Connect
Thanks to social media, there are lots of ways you can participate online—whether you're there or not!
Watch Sessions
Watch videos of
It's Up to YOU! Opening Plenary Session
or Here's to YOU! Inspiration Event.
Facebook
"Like" the Conference Facebook page so that the official wall posts show up in your Facebook news feed.
You are welcome and invited to post thoughts, ideas, etc. to the Facebook page.
Crowdvine
In order to help you meet and connect with as many people as possible, we've set up a conference social networking site where you can see who's coming, find out what they have to share and make plans to get together. Create your own attendee profile and see who else is coming.
Eventbrite
This free tool will allow you to organize an event around conference and invite anyone.
Want to host a breakfast to discuss the topic of your dreams? Want to organize an affinity group meetup? Want to suggest an afterhours meet up spot? You can do all of this with eventbrite.
Check out what your fellow conference attendees are organizing so far.
Blogging
You are invited to write a blog post (for your own blog or as a guest post on ours) about a session you're excited about leading up to conference or reviewing a session you attended afterward.
Blogging is a great way to share what you're excited about and/or what you've learned.
The HandsOn Blog editorial guidelines are here and the National Conference Blog editorial guidelines are here.
If you write a post for your own blog, send us a link to it at connect@HandsOnNetwork.org.
Twitter
Follow @NCVS on Twitter to hear all the official conference tweets. Additionally, follow the conference conversation by searching the #NCVS Twitter hashtag. Join the conversation by adding "#NCVS" to your tweets — adding that hashtag in your tweet is the way to have your tweet show up in the conference twitter stream.
While the overall conference conversation will take place on the #NCVS hashtag, you can follow individual session twitter streams by searching on the unique session #hashtag. For example, the Social Media for Social Good Forum hashtag will be #SM4SG and, if you follow that hashtag from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 29th, you'll hear what everyone in the forum is saying about it.
You can also follow HandsOn Network @HandsOnNetwork as well as our NCVS Featured Tweeps list.
Here's a hint from Chris Jarvis of Realized Worth – If you want, you can cut & past twitter list name in to Tweepml.org and follow everyone on the list with one push of the button.
(Make yourself an NCVS Featured Tweep by tweeting "Make me a featured tweep @HandsOnNetwork")
It's super easy to follow twitter conversations using your cell phone. So before conference, you might want to download a cell phone application for managing Twitter.
See all the conference tweets organized by session on our Tweet Notes page.
FourSquare
Want to know who's in the room with you at any given NCVS session? "Check-in" using FourSquare, and you'll be able to see who else is there. Maybe you'll even unlock a swarm badge!
Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.
On Delicious, users can tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen term. A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://delicious.com/tag/ncvs" displays all of the most recent links tagged "NCVS." Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by other users.
See all the great NCVS content saved to Delicious and add your own!
Flickr
Share your NCVS photos with everyone using the HandsOn Network Flickr group. You can upload your favorite conference shots here by clicking on the words "add something."
YouTube
Send links to your favorite NCVS videos, and we'll add them to the conference YouTube channel. Send your video links to connect@HandsOnNetwork.org.
LinkedIn
Start a LinkedIn affinity sub-group on HandsOn Network's Linked In Group. You can hold forum style discussions here on topics before conference and / or continue discussions that were initiated at NCVS.
