Crowdfunding is a modern, online and interactive way to raise funds directly from the public – or the Crowd – for your projects and activities. With the advent of Crowdfunding we can now turn our audiences into supporters and funders, by collecting multiple small donations online and offering unique incentives to encourage giving, not only can you raise funds to get your project of the ground but you can start to build a ‘buzz’ around it before hand.
8. Social Media Facts 2011
• People spend 1 out of every 6 minutes on Social Networks
• There are 150 million Blogs online
• 60,000 websites are added to the internet every day
• YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month
• You Tube users upload 35 hours of video every minute
• Facebook has 600 million active users
• Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on
the site
• Twitter handles 155 million tweets daily
• Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
• People upload 3,000 images to Flickr every minute
• Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days
11. Blogging
• Blogging is about branding
• The stream of consciousness,
• personality,
• interests,
• tonality and opinion of your brand
• More compelling and engaging
Use Blogging to:
• Communicate your view point
• Celebrate work
• Provide updates
• Make announcements
• Ask questions
• Start conversations
• Respond to comments from others
Remember no Blog is an island – Connect
13. You Tube
• The home of Online Video
• Other sites - vimeo, viddler and videojug
• You will have to work hard to carve out a viewership
Use it to:
• Set up a You Tube Channel, and brand it.
• Create, Collect and Share video content
• Create playlists
• Tell a story
14. Facebook
• Is THE social connection platform
• Fan pages for businesses with
vanity URLs helps grow your network
• Builds awareness
• Links new prospects through news
feeds of your followers
Use it to:
• Create a hub rooted in sociability
• Upload images, video, thoughts,
opinions and links
• Create a dialogue with audiences to
ask questions to and seek feedback
from
• It is not a one-way advertising
platform!
15. Linkedin
• An online rolodex
• Create a professional
profile and sell yourself
• Include your
professional
experience, fields of
interest and expertise
• Add in contacts
• Helps to widen the net
Use it to:
• Link to people you
know professionally
• Keep people informed
about what you are
doing or looking to be
involved in
• But you need to stay
interested in what
everyone else is saying
too
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