Due to the snowpocalypse that hit the DC area in early February, the Holocaust Museum’s first attempt at organizing a tweet-up was canceled. We have now rescheduled for Monday, March 22, 2010. Details below:

The first tweet-up will focus on the hot topic of mobile technologies. It is scheduled for Monday, March 22, from 5:30 to 7:30pm at RFD (810 7th Street NW; Metro: Red, exit Gallery Place/Chinatown; http://www.lovethebeer.com/rfd-directions.html).

Joining us to set the stage will be Nancy Proctor, Head of New Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and writer of the blog MuseumMobile, http://museummobile.info/. Questions we hope to cover include: When should one create an iPhone app vs. using the mobile Web? What are important considerations when structuring a mobile giving campaign? What are best practices for integrating multimedia and text in mobile programming? What are the most innovative uses of user-generated content in mobile programming?

Come prepared to share your experiences, whether successes and failures, and above all else, just come to hang out, reconnect with your colleagues, make some new connections, and have a few beers.

To ensure we have enough chairs set up at RFD, please RSVP to my e-mail awong@ushmm.org or at the twtvite for this event: http://twtvite.com/mt2vfe.

If you have ideas for future tweet-ups, please share those as well!

*This event has been canceled due to inclement weather. It will be rescheduled soon.*

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is launching a series of tweet-ups to continue discussions begun at The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Social Good in December 2009. These informal gatherings are open to anyone interested in the application of social media and emerging technologies to further the missions of “institutions of conscience” or simply to people grappling with how to best use social media for “social good.”

The first tweet-up will focus on the hot topic of mobile technologies. It is scheduled for Monday, February 8, from 5:30 to 7:30pm at RFD (810 7th Street NW; Metro: Red, exit Gallery Place/Chinatown; http://www.lovethebeer.com/rfd-directions.html).

Joining us to set the stage will be Nancy Proctor, Head of New Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and writer of the blog MuseumMobile, http://museummobile.info/. Questions we hope to cover include: When should one create an iPhone app vs. using the mobile Web? What are important considerations when structuring a mobile giving campaign? What are best practices for integrating multimedia and text in mobile programming? What are the most innovative uses of user-generated content in mobile programming?

Come prepared to share your experiences, whether successes and failures, and above all else, just come to hang out, reconnect with your colleagues, make some new connections, and have a few beers.

To ensure we have enough chairs set up at RFD, please RSVP to my e-mail awong@ushmm.org or at the twtvite for this event: http://twtvite.com/yxpe9f.

If you have ideas for future tweet-ups, please share those as well!

Conscience Un-Conference participants,

Whether you joined in the lively discussions at the Holocaust Museum’s offices or via Twitter, on behalf of the organizing committee – Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media, myself and my colleagues at the Museum, David Klevan, Heather Ratcliff (who unfortunately could not be at #conconf), Michael Haley Goldman and Rebekah Sobel – I must thank you again for your interest and enthusiasm in discussing how institutions of conscience, and people of conscience in general, can better use social media for social good. We had hoped a diverse group of people with different experiences and skill sets would enliven a conversation about shared concerns, and we are humbled and emboldened that it appears to have worked.

If the un-conference was a success, it was largely because of your willingness to share your expertise and knowledge with each other. Now, we hope you will help us plan for even better future un-conferences. As a first step, whether you participated in person or via Twitter, we would appreciate if you would take a few moments to fill out a brief post-evaluation survey.

As many participants expressed, we too would like to continue the conversations started Saturday and we welcome your thoughts on how we can help sustain them. There was talk that a shared, collaborative online space could help support conversation, information-sharing, and laying the groundwork for the Conscience Un-Conference in 2010. If the Museum were to create such a space, what would you want it to include? What platforms do you think would best support it?

Regarding the Tweetbook, I’ve pulled all the #conconf tweets from Saturday and will start compiling them into sessions. If you facilitated any of the sessions, I would greatly appreciate if you would provide me with a short write-up that can introduce the session’s tweets in the Tweetbook. If, like Rik or Julie, you’ve posted a summary of your session somewhere online, please let me know so I can paraphrase an intro from that.

The Tweetbook will include a table of contents, the tweets pertaining to each session in chronological order, and an appendix compiling all of the shared resources. If you have any other ideas for what should be included, please let me know.

Thank you again for your participation in the Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good. Here’s to it being just the beginning.