Creating+Network+Space+and+Social+Media

**Books and Articles**

 * [|WeAreMedia Project: The Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits]: A wiki with a growing collection of social media strategies, tools, and best practices. (Established by the Nonprofit Technology Network and curated by Beth Kanter.)
 * [|Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations]A book that accounts how the new technologies are transforming the way people form groups; and what all this means for our economy and society. (By Clay Shirky in 2008.)
 * [|Cause Wired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World]A book that explores the intersection of technology and social action, through a rich set of stories of online activism. (By Tom Watson in 2008.)
 * [|Technology for Communities Project]A wiki for gathering information and best practices for using social software to steward communities of practice. (Established by CPsquare.)
 * [|Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies]A book providing an accessible and practical primer on social media. Addressed to a business audience, it includes guidance on how to determine which groups of an organization’s target audience are using social media and formulating a strategy for engaging them. (By Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff in 2008.)
 * [|Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0]A book on the how and why of applying social media tools to mobilization. Addresses blogging, social networking, video and photo sharing, mobile phones, wikis, maps, and virtual worlds. (By Ben Rigby in 2008.)
 * Digital Habitats

**Blogs**

 * [|Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media]“A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and exchange links and resources about the adoption challenges, strategy, and ROI of nonprofits and social media.” (By Beth Kanter.)

**Video**
Ethan Zuckerman TED video