And the Winners Are…
Creative Commons via Flickr The Shorts and Longs
If you’ve been following along the #SMEM hashtag since Friday, you probably know by now that our community of people interested in social media’s impact on emergency management (#SMEM) conducted on online social media exercise about “Crowdsourcing.”
Crowdsourcing is essentially giving a problem to the community and asking them to creatively influence or solve the problems. In #SMEMWater, participants were asked to creatively consider ways to bless Charity:Water which is a non-profit agency that seeks to improve drinking water around the world.
And, in the course of one hour, 52 total players came up with 34 different ways in which they could share information and take supportive action in support of this charity. Here is a list of the actions that were completed:
- Shared information with their Twitter followers that #SMEMWater was underway
- “Liked” the charity on Facebook
- Donated cash to the charity
- Asked for cash donations from their followers
- Subscribed to the charity’s YouTube Channel
- Shared information about the charity on Google+
- Posted the charity’s videos on Facebook
- Followed the charity on Twitter
- Voted for the charity in the Crunchies Awards
- Asked their Twitter followers to re-share the information through “retweets”
- Provided educational information about water scarcity
- Played Charitii (an online game) to raise money indirectly for the charity
- Created YouTube videos
- Shared videos across several social media platforms
- Included the charity in #FollowFriday shout-outs to enhance its visibility on Twitter
- Shared requests for volunteers from the charity
- Recommended the charity to their Facebook friends
- Placed banners on blogs in support of the charity
- Took water-related pictures
- Asked celebrities to support the campaign
- Shared information in different languages
- Used email to share information with coworkers
- Checked out the charity on FourSquare (a geolocation social network)
- Changed their backgrounds on Twitter
- Created a daily paper about the charity
- Shared information about the Great Cracker Challenge (okay, maybe this was a stretch)
- Subscribed to the charity’s blog
- Shared gift ideas from the charity
- Identified 4 things people could do to help
- Talked to coworkers in person about the charity
- Commented on news articles about the charity
- Downloaded posters for teachers
- Posted the charity to Pinterest
- Shared the WHO Report on drinking water nationally
I wasn’t entirely sure how many actions could be taken by a group of people, but at the end of this game, 959.5 points were awarded to the players. 107 of those points were “referral bonus points” for people who took action and credited someone else along the way.
The top 12 players in this game deserve a round of applause for their creativity, strategy and thoughtfulness in how they played this game. Here is the list of the top 12 participants:
- @GetMeOutNews = 107 points
- @kazimirmalevich = 91 points
- @mm4marketing = 89.5 points
- @911ICS = 82 points
- @joannalane = 81 points
- @cfeaap = 46 points
- @thefiretracker2 = 45 points
- @sct_r = 44.5 points
- @pyramiddig = 44 points
- @kathyoly = 43 points
- @patricecloutier = 42 points
- @schlepp = 38 points
If you are interested in where you ranked in this exercise, please feel free to check out the Google document that I used to track and sort the overall scores. This illustrates everyone’s play and hopefully the way the points were awarded is clear. When you see “6″ points in a column, that means that it was the first time that activity was called out on Twitter which was the creativity bonus.
Thanks again for playing in #SMEMWater…..I’m not quite done talking about my observations about this drill, but I am done for tonight! It’s amazing how your night can slip away when you attempt to cook some gumbo, right?
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