Post by caitlindavis on Sept 30, 2014 12:37:15 GMT -5
For online discussion four I decided to look into the nonprofit Susan G. Komen because their mission hits close to home and my family has always been supporters of it while I was growing up. According to the Susan G. Komen official website, Susan G. Komen is the only organization that addresses breast cancer on multiple fronts, so they have the best chance of making an impact against this terrible disease. These fronts include research, global outreach, public policy initiatives and community health. Also, according to the Susan G. Koman official website this nonprofit was all started in 1980 when Nancy G. Brinker made a promise to her dying sister, Susan, that she would stop at nothing to end breast cancer. Then in 1982 Nancy stayed true to her promise and started the Susan g. Komen organization. Now 30 years later it has grown into a global movement that has invested more than $2.5 billion in breast cancer research and community health outreach in over 30 countries around the world.
I know that men can also get breast cancer, but since this disease mostly targets women I think that the Susan G. Komen organization involvement on the visual social media platform, Pinterest, is a great idea to get more help involved with their mission. From our online lectures I learned that Pinterest is a virtual pin board and 80 percent of its 70 million users are women. According to the Susan G. Komen official website, they have a lot of people in their organization deticating almost all of their time to social media and the organization’s engagement on Pinterest includes 17 boards and 448 pins. These boards and pins have recipes, crafts, stories about survivors and many more engaging links on the site, that using Pinterest has become a fun way for all the women visiting Pinterest everyday to get involved with the mission.
According to an article in Nation Now called, Komen Learns Power of Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Fueled Fury, two visual social media platforms have not been working in favor of the organization. In the article I learned that Susan G. Komen posted on their Facebook and Twitter that the organization was going to withhold funding for breast health screenings for went on in Planned Parenthood. This lead to a huge controversy on both platforms that got so out of control the organization apologized and said they will provide the funding Planned Parenthood needed. This is an example of how using their visual social media platforms worked against the organization.
Even though Susan G. Komen use of social media has not always been a positive experience, the organization still dedicates a lot of its time and money into social media. This is much different them the nonprofit we have already learned about, World Pediatric Project. During that Google Hangout we learned from Corey Staley, that she has so many jobs assigned to her that she can only spend 20 minutes a day on the organizations social media platforms.
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I know that men can also get breast cancer, but since this disease mostly targets women I think that the Susan G. Komen organization involvement on the visual social media platform, Pinterest, is a great idea to get more help involved with their mission. From our online lectures I learned that Pinterest is a virtual pin board and 80 percent of its 70 million users are women. According to the Susan G. Komen official website, they have a lot of people in their organization deticating almost all of their time to social media and the organization’s engagement on Pinterest includes 17 boards and 448 pins. These boards and pins have recipes, crafts, stories about survivors and many more engaging links on the site, that using Pinterest has become a fun way for all the women visiting Pinterest everyday to get involved with the mission.
According to an article in Nation Now called, Komen Learns Power of Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Fueled Fury, two visual social media platforms have not been working in favor of the organization. In the article I learned that Susan G. Komen posted on their Facebook and Twitter that the organization was going to withhold funding for breast health screenings for went on in Planned Parenthood. This lead to a huge controversy on both platforms that got so out of control the organization apologized and said they will provide the funding Planned Parenthood needed. This is an example of how using their visual social media platforms worked against the organization.
Even though Susan G. Komen use of social media has not always been a positive experience, the organization still dedicates a lot of its time and money into social media. This is much different them the nonprofit we have already learned about, World Pediatric Project. During that Google Hangout we learned from Corey Staley, that she has so many jobs assigned to her that she can only spend 20 minutes a day on the organizations social media platforms.
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