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...]

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...]

(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...]