Twitter - Facebook - Blog Connections

I have been spending some time the past couple of weeks educating myself about social media. Take a look at this video:

For the past ten or twelve years during our week at camp a fellow Scoutmaster and I run a fundraiser amongst the other adults in camp for the week to purchase something that the camp could otherwise not afford. This year they requested a photocopier that was about two or three hundred dollars more than we are typically able to raise. I decided to set up a Facebook page to see if I could raise the shortfall. I did this a week before camp and raised about two hundred dollars over the goal from a group of about thirty people. Some of the money came from people I didn't even invite to the page. This was a simple demonstration of the real power of social media.

Like many it took some time for me to understand the utility and impact of Facebook and Twitter. (Okay I am still trying to figure out how twitter is going to change things but I have an inkling.) You can now follow the Scoutmaster blog on Facebook and Twitter .

If you are a typepad user and would like to post blog entries to a Facebook page rather than a Facebook profile here's how.

Comments

[Mark]

I'm not sure I understand how you raised money on facebook. What did you do exactly?

[Clarke Green]

All I did was ask a select group of friends who had some association with the camp to donate. Most of them sent me their donations via my PayPal account.

It was really very simple.