Care2 is a large social networking site focusing on, well, as they say it: “The idea is simple: Make it easy for everyone to live a healthy, green lifestyle and impact the causes they care about most.”
Their site offers resources to: a) Get informed about important causes, b) Take steps to improve your life, c) Take action to better the world, and d) Allow their community of users to connect with and interact with each other.
The site purpose and functionality is a great example of the “Social Media for Social Good” ideal, and is directly in line with creating positive social change with online social media networking. Hence, it’s well worth it for any socialmedia4good.com reader to become aware of or study care2.com.
My primarily use of care2.com is to post links to my blog posts or news articles. The Care2 News Network (http://www.care2.com/news/) is kind of equivalent to digg.com and involves their members posting a snippet describing some “green” web page or news article. Care2 members can click on the link to see the real article, or vote or comment on the snippet. The most popular snippets bubble to the top.
The author of each snippet is asked to tag the snippet with relavent categories. The tags help others find the snippet because of course they’ll be trawling based on category tags.
To submit a news snippet hover your mouse over “causes and news” and notice the “submit story” choice towards the bottom. They also have bookmarklets available to ease submitting links. They have code snippets available for wordpress or other blogging platforms, and tools like the addthis button also includes care2 support. On the “submit a story” page enter the URL for the web page, the title you want on the snippet, and your summary to be included in the snippet. The next step is to choose categorization. They provide checkboxes for major news categories that help you choose category tags, and you can type in a comma separated list of tag names. Choosing category tags is of course a fine art - so choose well. When done, click on the Preview button and if all is well click on the Submit button.
The ‘Green Living’ section includes longer articles written by their staff on a variety of topics. There isn’t any apparent way to submit articles for this section.
The “Take Action” section is primarily about petitions. One can launch petition drives, browse existing petitions, and sign them. Care2 members often get emails about specific petition drives.
The community area may be an important avenue for outreach. You can create a meaningful personal profile to post on care2.com that will present who you are and what you’re interested in. That’ll help others find you and then find the things you’re doing on care2. This area also includes discussion groups for direct textual discussion on specific topics. A good strategy might be to create a group (or find an existing group) and become the/a primary person in that group. Doing so could give one quite a bit of notoriety, at least among the members of that group.
Their site offers resources to: a) Get informed about important causes, b) Take steps to improve your life, c) Take action to better the world, and d) Allow their community of users to connect with and interact with each other.
The site purpose and functionality is a great example of the “Social Media for Social Good” ideal, and is directly in line with creating positive social change with online social media networking. Hence, it’s well worth it for any socialmedia4good.com reader to become aware of or study care2.com.
My primarily use of care2.com is to post links to my blog posts or news articles. The Care2 News Network (http://www.care2.com/news/) is kind of equivalent to digg.com and involves their members posting a snippet describing some “green” web page or news article. Care2 members can click on the link to see the real article, or vote or comment on the snippet. The most popular snippets bubble to the top.
The author of each snippet is asked to tag the snippet with relavent categories. The tags help others find the snippet because of course they’ll be trawling based on category tags.
To submit a news snippet hover your mouse over “causes and news” and notice the “submit story” choice towards the bottom. They also have bookmarklets available to ease submitting links. They have code snippets available for wordpress or other blogging platforms, and tools like the addthis button also includes care2 support. On the “submit a story” page enter the URL for the web page, the title you want on the snippet, and your summary to be included in the snippet. The next step is to choose categorization. They provide checkboxes for major news categories that help you choose category tags, and you can type in a comma separated list of tag names. Choosing category tags is of course a fine art - so choose well. When done, click on the Preview button and if all is well click on the Submit button.
The ‘Green Living’ section includes longer articles written by their staff on a variety of topics. There isn’t any apparent way to submit articles for this section.
The “Take Action” section is primarily about petitions. One can launch petition drives, browse existing petitions, and sign them. Care2 members often get emails about specific petition drives.
The community area may be an important avenue for outreach. You can create a meaningful personal profile to post on care2.com that will present who you are and what you’re interested in. That’ll help others find you and then find the things you’re doing on care2. This area also includes discussion groups for direct textual discussion on specific topics. A good strategy might be to create a group (or find an existing group) and become the/a primary person in that group. Doing so could give one quite a bit of notoriety, at least among the members of that group.
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