Social Media Blueprints: Steal these Ideas!

By Jamie on December 14, 2009 | 1079No Commentshttp://think-social.org/social-media-blueprints-steal-these-ideas.htmSocial+Media+Blueprints%3A++Steal+these+Ideas%212009-12-14+17%3A25%3A29Jamie

With a wink and a nod to yippie culture jammer Abbie Hoffman who famously wrote Steal this Book in 1970 which went on to become one of the most widely banned and widely read books of its time  we at ThinkSocial want you to Steal these Ideas.

Luckily for causes ranging from education to health to the environment  many of you already are stealing ideas, language, applications and emerging best practices in social media for the public interest with impressive early results.

In the ThinkSocial Blueprint we just released with your help we have taken a first step at identifying the mostpromising developments in social media and are sharing the emerging lexicon and frameworks that can help all of us scale what is working well. In the coming days we will be breaking the report down and sharing specific concepts individually. This should help them be more digestible, allow us to update each concept with new developments, and stimulate more conversation and feedback.

Here is a list of all the ten concepts we will be featuring in the coming weeks:

• Active Witnesses/ Active Witnessing
• Social Loops/ Social Looping
• Social Production/ Mass Collaboration
• Social Alignment/ Social Aligning
• Social Transactions/ Social Transacting
• Flash Activism/Instant Mobile Organizing
• Internet Censoring and Monitoring
• Causecasting
• Open Government/ Open Source Government
• Leapfrogging & Digital Divide 2.0

We will also begin to more regulary share links to new developments in social media for public purpose — so if you have developments that youbelieve are important please share them.