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New Study: Social Media Use By Foundation Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Other findings include: More established forms of online communications — e-newsletters and Listservs — are regularly used by foundation CEOs at a much higher rate (65 percent and 45 percent, respectively) than the newer social media tools. What I really like is that you can compare different social channels across foundations pretty easily.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. I have one blog post here.

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. The responses, if you choose, get forwarded to your email, but also are aggregated inside of LinkedIn. Since the task was to identify conferences and create a listing, that's what I searched for.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. He uses Twitter to curate information related to his. organization's mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization. and budget decisions." I've also.

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