Social Media+definitions

Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share content, opinions, insights, experiences, perspectives, and media themselves. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. - Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

Amy Sample Ward

Social Media+where to start

TechSoup

Razoo

Nonprofit Technology Network

Social Media+best practices

Social Good Podcast Series

Chronicle of Philanthropy

Allison Fine, a nonprofit leader and expert on technology and communications, discusses how charities and foundations can more effectively use social-media tools to spread their messages and raise money. Ms. Fine will incorporate suggestions and questions from readers into her podcasts and invites you to send e-mail messages to her at afine@demos.org. Look for new installments on the first Thursday of every month.

http://philanthropy.com/media/audio/socialgood/

Gear Up for Giving

is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. http://www.casefoundation.org/social-media-tutorials

10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

July 14th, 2009 | by Josh Catone for Mashable.com: http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/support-charity-sosg/

June Holley and The Art of Being Rhizomatic (The Practice of Network Weaving)

Beth Kanter Beth's Blog

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/10/june-holley-and-the-art-of-being-rhizomatic-the-practice-of-network-weaving.html

The POST Method: A systematic approach to social strategy

by Josh Bernoff | December 11, 2007| http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2007/12/the-post-method.html

Ways to Be Human at a Distance

October 23, 2009 Chris Brogan

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ways-to-be-human-at-a-distance/

Over 400 Hospitals use Social Media

by Ed Bennett on October 28, 2009

http://ebennett.org/over-400-hospitals-use-social-media/

How to create a social media strategy document that identifies options and opportunities

Social Signal 27 October, 2009

http://www.socialsignal.com/blog/alexandra-samuel/how-create-social-media-strategy-document-identifies-options-and-opportunities

50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider

August 5, 2008 Chris Brogan

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-online-applications-and-sites-to-consider/

Social Media+issues

Social Media Policies

PolicyTool is a policy generator that simplifies the process of creating guidelines that respect the rights of your employees while protecting your brand online.*

It's easy. The streamlined process simply requires you to answer a brief questionnaire and provides you with a complete Social Media Policy customized to your company.

PolicyTool has been developed by rtraction in collaboration with Harrison Pensa lawyer David R. Canton, one of Canada's leading authorities in internet and technology related legal issues.

http://socialmedia.policytool.net/

Commentary & Opinion: Social Media Can Open Door to Philanthropy's Future

11-04-09 by Larry Blumenthal, director of social media strategy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

http://www.foundationcenter.org/pnd/commentary/co_item.jhtml?id=272300003

Are small businesses chugging social media Kool-Aid?

October 15, 2009 by Caroline McCarthy CNET

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10376022-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Why Your Social Media Marketing Isn't Working and What You Can Do About It

July 6 2009 by AnnaLaura Brown

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-13398-Salt-Lake-City-Social-Media-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Why-Your-Social-Media-Marketing-Isnt-Working-and-What-You-Can-Do-About-It

How Social Media Has Changed Us

Mike Laurie 1/06/2010 Mashable.com
http://mashable.com/2010/01/07/social-media-changed-us/

Social Media+lessons learned

Measuring Organizational Influence In Social Media

10-28-09 John Kelly and Ken Deutsch, Morningside Analytics for NTEN

http://nten.org/blog/2009/10/28/measuring-organizational-influence-social-media

On women and social media:

BLOGHER FINDS WOMEN ONLINE TWICE AS LIKELY TO USE BLOGS OVER SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AS TRUSTED SOURCE OF INFORMATION; SHIFT AWAY FROM TRADITIONAL MEDIA CONTINUES

Second Annual Study Confirms Growing Influence of Social Media Among U.S. Women

http://www.blogher.com/blogher-finds-women-online-twice-likely-use-blogs-over-social-networking-sites-trusted-source-inform

04/28/09

Phoebe Owens

How a Small Nonprofit Used Social Media & Crowd-Sourcing to Win the 2009 Global Giving Challenge -

frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - "The goal was simple. Earn a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website by raising at least $4000 online from 50 individual donors in three weeks. Win up to $6000 in additional bonuses for out-fundraising the 70 other participating organizations." Here's a case study from Jared Schwartz about how Critical Exposure used social media to fundraise and campaign.