We Are Media - Module Outline. Study Reveals: 13 Best Practices Of Social Media Implemented By. I have noticed in both observing and working with non profits that their uptake and utilization of social media is creative, innovative and extensive and when I came upon this study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research who had recently completed (June 2009) one of the first statistically significant studies on the usage of social media by United States charities that my anecdotal suspicions were supported by empirical evidence. The new study compares organizational adoption of social media in 2007 and 2008 by the 200 largest charities in the United States as compiled annually by Forbes Magazine. For complete details on Forbes Magazine’s list of the largest charities, please visit their website at Forbes.com. They are some of the best-known charities in the country including the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Catholic Charities USA, Habitat for Humanity International and Easter Seals.
Conclusion 226inShare. Developing a community game. I have run the social media game many times now, and it always turns out differently and is always rewarding, and interesting. Basically, it is learning and FUN! Here is a PDF of the cards I used, which I put together about a year ago for the 2gether08 conference. It’s based on the original by David Wilcox and friends, which has subsequently been developed in a different direction into the Social by Social game. I’ve been involved in building and managing online communities for a while now, and it looks like I’m going to be doing even more in the near future (more on that later).
To help refine my own thinking, and as an aid in planning online community work, I’m putting together a version of the game specific to to community building. The game will work as normal, with teams asked to produce ideas around projects or problems which an online community could help solve. Here are the cards I have thought of, under each category. 1. Hopefully these are self explanatory: 2. 3. How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic - ReadWri. Let's say you're a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you're a journalist writing a story about blogging butchers, or maybe you've got some kind of weird baking fetish or academic interest. Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method?
We think there is. Works With Just About Anything We'll use the field of Education as our example, because there is a lot of activity there and we presume we've got more educators as readers here than butchers or candlestick makers. If you doubt that these kinds of steps could help in your line of work - check out this post, where we found the best work-related RSS feeds for Fire Inspectors and Physical Therapists, just to prove that we could. Is this post a cheat sheet? Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field. 20 Free eBooks About Social Media | chrisbrogan.com. It’s interesting what you can find when you look around a bit on Google. I thought I’d look for a few new ebooks to read. I found 20 different ones that might be interesting to you.
It never hurts to get a few different perspectives. In all cases, the first link is to a PDF file, the second link is to the site where it’s hosted. 20 Free eBooks About Social Media Have any more that you’ve found online that you like? ***Update I really love Brian Solis and all he does. ChrisBrogan.com runs on the Genesis Framework The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress. With automatic theme updates and world-class support included, Genesis is the smart choice for your WordPress website or blog.
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