Social Media Baithak,

11th Sep 2010,

4.30 pm to 7 pm

Café Coffee Day,

Janpath, Connaught Place, New Delhi

An informal gathering of people

from two different fields to

share knowledge and collaborate

for social good.

Social Media and Social Activism

coming together for the first

time; City techies to meet the

NGOs over a cup of coffee to

put 100% focus on use of

internet based social

communications technologies for

the benefit of Non-profit sector

SOCIAL MEDIA BAITHAK - INFORMATION

HANDOUT

An initiative by Dhyaan Design and

Samyukta Media

Our little effort of creating a bridge between the tech and social has received immense

positive responses. Even as we prepare this document we are getting calls from the NGOs

to seek a seat.

We thank each one of you who have registered for the event and have decided to be a

part of this initiative.

This is the first time we are doing such an event in India, also perhaps the first of its kind

social tech event where the focus is on non-profits. We have no budget to organize this, so

we have tried to keep it at minimum cost, the calls and emails we sent out were borne out

of our own pockets.

It has been our effort to individually reach out to various city based NGOs and Social

Media Gurus telling them about this event and inviting them. Given the time and resources

we had, we barely managed to call about 30 of them.

It is our believe that this is an immensely powerful and much needed initiative. We intend

to make it a regular event and also wish to spread across various cities. If you know

anybody who can help us with resources to scale it up, let us know.

NOTES

Please reach sharp at 4.30 pm – Café Coffee Day has informed us that they will not be able to hold seats for more than 15 mins.

If you have a laptop and wifi internet card please bring them along. It will help in live demos, you might also be able to quickly learn a few things as we speak.

We don’t have a venue or snacks sponsor. For those of us who would like to munch on the Café Coffe Day delicacies, the rule of ‘pay for what you eat’ will apply.

Bring along your camera, camcorder etc if you have any, we would love it if you would take photos and post them online. If you don’t already know how to do that, well you’d learn it at the Baithak

Spread the word, join the community – If you are on Facebook you can ‘Like’ the Social Media Baithak page – http://facebook.com/socialmediabaithakIf you have a blog, you can write about your experience at the Baithak. If you don’t have a blog, the Baithak will be a great place to start one.

Tag for Twitter, blogs, Flickr & ors: SMBaithak

MEET THE GURUs (strictly in no particular order)

We know life is a school and we all remain students forever but let us still call them Guru :)

Abhishek is an average geek next door with some interesting perspectives on technology and social media. He is an early

adopter, and a prolific knowledge-sharer. Abhishek has been very active in technical and social communities, both as a

connector and as a participant. He deeply values his indulgence in social media, talks incessantly on Twitter, authors a

few blogs, and hosts an online show on Microsoft technologies. A photography and movies fan, he brought Photowalking

to India and writes film reviews for the kick of it.

Abhay Adhikari is a multimedia designer based in York, UK (but a pucca Diliwala). He also teaches at University.For the past 11 months Abhay has been running the Social Media Surgeries on behalf of the local government inYork, UK.

Vijayendra Mohanty is a Delhi-based writer. He makes his living (or at least a part of it) telling stories. He writes storiesand scripts for comics and graphic novels in addition to working on his own personal projects (a novel, a short storycollection etc) and hobbies (like sketching, reading, studying religion and science). He is a familiar face in the desi internetscene and can be found tweeting as @vimoh all through the week. He also regularly posts articles, stories, reviews, andinteresting links to his personal website at vmohanty.com

Sanjukta is a TED fellow and a Social Communication Consultant, committed to the cause of bridgingdigital divide and bringing social good by using social communication technologies.

Mamta Mamta is an avid user of the social media technologies, currently manages the online communityfor the Shirdi Sai Baba School for the under privileged. She has 25 years of experience of entrepreneurshipin retail, manufacturing of garments, brand building & exports of garments & business management &finance & banking.

Swagat Sen After studying cinema at the Film and Television Institute of India, Swagat have worked as a documentaryfilmmaker for more than 20 years. Some of the significant projects are, a history of India for Doordarshan, a series onthe history and monuments of Delhi, an Imax film on tigers and a four part series on the MahaKumbha Mela. He alsotaught MA students Mass Communication. He presently teaches children of Nithari village, Noida using internet andlinux based teaching tools. For the last few years Swagat has researched and shared on the internet new media toolswhich can have great impact on low cost education and social communication for gradssroots social workers.

Praval is the Co-founder at Media Redefined, which is a Social Media Marketing & New Media Agency, based out ofDelhi. He heads the Strategic Solutions wing. Prior to this, Praval has been a professional blogger for clients like Zohoand was an independent consultant for global businesses for 3 years.

Harish is a mechanical engineer with 5 odd years of experience in social media, content & content-based products,across web, print and mobile media. Presently working with SlideShare as a Product Manager, previous experienceincludes Big 92.7 FM, SMS Gupshup, HT Horizons. A SlideShare presentation ‘My Story So Far’ got Harish thepresent job, so needless to say he has high faith in the power of Social Media

Naina Redhu photographer and a logo designer have offered to cover the event on her camera

MEET THE PARTICIPANTS

Name Organisation / Activities if independent

Disha SethiAdministrative Liaison, The Butterfly ProjectRachit Sai BarakProject coordinator, The Butterfly Project

The YP Foundationwww.theypfoundation.orgwww.theyouthparliament.blogspot.comwww.twitter.com/theypfoundation

Vaidehi KrishnanHonorary Board Member

Women’s Synergy(a non-profit informal group of women on the verge of gaining legal identity)

Sayantoni DattaIndependent activist

working in the field of child rights, environment and livelihood rights(land, water, forests), women’s economic, social, cultural rights. http://inthe21stcentury.blogspot.com

Kuber SharmaCoordinator, Media & Policy

CYC / The Youth Collectivewww.commutiny.in

Bharat Chandra SarkarDoctor and a social activist

A homeopathic doctor practicing in Nithari village, Noida. After the Nithari murder incidents, he, along with some others started a small informal school for children of migrant workers. His vision is to start a small knowledge centre for these children in Nithari to teach them computing , English and other subjects using internet based tools.

Chandni Parekh Fund A Causehttp://fundacause.posterous.com/http://twitter.com/FundACause

Rahul Nainwal Mitra / I-Volunteerhttp://www.mitra.org.in/index.htmhttp://www.ivolunteer.in/

Geetika Kumar GuptaLibrarian and research and documentation expert.

Worked with Center for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT), UNICEF and TAARSHI amongst others, extremely interested in learning how to effectively use the Social Media tools to increase my outreach.

Name Organisation / Activities if independent

Chaitali Bhatia CREA http://web.creaworld.org/home.asp

Rakhi Sehgal National Trade Union Federation

Monu Bana Independent

Vikram Shoreon and Jessica Cohen Center for Social Researchhttp://www.csrindia.org/

Dhirendra Pratap Milaanhttp://www.milaan.in/

Post event report by Abhay Adhikari – Delhi’s First Social Media Baithak

Post event report by Sanjukta – “A great initiative which got equally great response from Delhi techies and social activists”

Wonderful photo documentation by Naina

Mainstream Media Coverage by ‘The Sunday Guardian’ dt 12th Sep 2010 titled “Techies teach newcomers and NGOs power of Social Media”

Join us:

Social Media Baithak Google Group

Social Media Baithak Facebook page

MEET THE ORGANIZERS

Dhyaan Design: A flexible network for interdisciplinary collaborationsetup by Abhay Adhikari in 2003.Dhyaan Design works with developers and designers from variouscultural backgrounds to deliver sustainable multimedia projects forcorporations, small businesses and individuals from UK, India, USA,Japan and Australia. This includes BBC, British Council, Hertz, Penguin,The Human Rights Law Network and Zubaan Books.

Samyukta Media: A communication consultancy, with special focus onIndian non-profits, launched by Sanjukta Basu in May 2010.Samyukta Media is an initiative dedicated to undertake socialcommunications consultancy, training, media outreach andconvergence projects for non-profit and other informal sectors. Theworld is witnessing a revolution in information and media technologiesand usages. Samyukta Media is born with a mission to take this mediarevolution to every doorstep.

Contacts:

Sanjukta Basu Abhay Adhikari

sanjukta.basu23@gmail.com abhay.adhikari@gmail.comwww.samyuktamedia.com www.dhyaandesign.com

Thank you