Please join SMCNH for our Fall 2011 Meeting on the campus of The University of New Hampshire. Topics include Social Media on Campus, How to Use Google+ and What's New in the World of Mobile Apps.The event is sponsored by The UNH Violence Support & Prevention Center. 

Pizza provided by Durham House of Pizza.

UNH's SHARPP Gets Social 

The Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) provides support, advocacy, information, and prevention education on the issues of relationship violence, sexual violence, and stalking to the University of New Hampshire Durham campus.

Since its creation in 1988, violence is still an issue at UNH but the way SHARPP engages students has shifted dramatically. Students are no longer wanting to visit the department during office hours or meet in the student center for traditional in-person education. To meet the needs of students, SHARPP has changed its whole approach to outreach and now seeks to get social with the UNH community and meet students where they are… online.  Dawn D. Zitney was hired as the first media outreach coordinator for SHARPP, also the first department at UNH and the first college campus crisis center in the country to hire a staff member whose main job function is to use social media and emerging technology to outreach to students. Through Facebook and Twitter, SHARPP is educating the community and sparking dialogue about violence prevention. Using YouTube they're working with students to create multimedia snippets on how they define and get sexual consent. With chat rooms, SHARPP is also expanding the ways they provide direct services to survivors of violence and those who care about them...  and this is just the beginning.

On The Web: www.unh.edu/sharpp

Social Media Keyword: UNHSHARPP

Find SHARPP on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare & FourSquare.

Google PLUS

Google+ is a new social network operated by Google, Inc.

Brian DeKoning from Vital Design will join us to discuss just how it all works and what it means to be a part of someone's circle. Brian will also demonstrate how to get started creating a new Google+ account and explain it's security and how to join a "hangout." Come listen and find out what makes this new social app different from Facebook and why you should care. 

On the Web: http://plus.google.com 

About our speakers:

Dawn D. Zitney, Media Outreach Coordinator, Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP), University of New Hampshire 

As media outreach coordinator at SHARPP, Dawn is responsible for creating, implementing, and managing the department’s marketing and social marketing campaigns – using traditional and emerging technology. Prior to joining SHARPP Dawn worked at UNH Health Services where she made the department one of the first organizations on campus to use social media. Dawn is a member of UNH’s Social Media Committee and has assisted several UNH departments in learning more about and setting up their own social media sites, including the UNH President’s Commission on the Status of Women. Follow Dawn on Twitter at @WriteWithin

Brian DeKoning - Director, Business Development & New Media, Vital Design

Brian works for Vital Design, a creative agency in Portsmouth, NH where he heads business development and social media offerings. Brian is an organizer for Social Media Club New Hampshire, a co-founder of Portsmouth Foursquare Day, and an avid Internet user. Prior to becoming a social media nerd, he was a newspaper reporter. Follow Brian on Twitter: @DeKoning and on Google+ http://gplus.to/DeKoning.

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