This is the presentation I made on Thursday, October 15, 2009 for the SANGONeT conference in South Africa (presentation made remotely) that includes highlights from reports in the US and the UK about social media use by nonprofit organizations.
Why should scientists care about social media and communications? Don Stanley of 3Rhino Media and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication answers this question in this presentation.
He also addresses how to get started with LinkedIn as a first social media platform
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility ...Eileen Shepherd
[This presentation is based on my previous presentation, of the same title, at the LIASA 2014 conference. It was presented as a webinar for LIASA Higher Education Libraries Interest Group on 6/11/2014]
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Why should scientists care about social media and communications? Don Stanley of 3Rhino Media and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication answers this question in this presentation.
He also addresses how to get started with LinkedIn as a first social media platform
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility ...Eileen Shepherd
[This presentation is based on my previous presentation, of the same title, at the LIASA 2014 conference. It was presented as a webinar for LIASA Higher Education Libraries Interest Group on 6/11/2014]
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Constructing A Professional Presence - HEA Professional Presences For Academi...Thomas Lancaster
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Do you want to grow your social media following? Are you looking to make an impact online? Learn power tips for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram and more!
I created this presentation to present the need for use of social media in our cancer center. It is specific to this center but can be easily adapted. The similar presentation is more general and has some copyrighted material in it. There is no copyrighted material in this despite my forgetting to take that notation out of the last slide.
Presented at the Florida Library Association annual conference on April 7, 2010, by Britta Krabill, Susan Ariew, Gina Clifford, and Catherine Lavallée-Welch.
In order to explore public attitudes towards the use of data from online services (e.g. social media) or digital devices (e.g. mobile phone GPS), we are running a Twitter based campaign (#AnalyzeMyData) in which we reminded people of instances of data usage that have been reported in news stories and asked them to rate if they considered these data uses to be OK. In order to produce momentum of public participation we designed the experiment as a sustained campaign in which a different news item is presented each day over a period of multiple weeks. Each Tweet includes a link to a mini-survey which asks participants to respond, 'yes', 'no' or 'depends'. To further motivate continued participation as the campaign progresses, we provide a running update on our website of the response statistics to the items that were previously Tweeted. The types of data usage included in the campaign range from academic studies of social media use, to data collection for product development, marketing and government studies. Our hope is that this campaign/experiment will 1) help to raise awareness of the various ways in which personal data, acquired through online services of digital devices, is currently being used, and 2) provide a large dataset of case-studies with an associated baseline of public acceptance/rejection that can be used for future research ethics guidelines and review training.
ITESO Social Media in Government PresentationBrian Purchia
Here is the social media in government presentation I gave in Guadalajara, Mexico on May 17, 2010 for the ITESO conference (http://www.sicp.iteso.mx/) sponsored by CNN en Español.
Video from the conference: http://bit.ly/biDVtW
Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own PartyAmy Sample Ward
This is a beginner level introduction to social media for nonprofit organizations; presented as a webinar for Lori Jacobwith on May 6, 2010 by Amy Sample Ward. To connect or learn more visit amysampleward.org
This is Twitter presentation put together by Amy Sample Ward and presented to TiE Boston as part of their Social Media usage for Non-Profits panel discussion on 4/8.
Constructing A Professional Presence - HEA Professional Presences For Academi...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation formed part of the HEA workshop on Professional Presences For Academics and looked at the different social sites on which academics should develop an online presence in order to promote themselves, engage students and employers and publicise their research.
Do you want to grow your social media following? Are you looking to make an impact online? Learn power tips for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram and more!
I created this presentation to present the need for use of social media in our cancer center. It is specific to this center but can be easily adapted. The similar presentation is more general and has some copyrighted material in it. There is no copyrighted material in this despite my forgetting to take that notation out of the last slide.
Presented at the Florida Library Association annual conference on April 7, 2010, by Britta Krabill, Susan Ariew, Gina Clifford, and Catherine Lavallée-Welch.
In order to explore public attitudes towards the use of data from online services (e.g. social media) or digital devices (e.g. mobile phone GPS), we are running a Twitter based campaign (#AnalyzeMyData) in which we reminded people of instances of data usage that have been reported in news stories and asked them to rate if they considered these data uses to be OK. In order to produce momentum of public participation we designed the experiment as a sustained campaign in which a different news item is presented each day over a period of multiple weeks. Each Tweet includes a link to a mini-survey which asks participants to respond, 'yes', 'no' or 'depends'. To further motivate continued participation as the campaign progresses, we provide a running update on our website of the response statistics to the items that were previously Tweeted. The types of data usage included in the campaign range from academic studies of social media use, to data collection for product development, marketing and government studies. Our hope is that this campaign/experiment will 1) help to raise awareness of the various ways in which personal data, acquired through online services of digital devices, is currently being used, and 2) provide a large dataset of case-studies with an associated baseline of public acceptance/rejection that can be used for future research ethics guidelines and review training.
ITESO Social Media in Government PresentationBrian Purchia
Here is the social media in government presentation I gave in Guadalajara, Mexico on May 17, 2010 for the ITESO conference (http://www.sicp.iteso.mx/) sponsored by CNN en Español.
Video from the conference: http://bit.ly/biDVtW
Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own PartyAmy Sample Ward
This is a beginner level introduction to social media for nonprofit organizations; presented as a webinar for Lori Jacobwith on May 6, 2010 by Amy Sample Ward. To connect or learn more visit amysampleward.org
This is Twitter presentation put together by Amy Sample Ward and presented to TiE Boston as part of their Social Media usage for Non-Profits panel discussion on 4/8.
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http://www.seattle20.com/startupday
This presentation was given to the Phoenix Chapter of IABC on April 29, 2010. The content discusses business uses of social media, imperatives for nonprofits, creating a plan, popular tools and potential pitfalls for social media programs.
Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit OrganizationsAmy Sample Ward
A presentation by Amy Sample Ward for The 140-Character Mission: Social Media & Entrepreneurship event, Wed April 8, 2009, in Boston, MA, USA. This provides general intro Twitter and covers three case studies of @thewomensmuseum @nwf and @amnestyUK
This is the presentation I gave at the 2011 American College of Preventive Medicine conference in San Antonio, February 19, 2011. For more notes and information, visit http://amysampleward.org
Notes: Social Media, Nonprofits, and the Role of IndividualsAmy Sample Ward
This is the presentation WITH SPEAKER NOTES that I made on Thursday, October 15, 2009 for the SANGONeT conference in South Africa (presentation made remotely) that includes highlights from reports in the US and the UK about social media use by nonprofit organizations.
Seminar presented by Ellie Stringer and Merel van Dijke to A level students in Canary Wharf. - See more at: http://blog.soton.ac.uk/digichamps/living-and-learning-on-the-web-bmooweb/
- An overview of current volunteer trends, including what volunteers expect from both opportunities and nonprofits.
- Features a focus on nonprofits using social media to engage a diverse audience (including constituents, community members, volunteers and funders).
- Meant as a starting point, the goal of this presentation is to help nonprofits begin to explore new ways in which to successfully engage community volunteers.
Social Media Enters the Mainstream: Report on the Use of Social Media in Adva...Michael Stoner
This report focuses on data from the fifth year of surveying professionals in institutional advancement at colleges and universities around the world on how they use social media in fundraising, alumni engagement, marketing, PR, and other external relations activities.
The findings indicate that social media has become a mainstream channel for engagement in eduction. If you want a single data point that indicates how entrenched social media has become in advancement, consider that 46 percent of presidents, chancellors, and other institution heads use social media in their official roles.
Download the report: http://offers.mstoner.com/social-media-enters-the-mainstream-download-free-white-paper
Santa Clara Design: Social Media PresentationLauren Gulde
Learn how to integrate social media with traditional communications to boost your brand. Learn the various social media tools, case studies, why social media is important and ways to make social media integration easier for you and your business or organization.
Succeeding with Social Media in Advancing EducationMichael Stoner
This white paper provides highlights of research into how schools, colleges, and universities use social media in institutional advancement--raising money, building affinity, and marketing the institution. It's based on research conducted in spring, 2009, by CASE, mStoner, and Slover-Linett Strategies, the first-ever study of these activities. It includes an appendix on how colleges and universities use social media in admission and enrollment and four case studies of social media in action.
Tim Samoff - Social Media As Online (Social) PedagogyTim Samoff
Today's online classrooms are becoming more and more "social," as Social Networks themselves become integrated (and inherent) in the lives of our students. This presentation will not only demonstrate how to include some popular Social Media tools within your LCMS, but it will also explain why it is crucial to embrace Social Media in order to become better educators.
A presentation to attendees from charities and nonprofits at LVSC's Cascade 'Engage and Connect with Social Media' Conference, on 13 Jan 10.
See also Laura Whitehead's presentation on 'Cultivating your online community':
http://www.slideshare.net/laurawhitehead/cascade-cultivating-your-online-community
And Leah William's presentation on the Women's Resource Centre's Journey into Social Media:
http://www.slideshare.net/leahmouse/womens-resource-centres-journey-into-social-media
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Hi – my name is Amy Sample Ward and I’m a blogger, facilitator, trainer and general conversation starter about technology for social impact. I am also the Global Community Development Manager for NetSquared, an organization focused on the intersection of technology and social change.
I don’t have a ton of time, and you can’t even see me which could be pretty unexciting, but I’m going to highlight a few pieces of data from research done in the US and in the UK as well as a brief case study.
Earlier this year, nonprofit professionals in the US responded to a survey, sponsored by NTEN, Common Knowledge and the Port, about their organization’s use of online social networks.
By a large margin, Facebook is the most popular of the commercial social networks with 74.0% of respondents indicating that their organization has a presence there. YouTube and Twitter are a distant second and third. Looking at how survey respondents use their commercial social networks, the report found the most popular role is for traditional marketing—to promote the nonprofit’s brand, programs, events or services, with 80.5% of survey respondents indicating this role as the purpose of their presence. Four-fifths (80.8%) of survey respondents committed at least one-quarter of a full-time staff member to maintaining—marketing, managing and cultivating—their commercial social network presence over the last 12 months. Looking ahead, over half (55.0%) of survey respondents indicate they will increase staffing over the next 12 months.
When asked about the size of their commercial social network communities, survey respondents indicated an average of 5,391 members on their Facebook presence, followed by myspace and so on. The communities on Facebook range in size from 1 to 600,000 fans, but 97% of the communities were 10,000 members or less, with three very large communities of 500,000+ members skewing the aver- age. Discounting these three outliers, the average community size on Facebook is 1,369 members. The nonprofit-specific social network, Change.org had an average community size of 243 members.
For fundraising, among the commercial social networks most popular for survey respondents—Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Change.org and YouTube—Facebook is the clear leader, with 29.1% of organizations indicating they are getting $500 or less in fundraising revenue over the last 12 months. Among all the commercial social networks, only Facebook and MySpace were used to deliver $10,000 or more in fundraising revenue over the last 12 months for any nonprofits in the survey.
In the second half of 2008, nfpSynergy conducted a survey of charity and voluntary sector organizations.
Of the myriad social media and online platforms offered in the survey, Facebook was clearly the most popular with 34% of respondents indicating use there. Other social networking spaces, myspace and bebo, had much lower numbers with 13% and 3% respectively.
The eCampaigning Review was just released on Tuesday (October 13, 2009). In the summer of 2009, Jess Day and Duane Raymond analyzed actions by organizations, mostly in the UK (with a few from Canada and elsewhere).
Some of the highlights from the report include: 31% of the organizations in the survey used blogs to support online campaigning work. 93% had a presence on a social networking site, with facebook being the most popular – if an organization listed that it had a presence in social networking, facebook was the site listed, if it had two, it was facebook and twitter. And now, to switch away from data and stats and into the people side of social media…
Social media is a very dynamic and powerful medium for creating and maintaining relationships, as individuals but also as organizations. Many of us have had the experience of “playing” online, finding new tools, and experimenting. And often we mention something new we’ve found or tried to a colleague and we may then try it at work, at an event, or elsewhere. It’s a common pattern but one often too invisible or loose to really follow. This is a case study to bring to light that path and highlight the influence individuals inside organizations have over the social media presence of the organization.
Leah Williams is the head of communication for the Women’s Resource Center based in London, UK. I first met Leah when she was online as an individual in social media, connecting with others in the sector and discovering the “nptech” space of collaborating, sharing and helping each other learn about technology for nonprofits.
She wanted to better understand how social media could be used at her organization and was already in use by other organizations. She especially wanted to indentify ways social media could help deliver on their mission.
Leah started out by creating accounts as an individual, representing just herself, in various places online – she created a twitter account, join social networks and so on. One of the social networks she joined was a group on ning, called the Charity Place – a network for people working in charities to connect and share ideas, ask questions, provide support and more. This way she could both learn the ins and outs of using social tools, but get some advice and help at it, too! She spent time online, making connections, discovering others in the charity and womens sectors and did a lot of listening.
In Leah’s experiences using social media, she identified some crucial ways using the tools could help the organization: Using social media allows for more responsive communications with members, supporters, etc. Using social media helps establish a brand and build reputation by extending that brand out in to other networks/spaces online Using social media means access to more tools to make work more effective (campaigning, research, conferences, capacity building, etc.) As the WRC,Leah and her team are now using: Twitter, facebook, flickr, blogs, youtube, linkedin, and delicious. They have also set up their own social network using ning – as a place for people working in the women’s voluntary and community sector.
Here are some of the lessons Leah learned, and the same lessons are true whenever I speak with organizations using social media of any kind: Be human – include your name and picture on your profile, if it’s an organizational profile, list who at the organization could be talking, etc. try new things, and don’t be afraid that they may not be useful – try them, if they aren’t useful, move on, if they are, expand! as Leah says, don’t think of these tools as cool or just to be hip, think of them as a whole new way of communicating with your supporters, new and existing be sure to know what you want to do, what you are after, what your goals are for social media in general as well as specifically to each tool or platform you use be sure to know your audience, what they want from you, how they want you to talk to them, how they want to interact with you and so on So, go try! See what you discover when you use tools yourself and share your ideas, excitements, and failures with your colleagues.
I’d love to continue talking with you and to answer any questions you have. You can reach me in any of these ways!
Finally, here are links included earlier in the presentation for ways to find out more. Thank you!