Blog+proposal

TO: ENGL 317 classes FROM: Paul Miers SUBJECT: Blog post proposal DATE: Oct. 21

Your Proximity media team will begin next week to compose its post for our blog. You should submit a brief proposal to your team in which you propose a topic for that blog post and provide at least two references to material which can be used in the post.

Feel free to suggest any topic related to your media, but it will obviously be easiest for you to base your proposal on information you have already collected for your strategy report. The proposal should be posted on your wiki page and submitted to me in hard copy by class time on Oct. 26/27. See below for an example of a proposal based on a new post to Proximity: [|Social media for nonprofits.]

TO: Proximity social networking team FROM: Paul Miers SUBJECT: Blog post proposal DATE: Oct. 26

I propose that we do our Proximity blog post on the use of social media by nonprofit organizations. This post can be used to attract a new group of clients who may not yet understand the social media revolution.


 * Rationale**

Social networking sites are increasingly being used by companies to attract users, brand products, and sell directly over the web. Social media, however, can also be used by nonprofits in two ways: 1) to attract and mobilize volunteers; and 2) to conduct fund raising campaigns. Using free social media is a particularly attractive option for nonprofits who operate on small budgets. Many of these organizations, however, do not have the expertise to design a social media strategy.


 * Sources**

I recommend that we organize the post around [|Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media] run by a Washington D. C. consultant, Beth Kanter. We can then embed two interesting slideshows from her site in our blog post:

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