In your project team, you will complete the first draft of your social media campaign and strategy report. Many of you are already working in your teams on Google Drive to draft the report. Every team needs to upload the draft report to Google Drive and give Dr. Messner (mmessner@vcu.edu) and Jeanine Guidry (guidryjd@vcu.edu) full editing access. Click on the blue “Share” button in Google Drive and add their e-mail addresses to the list to give them editing access (you can deny access to anyone else at this point). Post the link of your Google Drive document at the top of your Reflection 5 post. Below the link, describe what your team did not accomplish in the first draft and what your team needs to complete in Week 6. Describe who will do which remaining task and how it will get done by the final deadline. The Reflection 5 post has to be 400 words long at minimum. One of the team members will post the joint answer in the Reflection 5 forum and put your team number in the subject line (e.g. Team 14). So, there will be one post for the entire team, but everyone needs to contribute equally to the work. Posts based on the work of an individual student only will not be accepted. You will receive feedback on your posting from course staff at the beginning of Week 6. Your answer is due on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 11 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time). There are no mandatory replies for this assignment.

In your project team, you will work on outlining a social media fundraising strategy for your client and plan your multimedia components of your own campaigning for your client. For the fundraising part, outline the strategy. For the multimedia component, discuss what you will do for the client, who in your team will do it and how/when it will get done. In doing this, please consider the tasks expected of the overall campaign strategy. Together write 400 words at a minimum about your strategy outlines. You do not need to cite any sources as your answer needs to be original and your own planning. One of the team members will post the joint answer in the Reflection 4 forum and put your team number in the subject line (e.g. Team 14). So, there will be one post for the entire team, but everyone needs to contribute equally to the work. Posts based on the work of an individual student only will not be accepted. You will receive feedback on your posting from course staff at the beginning of Week 5. Your answer is due on Sunday, Oct. 12, at 11 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time). There are no mandatory replies for this assignment.

In our lecture, Google Hangouts and readings this week, you learn about fundraising strategies for social media. For the first part of your answer in this discussion, it is your task to research one nonprofit organization from the health sector and describe its fundraising successes and/or failures. Research two articles that are about the organization and include them in your description. For the second part of your answer, apply the best practices for social media fundraising introduced in our two Google Hangouts this week and analyze which factors contributed to the fundraising successes and/or failures for the nonprofit organization you selected for this discussion. Please see the full assignment description and the expectations in the Week 4 posting on the course website. Your answer is due on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 11 p.m. and your replies are due on Sunday, Oct. 12, at 11 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time).

This is a discussion forum in which you can ask questions to Corey Staley from our nonprofit client World Pediatric Project. This forum will allow you to get answers to questions that might come up as you develop the social media strategy. Please allow some time for these questions to be answered as our client is not a constant stand-by.

This is a discussion forum in which you can ask questions to Matthew Willingham from our nonprofit client Preemptive Love Coalition. This forum will allow you to get answers to questions that might come up as you develop the social media strategy. Please allow some time for these questions to be answered as our client is not a constant stand-by.

In your project team (see team assignment information above), you need to start to develop a strategy for your nonprofit client. For this reflection assignment you will propose a project and campaign outline. In the outline, you will propose the different strategy and campaign tasks and describe which members of your team does what. Consider the tasks expected of the overall campaign strategy. Together write 400 words at a minimum about your strategy outline. You do not need to cite any sources as your answer needs to be original and your own planning. One of the team members will post the joint answer in the Reflection 3 forum and put your team number in the subject line (e.g. Team 14). So, there will be one post for the entire team. Please see the full assignment description and the expectations in the Week 3 posting on the course website. Your answer is due on Sunday, Oct. 5, at 11 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time).

Watch the Google Hangouts (live or recorded) with our two social media experts from Doctors without Borders and the Charity Water this week. Based on the discussion in the Hangouts and your own research on their social media platforms, determine one part of the visual social media engagement strategy for one of the two organization that is a true standout. Discuss what makes that social media strategy special when you compare it to other organizations. Please see the full assignment description and the expectations in the Week 3 posting on the course website. Your answer is due on Thursday, Oct, 2, at 11 p.m. and your replies are due on Sunday, Oct. 5, at 11 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time).