Suw Charman-Anderson is a social software consultant and writer who specialises in the use of blogs and wikis behind the firewall. With a background in journalism, publishing and web design, Suw is now one of the UK’s best known bloggers, frequently speaking at conferences and seminars.
Her personal blog is Chocolate and Vodka, and yes, she’s married to Kevin.
Kevin Anderson is a freelance journalist and digital strategist with more than a decade of experience with the BBC and the Guardian. He has been a digital journalist since 1996 with experience in radio, television, print and the web. As a journalist, he uses blogs, social networks, Web 2.0 tools and mobile technology to break news, to engage with audiences and tell the story behind the headlines in multiple media and on multiple platforms.
From 2009-2010, he was the digital research editor at The Guardian where he focused on evaluating and adapting digital innovations to support The Guardian’s world-class journalism. He joined The Guardian in September 2006 as their first blogs editor after 8 years with the BBC working across the web, television and radio. He joined the BBC in 1998 to become their first online journalist outside of the UK, working as the Washington correspondent for BBCNews.com.
And, yes, he’s married to Suw.
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Short and sweet blog post this: What resources are available for civil society organisations who want to learn about how to use social media? What are the best guides to blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Ning, etc.? Where would you tell the founder of a new charity to start?
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May 18th, 2009 at 10:18 am
NCVO’s ICT-Hub produced a good ‘how-to’ and practical case studies of how organisations have used social media, which are downloadable from their site: http://www.icthub.org.uk/publications/
May 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am
My advice is always: just do it. start a blog, open a twitter account. Don’t tell anyone at first, then slowly start exposing to friends for feedback. Then start reading about it.
The problem is that too many managers (NGOs as well as businesses) buy a book, get excited, and then task someone to “blog for us”. That just doesn’t work. To understand the medium, you have to be in the medium.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:58 am
This is exactly the question a group of my friends need an answer to yesterday!!
They are trying to save an oak tree in Somerset.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84615665070
Very much a need help now and quick thing, that Facebook group has 400 plus members, but in some ways, so what!!
The developers won’t give a monkeys.
They have started a twitter http://twitter.com/LucombeOak but with 6 people following I guess Lucombe Oak is not going to be in the trend cloud soon.
Can social media networks create enough noise fast enough to make a difference I wonder??
What weight does having x members of a group have??
I’m asking questions, not answerign them sorry!!
May 18th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I have lots of materials on my blog
http://beth.typepad.com and my wiki
http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com
In addition, I suggest you also check out the WeareMedia project - nonprofits in the us - social media starter kit
http://www.weareamedia.org
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 pm
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May 23rd, 2009 at 9:09 am
I’ve bookmarked a lot http://delicious.com/socialreporter/ in research for the Social by Social handbook due out soon http://socialreporter.com/?p=559 It’s going to be Creative Commons, so we could look at how to develop further for specifically nonprofit assocation usage.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I think it really depends on what they want to use social media for. I get slightly scared about people thinking they have to be on a particular platform or social network for the sake of it or to tick a box. I also worry slightly about “x charity is doing this, so we’d better do it as well”. If Twitter doesn’t work for your charity, that’s OK.
Either have a specific plan on what you want to achieve, or just go on and start a conversation.
I’d also point them to http://www.mysociety.org - there is some pretty amazing stuff on here, and pretty much all volunteers.
Olly