One of the things that we’ve been talking about in class is social entrepreneurship. We’ve mostly dealt with organizations that use the internet to connect people with organizations or raise money for that organization. However, blogging about the organization can be just as helpful as it build awareness. Many of these organizations are in a start-up phase spending most of the time and efforts on raising capital to launch their programs or building projects. Sometimes informing and updating the people interested in that organization gets last priority. Take for example Chestnut Mountain Ranch, http://chestnutmountainranch.com/ , a home for troubled boys in West Virginia who are in the building phase of their organization. I’m helping them with some marketing aspects for another class. The Ranch has done a good job so far by having their director go on speaking tours, utilizing Facebook well (Here’s their page if you want to check it out: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=lf#!/group.php?gid=16074778555&ref=ts), and gathering help from their community. However, the website could be updated more frequently to let people interested in helping know what needs done still. If someone would blog on their website about what is being done each week or month and what still needs done, that could be a huge help for them.
What about you? Do you know of any organizations that could use a little help from social blogging?
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