"using new media to advocate adolescent & youth people's sexual & reproductive...

Corve DaCostawww.corvedacosta.com

January 2011

New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies

Yesterday…

According to http://en.wordpress.com/stats/

There are 15.1 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com as of November 2010.

According to Quantcast, over 260 million people worldwide visit one or more WordPress.com blogs every month, and they view over 2.3 billion pages on those blogs each month.

WordPress.com users publish about 500,000 new posts on an average day (and their readers leave 400,000 new comments every day).

A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. 

Source: Wikipedia

Build content

Engage readers

Write well

Remain current

Maximize on social media

Be ‘buzz-worthy’

Presentation

Time & Frequency

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

~ Chinese Proverb

Tweet up

Online Twitter conferences

Blogs - Forum

Video conferences

Create a campaign

Messages should be short and memorable.

Targeting both genders

Anecdotes

Increase social tolerance

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