Sending out yet another email to your members can be painful sometimes when you really want to say the same thing you've already tried to tell them countless times. We've all been there, either on the sending or receiving end of those messages. But, making something fun that delivers the message means you get to make something new and interesting, your members get to enjoy what you've created and the message is in there without any more of the boring blah blah blah. But, how do you do that?

We're up to 109 case studies of how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change.  Check out some of the new ones.

Big thanks to the folks who took the time to write these up.

Malecare Prostate Cancer Support for Gay Men 

It is the only cancer community for gay men in the world. Being online helps men connect with other men in a supportive, dating neutral environment around life threatening and sexually diminishing cancer treatment.

Arts Engine

Big thanks to Emily Weinberg of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange for adding the 99th and 100th Net2 in Action case studies--Koko.org (yes, gorillas can have photo blogs), and the DuPage Children's Museum blog--and for finding and collecting 33 sites/blogs wearing Net2 badges.

We have 98 case studies up of nonprofits and NGOs using the social web for social change!   You can view them alphabetically, by the tools they used, or on a map.

If you take a look at the map, you'll see that there are parts of the United States and the world that we don't have any case studies from.

Help us fill out the map.

If you know of a nonprofit or NGO using the social web for social change, please take a moment to add them to Net2 in Action, and if you're feeling swamped, just send me the URL and I'll see if one of our Net2Builders can put it up.

A bunch of new case studies went up over the weekend:

Marshall Kirkpartrick put up H2otown, a community blog by and for the residents of Watertown, MA  (they are our Nonprofit Innovator of the Week as well).

Arnau, who posted a nice introductory message today, put up Rural Innovation Network, an innovation network for rural India.

He also put up Inveneo, they combine VoIP, Wimax, cheap components, energy consumption reduction and free-software.

Emily Weinberg put up Stateline.org, a project of the Pew Research Center which has 63 RSS feeds that users can subscribe to.

Thanks to Michael Stein and Emily Weinberg from the Net2 in Action Writing and Research Team for posting our most recent case studies of the Texas Campaign for the Environment, Green Coast Foundation and the North Carolina Conservation Network.

The team lives all over the country, so it is using a Ta-da list to add, edit and check off case studies as they are completed.

I created my first case study here on Net2 last night. It's just a short description of my podcast and a little about why/how I produce the show. I really enjoyed the process of having to think of a concise way to sum up what is often a very organic and changing project for me. I'm looking forward to finding other topics that would make good case studies.

I'm excited to see that people are beginning to contribute content to the Net2 site. It really is starting to shape into the vision that the people with TechSoup/CompuMentor had in mind! Britt Bravo, the Community Builder of NetSquared, is doing an awesome job! She is encouraging and excited to find new content to share with others. She's a great example of the axiom that the success of a team project is built upon the accomplishments of individuals.