Hacking Haiti Donations

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I gave to Haiti, did you? While I did give, it just felt like it wasn’t as much as I would like to or can afford at the moment. I thought maybe I’ll take time to work in a local charity? Reality of course set in, the reality that I’m a full-time student and hold a part-time job.

Why not use what I know, social media, I mean, I did get my internship, now job because of it. So why not try to leverage social media again?

So what’s the idea/hack?

It’s simple;

Make sure to append the #hackinghaiti hashtag to the message if you make up your own. I would like to track this.

Haiti still needs your help, make sure to donate! http://j.mp/7tc6Or #hackinghaiti

This is what it it should look like.

A month from now you will post a reminder to people about the tragedy in Haiti and that donations are still needed. Maybe a person that sees the message wasn’t able to give when it was in the public eye? Maybe they have cash to spare when your message gets posted? So maybe, just maybe they will give when they see the message you just posted, a month later? Now, multiply that person times a thousand and you have some serious donations!

Also, it doesn’t have to just be a month from now, you can post up to 3 months later. Or even better yet, you could repost the same message multiple times for 3 months!

Helpful notes:
Curious if your message has been scheduled? Just add a column, select the service you scheduled it on and pick “Pending Update” then select the account on that service and click “Create Column”, now a new column will show up with your pending message for that service.
Hint: If your message doesn’t show up right away hit the refresh button.

Kinda confused about how to schedule a posting in Hootsuite? The embedded video below should start right when the guy is explaining how to schedule a tweet aka post.

Tell me what you think of this idea and tell me if you are going to take part in the comments below.