social networking
Social Networking track participant information
Submitted by ftxadmin on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:01.Social networking technologies has a special role to play in strategies for activism or for building campaigns. Technologies like blogs, social bookmarking sites, online communities, tagging and so on can be powerful mediums to build communities, get people actively engaged with your message and to take action. This track will look at how we can strategically and creatively adapt these platforms and tools to build movements and advocacy campaigns.
Trainers
Oreoluwa Somolu (Nigeria)
Christina Haralanova (Bulgaria)
Manal Hassan (Egypt)
Track Outline
1000 hearts - fundraising using social networking tools
Submitted by jenny on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 15:03.I interviewed Nicky from Rape Crisis Cape Town about their ‘1000 Hearts campaign’
-Why did you decide on using social networks to fundraise?
At the end of 2008, Rape Crisis faced a huge financial crisis. Rape Crisis was finding that big companies would rather donate their money to animal or child welfare causes than to a cause like Rape Crisis, because rape is in no way cute, fluffy or pretty. Rape Crisis was also finding that there was good infrustructure within their NGO for big companies to make donations, but if individuals wanted to donate they couldn’t do so with ease.
Web 2.0 and Social Media for Development
Submitted by c5 on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 15:50.The module describes a wide range of social media tools that enhance the ways in which information is created and published, and which provide the means to collaborate and share resources online. It also describes how to take advantage of those tools for more effective networking, collaboration and exchange of knowledge.
