White Papers
Social Media, Risk, and Policies for Associations
Published January 13, 2010
Risk management expert, Leslie White co-authored this great resource. SocialFish and Croydon Consulting shared the cost of producing this whitepaper so you can download it for free.
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Description: The purpose of this white paper is to help association executives create effective social media policies for themselves, their staff, and key volunteers. We’ll use our own social media guidelines as a template. We’ll show you the building blocks we used to write the guidelines, and explain what risks each section is meant to address. We hope you will feel free to use it, edit it, and put it into language consistent with your own organization.
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Social Media, Risk, and Policies for Associations
Six Online Community Vendors for Associations: An Analysis
Published October 5, 2009
This resource features six fabulous vendors who are committed to the association community–Higher Logic, NFi Studios, The Port, The Social Collective, Socious, and SusQtech. We all shared the cost of producing this whitepaper so you can download it for free.
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Description: The purpose of this paper is to help you think through the criteria for online community platforms that are important to you and your members, and then see how these six vendors meet those criteria. We have very specifically chosen NOT to put together one of those massive tables with check marks that no one outside of the IT department can actually interpret. This paper is aimed at the rest of the decision makers—those of us who are less from IT but instead from marketing, communications, government relations, PR, and membership departments, or those “many hat” wearers from small staff associations whose responsibilities cover several of these areas. It’s a great starting point, if we say so ourselves.
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SocialFish Online Community Vendor Analysis Whitepaper
Excerpts: If you’re not into downloading the whole thing, you can read excerpts from the paper in our blog, starting with these links to the six Online Community Vendor Spotlight CEO Interviews which are part of the paper.
CEO Interview: Scott Balthazor, Socious
CEO Interview: Bob Cramer, ThePort Network
CEO Interview: Chris Bucchere, The Social Collective
CEO Interview: Rob Wenger, Higher Logic
