"Hi Tony,
Thanks for that; your youthworktoolbox website looks useful, particularly the podcasts.
We're looking at going with Mailchimp as it's very user-friendly and very much integrated with social media which is a major plus.
I might…"
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I was just wondering if anyone has been able to use facebook or maybe twitter in a successful way to advertise positive opportunities to young people. I'm interested in getting something going for the two centres I run at present, as I feel it is one way to engage with young people on their own terms and perhaps the most effective way to keep them informed and invovled in decision making.
Would love to hear from anyone who's done something like this and maybe what issues they had etc..
Thanks
Would love to hear from anyone who's done something like this and maybe what issues they had etc..
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Katie Bacon on -
NOt sure if know about this, sorry if you already do - be a grt marketing tool- LoveThis helps you share recommendations amongst your friends, quickly and easily http://ning.it/hjuRGO links to facebook grt 4 youth work
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Permalink Reply by Azzam Sheikh on -
I run a several Facebook Pages and one is for a Islamic Musician who is also a Imaam [leader] in the local mosque and runs Nasheed [Islamic songs] classes for children.
His fanpage consists of initially a landing page with a description and a video he upload to youtube [professionally created], once a fan likes the page then they obviously get the wall. Followers consist of 1500 with a lot of young people signed up.
When a wall status is submitted it will attract approx' 20 likes and few comments. It is interesting that if he gives thoughtful quotes which you can term as 'wisdom' then he does get a lot of likes for them.
Incidentally my wife has a lot of friends who are young and she gets a lot of likes from statuses that are quotes from them and in fact many have replicated to posting meaningful quotes after reading hers [just proves that young people are not dumb].
Within the circles a lot of support is submitted in facebook [a young person had a child without his family knowing about it and got a lot of Love from his friends].
Offline I created a 'community champion' program for support in drugs and Alcohol and it worked essentially with peer to peer support and outreach. I believe collaboration online in social media with peer to peer support will have a far reaching impact if executed correctly.
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