Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In this post, I'm going to take a deeper dive into the actual work tasks of a wiki gardener - it is a bit more than simply weeding. This might be good candidates for case studies. I do this in several ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

That's why we're asking you to share your case study so we can feature it on our SXSWi panel. And the best part - We'll choose three case studies to be featured at our SXSWi session and, of course, add the information to the WeAreMedia Wiki. Submit your case study here. We want to know about it.

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JULY 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I followed up with Laura and have her case study below. Case study: Chain Reaction. is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning. Earlier this Fall, I got a message from Laura on the Chain Reaction network (on Ning) that told members the group would be moving to another platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Doing a living case study with Wendy Harman provided a chance to catch up her current practice. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. That's why I'm making the wiki full of tools - so it'll be super easy for anyone to do this to support victims of disaster. That was useful considering our time crunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. . I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. See my other posts on social media policy. Social Media Policies.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

Check out the great examples/case studies! Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. But it’s lacking in certain parts of the world.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Jeff Pryor and Alexandra Mitchell from Pathfinder Solutions shared some specific case studies about how 30 nonprofits in Colorado are measuring the ROI of Social Media, specifically what they are learning from some preliminary research results. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. . Want to write a mini case study or guest post, please sign up here or leave a comment if you'd like to do an interview. The Smithsonian is an excellent example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. However, it is important to have a mix – examples from other fields and countries. If participants can see themselves in the case studies and examples, there is less resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). How to identify and do more case studies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Six lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0.). Wiki participants have been very busy bees! Here's some tips and warnings from Wiki participants: 1. Alex Berger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

The NTEN We Are Media Wiki is a like a busy bee cafe. More information at the wiki. Photo by Cbcastro. Well, I am terrified and allergic to bees, so I just couldn't use a photo of a real bee without freaking out. and the busy bee cafe provided a nice metaphor.)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

link] is a climate change wiki. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link]. Kinda technical, but for any nerds the drupal.org profile of TckTckTck is worth a look [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. You can dig deeper into the details over at the wiki as each participant shared a one-page “lab report.&# The experiments were very focused initial forays into social media. Participants go off and work on their experiments. There was also one-on-one coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. So for my panel, I thought why not a case study slam, a play on the poetry slam format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

(One series of posts that he did that I love are his one-page guides like this one about wikis.) Read the full post here : Tim, I'd love to see the case study you describe in your post! He tweeted this morning about some quick reflections on social media ROI: To know ROI of social media compare to paper base outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

wiki name ( done ). replace old name on the text in the wiki (need some help!). re-do the screencasts on the wiki (will redo over the weekend. Stuff to change: logo (done). get domain name (done - wearemedia.org ). change slideshare group name ( done ). change the name of the google group ( done ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Project coordination on wikis. It's hard to learn from colleagues when everything is completed and spit-polished into a case study or conference session. And for students who mostly experience completed projects through packaged case studies, this kind of access may increase understanding about how the sausage is made.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

For each topic respondents were interested in, we also asked about how they would like to receive that information: short blog posts, moderated forums, short or long articles, case studies, multimedia, or webinars. Community Wiki. About 40% of respondents said longer, in-depth articles and webinars were also useful. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

The inspiration for some of the ideas in this module came from Chris Brogan , CCTV's VT Nonprofit Tools Wiki and a question raised by Nancy Schwartz in the first module. To understand how to best link your social media strategy with your organization's "traditional" Internet/marketing communications plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits. NPTech Twitter Group is a list of 263 nonprofit technology geeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

All this will be shared through a lively mix of discussion and case studies. As promised, here are some of my collections of posts/resources on this topic: Social Media Listening Bootcamp Wiki (my personal learning space) Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt WeAreMedia Wiki Considering the ROI Listening Tool Box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

In the last four weeks, the community has shared tips, resources, and case studies to create four awesome tactical modules: Listening is the first step. Help build this module by visiting the wiki and share what you know! Participating in the conversation. Sharing Your Story Social Media Style. The module page is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Curated by NTEN, the community will worked in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. So, what's my role in all of this? We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to change the world. I'm the first to admit that I have consumed way too much of the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Specifically, the workshop goals were: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. The game wiki is here. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

The main features cover task management, bug tracking, timeline visualizations, digital backlogs, task boards, burndown charts , project wikis, expense management, and time tracking, as well as document sharing and other collaboration tools. Read product reviews and case studies, watch software tutorials, and try to demo the actual product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. Help us flesh out the Listening section by answering these questions on the wiki: What are some basic beginner steps for listening? My Listening Ears, Flickr Photo by niclindh. Why listening?

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