Post by alexandrajohnson on Oct 29, 2014 12:28:42 GMT -5
I think this course taught me a lot about communications and how creating an online presence for non-profits is vital to their success. It taught me a lot about social media strategies and tactics, like how social media reps for each company must choose platforms that work best with their organization and the type of information they have to give, and how to take those platforms and use different strategies on each one. But even though strategies differ, one of the most important things to remember is your news and photographs should create a story. For non-profit organizations, how well they are able to develop a story could make or break them. People tend to donate more if they are able to see the direct effect they are making.
I also learned a lot about local non-profit based organizations in general. Before this class, I had never heard of World Pediatric Project, Smile Train, or Preemptive Love Coalition. It sparked my interested and I loved learning about new groups doing good in the World. This class is great PR for these businesses, and allows people like me who enjoy volunteering to find new organizations to help out.
Because this class was only 6 weeks long, I thought the work load was rather heavy. Some of the discussion boards seemed simple, but I felt like I answered the weekly question, then only received 8/10 when it was graded. This goes for twitter also, there was one week I tweeted once a day and still only received a 6/10. This could have been because sometimes I would retweet a CNN tweet and just hashtag #vcuglobalhealth and not actually create the tweet myself, but I do not remember this being specified in the beginning and I believe it still should of counted because I still went to the CNN official account to find a tweet relevant to the course. Other than this, I had a good experience in this class and I would recommend it to other communications majors! It greatly helped my understanding of social media tactics and the importance of how you appear online.
I also learned a lot about local non-profit based organizations in general. Before this class, I had never heard of World Pediatric Project, Smile Train, or Preemptive Love Coalition. It sparked my interested and I loved learning about new groups doing good in the World. This class is great PR for these businesses, and allows people like me who enjoy volunteering to find new organizations to help out.
Because this class was only 6 weeks long, I thought the work load was rather heavy. Some of the discussion boards seemed simple, but I felt like I answered the weekly question, then only received 8/10 when it was graded. This goes for twitter also, there was one week I tweeted once a day and still only received a 6/10. This could have been because sometimes I would retweet a CNN tweet and just hashtag #vcuglobalhealth and not actually create the tweet myself, but I do not remember this being specified in the beginning and I believe it still should of counted because I still went to the CNN official account to find a tweet relevant to the course. Other than this, I had a good experience in this class and I would recommend it to other communications majors! It greatly helped my understanding of social media tactics and the importance of how you appear online.