Leveraging Social Media

At Giveyourbit, our charge to the world is:

"Become a Social enthusiast! Become a philanthropic and an avowed humanitarian! Love mankind and save it in every way! Blog, tweet, share and deliver your altruistic messages to the world. Support various Causes, donate funds, invite people to join in and make the world a better place”.

People face challenges every day! Nothing compares to the challenges that hit people suddenly. These kinds of challenges can be devastating and can leave individuals and families hopeless, particularly where solution is far-fetched; requiring financial resources that are inaccessible. Sickness or disease, loss of a guardian or a support figure are challenges that can hit anyone from the blues, making them victims with hopeless and precarious outcomes.

Giveyourbit is meant to offer a platform to activate collective support in such unfortunate situations, using the power and extensive reach of the internet, mobile technology, and social networks to drive donations. It is interesting to know that supporting a cause can be as simple as moving around your mouse on your laptop or navigating/dialling on your mobile device.

Of course, Social Media gives you the luxury of fulfilling your benevolent ideas. It allows you to actualize your humanitarian plans. It is a humble way of igniting the spirit of humanity within our communities and amongst our people; arouse their souls and make the world a better place.

If you want to support a cause as well, you’re warmly welcomed to the Giveyourbit community and to social humanitarian networking; where your clicks and donations could change many lives. Here are a number of suggestions on how to leverage social media to make your fundraiser a success or to support various social causes by simply aiding to raise awareness:

1. Make it viral: Reach out to people. Spread the word. Tell the world why they should support your cause; explain the cause to them, blog about it, share on your walls in order to send it across the world. Engage and motivate people who do not believe that change can happen by collective efforts through the internet or mobile technology. Crack their false impressions about the possibilities of the internet.
   
   According to a survey, 80% of the population on social networking sites have access to online payment methods and most of them own a mobile phone. So, the world can really donate and help to raise funds towards supporting individuals, families, non-profits and communities in dire need of support. Creating a Facebook page or a Twitter handle can make a huge difference in garnering support for a cause. You could also post some pictures and videos that would further enhance your cause and help people understand it better.
2. Create awareness: If you want your cause to succeed, then you have to be noticed. One of the ways you can be noticed is to write your own press releases and send it to free online press release distribution sites. You can make use of Google search to discover a number of these sites. You and the network of supporters you create for your cause can also post your press release on yours and their social media pages. Engage your followers and even those who do not so much follow you... inform them that your cause is real and not simply a misapprehension; that you sincerely wish to proceed with their support to use all possible media to spread the word about your cause. Get noticed indeed! For more than just publicity, your goal should be to attract attention.
3. Leverage respectable personalities. To engage the masses, an important tactics is to associate your cause with some influential group or respectable personality that has the potential to further strengthen your voice. This is not to say you cannot raise awareness on your own, or by using ordinary people. But frankly, famous personalities or groups can be instrumental towards guaranteeing success. The world dances to their tune, thus it is wise to allow the world listen to the tune of whom they want. It is a worthwhile tactic that can influence and arouse people’s interests towards a social cause, as there is no wrong in provoking people’s attention towards a cause with dire need of support and awareness. According to a policy advisor to the White House Domestic Council of the United States of America and a trustee to a charitable foundation, Howard W. Buffet, “The purpose of innovation is to make us better at being human”. Hence you must ensure to take every advantage to influence the masses; attracting and provoking their awareness and their humanity.
4. Provoke and stimulate your followers: Authenticate your cause; use videos and pictures to provide updates of your case to keep people abreast with the situation. Share them with the world around. It will certainly boost and stimulate the human soul and emotion. Don’t just share on Facebook and Twitter, post your videos on YouTube also. Images will make people comprehend your situation better than just words.
5. Promote conversations: Talk value is a great advantage for your cause, so it is important to keep conversations going, through every possible media. Get people engaged. Make them partake and make contributions in the on-going conversations. Create polls, set off debates and request for the opinions of your followers. If an event or a gathering is to take place concerning your cause, ensure that you always send a request to your followers. Let them work as a community online and offline, lending their voice positively to your cause.
6. Invite “Young Stars”: Welcoming the youth can make your cause strong. You have got to encourage young people to join in. Attract them with shareable videos and pictures. Displays and expressions are generally exciting to young minds. Make them experience a visual display of the happenings in the world around them. Arouse and provoke them to action!

Go ahead right away, make that move and make it happen because it's not just about you anymore!