Build your own fundraiser. MissionFish Sell items on E-Bay and give proceeds to charity. Mosaic of Hope Build a tribute Web site to a loved one and raise Search To Fight This search engine raises money to fight cancer http://www.cancer.org/teamacs http://www.missionfish.org/ acs http://www.cancer.org/mosaic http://searchtofight.org/
- 17. Division Volunteer E-Revenue Team Web industry pros Focusing on key areas of interest Small gift campaigns in social networks Enhancing and Promoting ACS Web products Strategic E-Revenue planning Especially keen on engaging with volunteer and youth volunteer teams
- 18. New Cool Stuff We’re Working On Small Gift Campaign Text-To-Give Text-For-HPV-Info Reality Check Now MySpace Impact SharingHope.TV (video!)
- 19. Reality Check Now reality check now
- 20. No Small Change
- 21. Shut Up, Miles! What do YOU think?
- 22. YOU Are the Experts Do you interact with the American Cancer Society online? Other charities? What is your social networking site of choice? What tools do you use in your social site(s) to connect with friends? What is your digital communication platform of choice? (Phone, Web, Email)
- 23. YOU Are the Experts Does a text-to-give campaign sound cool? Have you ever texted to give? To vote? To order a pizza? Would you text-to-give five dollars? What charities or other public programs ‘get’ online engagement with youth? If you were a venture capitalist and could fund one charitable e-venture, what would it be?
- 24. YOU Are the Experts What can we do online to make your volunteer activities easier and more productive? What would make it easier for you to share your ACS story? Are you satisfied with the look and feel of our Web products?
- 25. YOU Can Help Us! Are you willing to take part in fast, easy, cool, glamorous, dangerous, sexy American Cancer Society viral campaigns? Text, email, ping, and poke friends about text-to-give Join cause and event groups in social nets Share news about new cool tools and sites Record and post digital vids from your volunteer activities
- 26. Next Steps You are all officially invited to join the California Division Viral Youth Team I will upload this presentation somewhere easy to find We will keep you posted about the new cool stuff Contact me any time with ideas, inspirations, thoughts, questions: [email_address]