Marketers for a Cause
- It's a simple idea; We all get together and rally our social media marketing skills for an important cause or nonprofit. This is happening on the day of Barcamp Vancouver 08: http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2008
- In the span of the allotted session time, we will identify the needs of the campaign, choose our tools for the job, and split the workload among all in attendance. Everybody has a role, and if the stars are in our favour, we can launch a campaign that makes a sustainable difference in a very short time.
- Please sign up below and feel free to add any notes, suggested causes, tools, etc.
Ideas:
- We leverage our social media networks while in session to form the ultimate on-the-fly Kiva Team and enable an entrepreneur(s) in the developing world.
- Create a Climate Change Hub for Vancouver - Aggregator of Vancouver Climate Change News, Media, Events, etc. See: http://communitycarbon.net/
- Plan a Vancouver GreenCamp
- Google Map Mashups
- Twitter Mashups - TwitterFeed can work wonders See @VanPoverty
- Sprout widgets for Action Alerts and RSS feeds of tips/other updates
- Voting interface for photo contest
- Facebook Page
- A blog!
- Flickr photo petition (like http://www.flickr.com/groups/starbucksphotopetition/pool/ )
Examples of Past Projects:
Organizers & Contributors:
Suggested causes:
- "Free Geek Vancouver" http://www.freegeekvancouver.org - work to ensure computers are scraped in a way that is not harmful to the environment and provide refurbished computers to local non-profit organisations (but I've not asked if they would want this to happen)
