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[28 May 2008 | Comments Off | 3 views]

Each summer, interns from around the country visit Camp ASCCA.
This summer, we’ll be doing podcasts using Utterz. I’ll give them a prepaid phone they can carry with them to the activity areas. While taking photos and videos, they can also grab a quick audio interview easily embedded in the camp blog as well as the camp’s social network, ASCCA Friends.

It struck me that this is a very inexpensive way to add one more multimedia layer with fun interviews to the camp’s efforts. For instance, below you’ll see …

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[26 May 2007 | 3 Comments | 43 views]

Jeremy Pepper has an interesting post about social media and healthcare over at Pop PR Jots.
Jeremy joined in a panel with Amy Tenderich, from Diabetes Mine.
From his post, these three paragraphs – in particular – struck a cord.
When explaining social media, I use a Town Hall analogy. From a conversation with a friend, she wrote it out like this: Imagine a small New England town with a highly civically-active community. On a regular basis this tightly-knit community hosts Town Hall meetings to discuss current events, areas of concern, etc. Now …

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[30 Mar 2007 | Comments Off | 135 views]

Facebook is an interesting social media community. For ASCCA’s interests of connecting with college students, it seems like the natural community to engage. ASCCA wants college students to work as counselors, program staff and for internships. So, we’re trying something new to reach them.
ASCCA is going to run approximately 50,000 flyers a day, for three days, targeted at students from the following universities: University of Georgia, University of Florida, Troy State University, Montevallo, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of North Alabama, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) and …

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[8 Jul 2006 | 2 Comments | 14 views]

Alexis. She’s so cute. See Alexis at the Waterpark activities.
Alexis attended Easter Seals Camp ASCCA last week. You can also view a video of Alexis and her counselor Christy.
This is just a truly precious young lady.
Katie and Danielle have been sharing profiles of campers and counselors in their summer social media internship at Easter Seals Camp ASCCA. All of them, about eight posts a day, appear in the Camp ASCCA Journal, ASCCA’s blog.
I’ll be honest, I keep hoping to see PR people visiting …