ASOUSA CONNECT 2.0

20 20 REPORT: ASOUSA CONNECT 2.0 DIGITAL STRATEGY

PROPOSAL PRESENTED BY: Carolina Cabezas Cerón YAP 2009, ECA 2011 Y 2015, IVLP 2017 ASOUSA and GEN leader General Director Youth Colombian Leaders Foundation Cel: 3127772818 Email: carolina327@yahoo.com

REPORT: ASOUSA CONNECT 2.0 DIGITAL STRATEGY The ASOUSA CONNECT Digital Strategy is a virtual meeting - space where alumni of the different programs sponsored by the United States Embassy in Colombia, shared experiences, knowledge and talents through virtual participation following the strategy ASOUSA CONNECT previously implemented, with the intention of reconnecting and positioning ASOUSA as the interaction channels for all Alumni in Colombia. This proposal had 4 approaches to energize the network and promote the participation of

the page showed different insights having the highest peak of 63.000 people reached and 4.700 post engagement, which was the initial intention of reconnecting ASOUSA as the interaction channels for the alumni in the ASOUSA network. During the implementation of the strategy,

all Alumni in Colombia.

APPROACH NO.1 VIRTUAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FAIR The virtual entrepreneurship fair, was an open invitation to entrepreneurs of the ASOUSA network. They shared their initiatives and projects with the aim of promoting and boosting their economies through the ASOUSA platform. The alumni interested interacted through a Facebook live session with the audience and showed their entrepreneurship initiatives. At the end, a virtual certificate of appreciation and

participation

in

this

space

was

sent.

12

participated but only 7 accepted the invitation.

entrepreneurs

answered

the

survey

and

wanted

to

Few comments during the sessions

APPROACH NO.2 TALENT SHOWCASE A talent contest was an excellent excuse to interact with alumni network. The contest was conducted during the thanksgiving meeting agreed with Rachel Wilson the alumni coordinator, having a winner. the alumni had the opportunity to participate and share their artistic and cultural gifts through 1-minute videos or photo that were presented during the meeting. The participants of the thanksgiving voted and chose one winner who was Yosa Trillos, alumni from Bucaramanga. She

got as a prize items

branded ASOUSA (a jaacket, personalized agenda and a bagpack) initially the prize was planned for one

month

of

an

english

advance

course

with

the

binational

center

but

the

winner

won

the

participation for the CCIP and she was not going to be in the city, that is why with Rachel Wilson agreed to deliver the item mentioned before. the winner will get her prize at the end of december 2020.

APPROACH NO. 3 FACEBOOK LIVE TALKS Outstanding alumni in various topics and diverse programs were invited to share interesting information about

them,

association

their

with

lives

other

and Latino

their

activism

American

in

Colombia

associations.

and

international

International

guests

level from

connecting Ecuador,

our

Bolivia,

Guatemala and Argentina participated in this talk that took place as a Facebook live session. These sessions lasted about 40 to 60 minutes. The objective was to reach guests from various programs, and regions. Each alumni was connected from their homes using a zoom pro account, which was linked to ASOUSA's Facebook live channel. The aim is to boost the association's Facebook account and invite other alumni in Colombia and abroad to share their knowledge through this international networks of Global Exchange Network GEN. A virtual certificate of appreciation and participation in this space was sent.

The sessions lead by Colombian alumni were:

The

international

guest

from

Bolivia

and

Ecuador

lead

the

sessions

as

Youth

Ambassadors.

One

important connections to highlight was the fact that after Francisco Abad participation in the session he invited to Youth Colombian Leaders foundation to nominate 7 entrepreneurs to the Global Change Maker boot camp 2020, where 4 alumni (3 AWE and 1 MLK) participated in this training promoted by CODEIS. The participants also get the opportunity to take a 3 months training coursefor

with CODEIS

for the 2021.

following the international linkage and the intention to strength a LATAM alumni network with the associations

from

Argentina,

Chile,

Guatemala

and

Colombia

two

sessions

were

carry

out

and

promoted simultaneously. In 2021 this union will continue and hopefully strengthen integrating new alumni associations in the region.

APPROACH NO. 4 I AM ASOUSA AND YOU? With Promotional material (200 T-shirts, 200 caps) sent through the Binational Centers to reach out some alumni and cheer them to participate and sharing their experiences in the U.S programs in I AM ASOUSA videos with the intention to recognize and invite alumni to maintain a close relationship with ASOUSA events and the promotion of the different programs in Colombia and keep the connection with the association. 42 alumni participated in the videos. The binational centers from Armenia and Cali

did

not

participate

nor

sent

videos.

https://www.facebook.com/exbecarioscolombianos

SURVEY

All

the

videos

are

saved

in

A survey was impemented and the participants showed that the 85%follow the ASOUSA FB page and the 78,6% found the approach interesting, the

No. the

1

very

78,6%

approach

No.

2

found very

interesting, the 75% found the approach interesting

No. and

3

very 17,9%

interesting.

The approach No.4 the 78,6 found the asousa videos very interesting and the 21,4% found it interesting. aditional the information posted aboutother oportunities with the state department was found very interesting by the 78,6%. For the 2021 one the clasification of priorities for the page according to the participants was facebook live sessions with alumnus 85,7%, Entrepreneurship fair 75%, ASOUSA Videos 60,7% and the talent show 57,1%. the 7.1% askedfor webinars about convocatories and requierements to participate in U.S State Department programs

Following the intention to connect and keep all the ASOUSA network updated with the exchange programs sponsor by the U.S Department of State and from the International Echange Alumni, we got according to Facebook a fan badges for keeping active, sharing their videos and post in the ASOUSA Facebook page.