We promised to write up some notes from the session held today called The Utilization of Social Media & Web 2.0 to Advance the Human Rights of Young People and Adolescents (& everyone).

Below are their presentations, and the resources / links we discussed during the session. Feel free to tweet us if you have any other questions. We might update the post with a bit more of a story / explanation after we recover!

If you have something you’d like to add, let us know and we’ll include it in the list below.

The panellists were:

• Hugh Stephens (@hughstephens) from
  Dialogue Consulting
  YouthRISE
  YouthForce
• Lindsay Menard-Freeman (@lindsmf) from
  Women Deliver
  (previously) Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
• Aram Barra (@AramBarra) from
  Espolea
  YouthRISE
  YouthForce

Lindsay Menard-Freeman

Where did social media come from? eLearning and onlibne collaboration tools

Presentation PDF available here.

Resources discussed

GYCA eLearning website.

Hugh Stephens

Overview of social media services and developing a social media strategy

Networks discussed:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Google+
• Yammer (the Enterprise Social Network discussed)
• tumblr
• Pinterest
• DeviantArt
• Reddit
• Instagram
• Web.Stagram
• LinkedIn

Strategy Presentation (made using Prezi):

Resources (beyond above)

• MSF tumblr page
• Infogr.am
• Visual.ly
• Examples of graphs made for YouthAIDS2012: (one) (two)

Aram Barra: 

Examples of harm reduction campaigns through social media

Videos he showed:

FCKH8.com Straight Talk About Gay Marriage from FCKH8.com on Vimeo.

Mexican Drug Lord Thanks the UN for 50 Years of Prohibition

The Canadian Minister of Health Fears of Evidence

Questions & other resources

Other things raised:

• Witness.org video education platform
• Social media & HIV newsletter from HRSA
• Angels of Change campaign
• Idealist and Catchafire for crowdsourcing volunteers
• Kickstarter for crowdfunding
• PathFinder No Joke campaign (via Twitter)