Post by hodgehl on Oct 2, 2014 10:54:41 GMT -5
For this discussion, I decided to write about something that my family is truly passionate about, an organization called Help the Children. I grew up in a Christian household and I can remember every night at the dinner table praying. We would pray for the people in our lives, for God to bless our food, and for our sponsor child, Yulia. Help the Children is a non-profit organization that allows people to “adopt”, and I use that term lightly, a child from a third world country. What this means is the new “parent” of this child pays a certain amount of money each month and the money goes towards their food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care. On Help the Children’s website, they state that each year, 25 million pounds of food are sent to needy families. Help the Children also provides free Medical and Dental Outreach programs. HTC sends doctors and dentists with new quality medical equipment to help these families. Furthermore, on February 21, 2012 HTC opened a hospital in Guatemala! This organization has thousands of members dedicated to helping those less fortunate than us. One can find more detailed information on their website www.helpthechildren.org.
Help the Children is based in Los Angeles, California and has a director of social media. The main forums they use are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Their Twitter page is extremely lackluster and only has about 170 followers. I noticed that they do not tweet pictures, only words. Don’t get me wrong, words are meaningful and can have an impact, but in our lecture we learned that visuals are processed faster and remembered longer. I think that if they tweeted more photographs of the children this organization has helped and are going to help, they would have more followers. More people would understand what Help the Children is trying to do and the difference they are attempting to make in the world. On Help the Children’s Facebook page, they have more of a follower base, at 11,855 likes (www.facebook.com/savehelplove). I think this is because their cover photo is a child in raggedy clothing drinking dirty water. It is an extremely powerful image that made me feel sad, angry, and guilty all at once. I’m sad because no child should have to have dirty water and rags to wear. I’m angry because I can’t believe no one is doing anything about this, and then I felt guilty because I am one of the ones who is not doing anything.
The social media platform I wanted to focus mainly on is Instagram. Help the Children’s Instagram is the best form of social media they have right now. They do only have 132 followers, but each upload is so emotional and completely moving. HTC posts photos of children helping one another, giving each other everything that they have, and meaningful quotes. HTC’s main quote is “Save, help, love.” Throughout their Instagram, I see many images the convey feelings of love. I was surprised at first that they have such few followers, considering Instagram has 150 million worldwide users, and then I realized that they do not hashtag their photos. Although hashtagging can seem annoying, it creates more of a follower base. If they use more visuals on Facebook and Twitter, and hashtag more, they will soon have many more followers.
I could not find any articles linking Help the Children to social media platforms, I believe because they did not join any social media sites until 2010.
Help the Children is based in Los Angeles, California and has a director of social media. The main forums they use are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Their Twitter page is extremely lackluster and only has about 170 followers. I noticed that they do not tweet pictures, only words. Don’t get me wrong, words are meaningful and can have an impact, but in our lecture we learned that visuals are processed faster and remembered longer. I think that if they tweeted more photographs of the children this organization has helped and are going to help, they would have more followers. More people would understand what Help the Children is trying to do and the difference they are attempting to make in the world. On Help the Children’s Facebook page, they have more of a follower base, at 11,855 likes (www.facebook.com/savehelplove). I think this is because their cover photo is a child in raggedy clothing drinking dirty water. It is an extremely powerful image that made me feel sad, angry, and guilty all at once. I’m sad because no child should have to have dirty water and rags to wear. I’m angry because I can’t believe no one is doing anything about this, and then I felt guilty because I am one of the ones who is not doing anything.
The social media platform I wanted to focus mainly on is Instagram. Help the Children’s Instagram is the best form of social media they have right now. They do only have 132 followers, but each upload is so emotional and completely moving. HTC posts photos of children helping one another, giving each other everything that they have, and meaningful quotes. HTC’s main quote is “Save, help, love.” Throughout their Instagram, I see many images the convey feelings of love. I was surprised at first that they have such few followers, considering Instagram has 150 million worldwide users, and then I realized that they do not hashtag their photos. Although hashtagging can seem annoying, it creates more of a follower base. If they use more visuals on Facebook and Twitter, and hashtag more, they will soon have many more followers.
I could not find any articles linking Help the Children to social media platforms, I believe because they did not join any social media sites until 2010.