Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America's Giving Challenge 2009. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field. We experimented with "Conversational Case Studies" and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. That model uses social media a mechanism to give … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories for Healthcare Reform: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned
Note from Beth: We featured Momsrising in our book, The Networked Nonprofit, as an example of a nonprofit that was born as a Networked Nonprofit. They are experts in using social media as part of their multi-channel advocacy campaigns. They are also experts in repurposing content for different channels. If you're grappling with a content strategy, take a look at what they do. You'll learn lots. They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn't with social … [Read more...]
Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?
(Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post. Thanks Geoff! ) Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora, a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Answers. It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware … [Read more...]
Time Management for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals: What's Your Best Tip?
In the nonprofit sector, time is our most valuable resource. It can't be recycled if we squander it. Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them not the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. Co-workers stop at your desk to chat or a colleague asks you to compile a report. Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you. Or if you've developed the bad habit of mindless checking of your … [Read more...]
Using Social Media for Professional Learning: Seek, Sense, and Share
For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche's model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field. Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. To me, seeking represents the topics or content that I'm curious about and that will help me be more effective at my work as a social media and nonprofit … [Read more...]
