Tim, Loretta, Matt, Ryan, Ad_Astra2, InfiniteFrontier
Thanks for the kind words. I use a combination of software like Photoshop and Illustrator to create custom graphics, then import the pictures into powerpoint. It takes a long time and is much more work, but the end result is many times better than what I can produce using powerpoint alone.

Brian, Becca,
It’d probably help if I added a voiceover to the presentations because the slides I make are purposely built to be more generic so that others can use them for their own application. I do this with all my presentations, hoping to offer others a resource to use if they would like to. This particular deck was intended to a) introduce and define social media to an audience who was largely unfamiliar with what it is, b) introduce a few ideas on how NASA could actually use social media to accomplish real work (this is the middle strategy part – the conversation prism, touch points, etc) and c) provide some examples of social media already in action within government. I decided to use more well known examples (which tended to be more PAO focused) for the slides and actually cater the talk to the audience by providing specific examples that might be of interest to them.

Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management Part 1 of 3 — The Wikipedia Myth

http://www.slideshare.net/TSys.....th-1135966

Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management Part 2 of 3 — People at the Center

http://www.slideshare.net/TSys.....the-center

Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management Part 3 of 3 — Getting Started

http://www.slideshare.net/TSys.....ng-started

These presentations dispell many of the myths and they really get to the root of how to make social media work. They were very insightful.

I’m gong to post a short blog on the new NASA Student Ambassador Virtual Community (NSAVC) about this entry and hope that the new recruits read the entry and go through the presentation.

My only suggestion would be to increase some of the font sizes in the stats. It looks beautiful!

Right now the early part of the presentation says to me is “look at all these different places used for social networking”.

Then, slides 14-16 really show how many people are already using it (they are really good points)

At the end, your example slides of how to use social media speak volumes more than your earlier slides with sweeping generalizations on “improving communication”. However, the examples are almost completely limited to examples of social media being used from a public affairs perspective to communicate with the outside world. How about showing some ideas of how they can be used “inside” NASA to improve communciation between different groups and projects? There are lots of these example you can find – many MOD groups are now keeping blogs for their flight teams, for instance. Or photo sharing sites being used for imagery analysis on thermal protection for the orbiter. These social media have a lot of usefulness for people getting their job done too, and I think that’s an equally powerful message.