Idea: Level 2 Social Media: Difference between revisions

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Most social media is aimed at allowing people to use it to connect to other people for themselves. We're calling this "level 1" social media.
Level 1 social media allows people to connect to new friends, old friends, services and a variety of useful resources for themselves.
The idea behind Level 2 social media is that the Users have "clients." The clients can be friends, relatives, members of their church, neighbors, or actual clients of a social service organization. The users can be individuals, neighborhood leaders, neighborhood "helpers," social workers, political operatives, or anyone who wishes to be helpful to people that are primarily not themselves.
A unique characteristic of level 2 social media is the potential for users to introduce people to each other. Match-making is therefore one of the uses for level 2 social media.

To keep demographic and needs information about clients.
To allow anonymous information about clients to be shared so it can be found by other helpers.
To maintain contacts with other helpers.
To build trust relationships with other helpers.
To enable each helper to better know the skills and resources of other helpers.
To enable each helper to have access to information about the kinds of clients other helpers are working to help.
To seek out potential connections that may be beneficial to the clients.
To work with other helpers to suggest potential appropriate matches between their clients.

One of the most powerful ideas I have seen concerning community development is embedded within a project called the Connecting People Study. This project conducted research on what might be called "community-based networked social work." However, I believe that the project lost steam and I will be adding info here about the status of the project as I find it. In the mean time, Check out the video below...
Here is a link to the animated video demonstrating the idea behind the Connecting People Intervention Model.

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-* Most social media is aimed at allowing people to use it for themselves. We're calling this "'''level 1" social media'''.
+* Most social media is aimed at allowing people to use it to connect to other people for themselves. We're calling this "'''level 1" social media'''.
 * Level 1 social media allows people to connect to new friends, old friends, services and a variety of useful resources '''for themselves'''.
 * The idea behind Level 2 social media is that the '''Users have "clients."''' The clients can be friends, relatives, members of their church, neighbors, or actual clients of a social service organization. The users can be individuals, neighborhood leaders, neighborhood "helpers," social workers, political operatives, or anyone who wishes to be helpful to people that are primarily '''not themselves'''.