Social media can take on many forms -- wikis, podcasts, blogs and microblogs such as Twitter, multimedia sharing sites including YouTube, Flickr and Skype, and social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. Social media is a powerful and growing tool used to communicate and interact with a global audience, advocate issues, influence discussion and dialogue, and spur action. Strategic use of social media opens the door for country teams to build "social authority" while measurably reaching new stakeholders and build a movement around issues by raising awareness of their development operations, goals, achievements and challenges.

Below is a growing inventory of how UN entities and country teams are using social media to communicate to their key stakeholders. If your country team uses social media tools, please send links or samples to DOCO for web posting in order to benefit our communication colleagues.