One of the greatest potentials of social media is that of logistics. No need for daisy chain calls, large scale meetings, or travel. Just fire up a space in your application of choice and go. As mentioned here<\/a> however, the almost comical ease of joining a cause has potential challenges of its own.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the potential dangers of contemporary social media is the lack of effort required to conceive any sort of cause or initiative. With just a few well placed words or photos, one person can stir a whirlwind of frenzied interest and passion. Yet, just as quickly these movements fizzle out to be replaced with a new interest.<\/p>\n It is of course possible to circumvent this pitfall, creating a true initiative rather than a viral burst. It is my opinion the subtler, more meaningful approach that produces long term effort is what separates a functioning initiative from common social media.<\/p>\n On the most basic level, social media is the ultimate logistical tool. I can attest from personal experience. My peers have at times arranged missing person searches, training, tornado clean up, flood aid, and even funeral support.<\/p>\n Social media is also a powerful potential fundraising tool. In the time a single person might canvas one neighborhood for support, social media could potentially reach millions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discuss application of social media to charitable initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[302,303,304],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic_alacrity","tag-academic-alacrity","tag-class-ict390","tag-class-ict390-article-discourse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logo-class.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lNM5-1Fk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caskeys.com\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Articles<\/h2>\n
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Questions<\/h1>\n
Q1 – Discuss social initiatives vs. social media.<\/span><\/h2>\n
Q2 – How can social media be used to empower a charitable initiative?<\/span><\/h2>\n