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James OMalley 3 min read

Overbrook Foundation Reports Grantees Don't Know Web 2.0

To date, grantees generally avoid the Web 2.0 tools, at least according to a recent study by The Overbrook Foundation and Allison Fine examining how (and if) grantees were using Web 2.0. 

There are a ton of interesting findings in this report, including:

  • Overall, the grantees are firmly entrenched in the Web 1.0 world, using the Internet for information, not interactivity.
  • Only a small handful of grantees, such as WITNESS, the ACLU, Breakthrough, and WNYC Public Radio, significantly use social media to converse with constituents.
  • Most grantees aren't using even common-place social media tools.  For example, only half of them have blogs, but only half of these groups allow comments on them.
  • Survey respondent and group discussion participants often felt a "common struggle" in understanding which Web 2.0 tools are critically important to their work and were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools.

These findings are intriguing, especially given the recent article by GEO that states grantmakers are beginning to increasingly use the Web 2.0 tools.  Hopefully, both grantmakers and grantees can meet somewhere in the middle of Web 2.0! Web 1.5 anyone?

 

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