1. SOCIAL-CALM. WUKI
“Cultivating grate-for-ness into the everyday”
8 days
23 users
78 gratefulness notes
Purpose:
To encourage gratefulness among
colleagues in small-scale organizations
Tim Pusnik Jausovec | Stanford University | CS377t | June 2011 | timpj@stanford.edu | @timpj

2. Users group I: Youth Understanding Politics
Bio Member interaction
YUP is a small-size international The employees are spread
NGO organizing public speaking internationally, thus, most of of the
and critical thinking workshops. It is contact is online. In person meets
currently active in 6 European happen during quarterly strategy
countries and has 11 employees. meetings. And at workshops.
Users group 2: European Association at Stanford
Bio Member interaction
Is a student-group at Stanford. It The members meet for a weekly
organizes social events and raises strategy meeting. However, most of
awareness on campus. It has 12 the communication is done via
executive members. email.

3. Implementation. Ver 1
Using a Whiteboard either
1.) Write a gratitude note on it;
Other people can “like” the
note by circling it.
2.) Take a post-it;
Write a gratitude note on it;
Post it somewhere the recipient
will see it.

4. Implementation. Ver 2
Using a website
Write a gratitude note on it;
Accessible to members of the group
Notifies the tagged user immediately
Opt-out daily digest notification
Over SMS and/or
Over e-mail

5. Results
23 users
figures 78 grotes (gratefulness notes)
over 7 days
49 grotes posted on webpage
18 whiteboard grotes
11 post-it grotes details
2 users (~9%) opted out of daily digest
~11.1 grotes/day
stats ~3.4 grotes/user
# grotes equally distributed across users
Tim Pusnik Jausovec, stanford university

6. Insights
gives users a sense of Users reported feeling empowered by
belonging WUKI: “I’m a part of this organization”
Seeing what members are grateful for,
increased awareness of task division and increases
responsibility within the organization transparency
Using the white-board was a great prototype.
want to join the Users “hacked-it”, writing encouraging notes
conversation underneath. Wanted a way to like or comment
on the website.
WUKI ver. 1 now being implemented by YUP
sister organization, JEF. Got requests from 4 allows for easy
other on campus organizations to get access to growth
online version.
Tim Pusnik Jausovec, stanford university

7. Contact me Tim Pusnik Jausovec
timpj@stanford.edu
@timpj