What is social reporting?
Social reporting is an approach to reporting on f2f events which aims at making the reporting more participatory, immediate, relevant and accessible. Social reporting gives a voice to participants, which is particularly advantageous in the context of f2f network meetings, like this one – also because it enables network members who could not make it to the event to follow it virtually. As social reporting makes use of web 2.0 technologies and social media, the reporting is done through a variety of complementary tools such as video, text, photos, audio – usually made available on one easily accessible platform such as a blog. Of course, documents distributed during the event are also made available on the blog.
What does this mean for you as a participant of the f2f?
There will be a core reporting team with 3 “full time reporters” and hopefully 6-9 volonteer reporters from the f2f participants who will post texts and photos on the blog. During the event, you will see the reporting team filming discussions and taking photos of pin boards.
It also means that you can share your thoughts and ask questions, hereby actively contributing to the reporting on the event. A few things you can do are:
- Join the core reporting team (please write an e-mail to Nara Weigel before 8 May);
- Visit the blog regularly;
- Comment on existing blog posts if you want to discuss something further or add useful links.
Everyday, after the daily wrap-up, the core reporting team will meet in the media centre to upload posts, pictures and videos. Pass by if you want to contribute a content, be it an important document that came to your mind, photos you took during the event, or a short message with inspiring or critical thoughts.
