Well folks, I was first runner up for the Social Media Success Summit grand prize. Here’s what Chris G said: “I’m always a sucker for a non-profit, but the winner just edged this one out.” Well, it’s not over yet as the the winner (Charles Bohannan with his impassioned plea ) is giving away his second ticket. In order to win it, I have to answer the following 3 questions:
- What’s your single greatest challenge with blogging?
- How will the Social Media Success Summit help you overcome this challenge?
- How do you envision your success online?
1. My greatest challenge with blogging is speed and time – both personally as well as for the people I’m trying to help. My blog is new, but it serves a consituency that is floundering in trying to capture and utilize the power of social media – nonprofit organizations. I’ve worked in the nonprofit sector for many years and all I hear from this constituency is that they know it’s a great resource, they know they should be doing it, they don’t have the time or expertise, and since the results are not monetarily quantifiable at this point, management and the board is reluctant to invest time – let alone money – in it. So, they are already way behind the pack. For myself, I spent almost a third of my life helping a now ex-husband get his career off the ground and I’m running to catch up too, and running out of time for some personal goals. So, I don’t have the time to figure this out the hard way (for myself or the nonprofits I want to help) and I don’t have the financial resources to invest in something as great as SMSS.
2. SMSS will give me the tools I need to not have to spend months on the learning curve. It will help me avoid doing things the wrong way and help make sure that I do things the right way first. I do know a lot, and I know that I know a ton more than many around me about social media, but I need to leap to the next level in a single bound and not struggle climbing up a rope. SMSS will help me be more effective and efficient in building the resources necessary to help educate nonprofit organizations as well as help me build this blog into a business to support my future family (which has been on hold for a few years already).
3. I envision success as my blog being a key resource for nonprofit organizations in their marketing, fundraising and social media operations while I make a decent living. It will allow me to do what I love – share with others the information they need to be successful – while building stronger communities with more effective nonprofit organizations, and at the same time having a happy, fulfilling home life.
Well, that’s my plea in a nutshell. I would love to have the opportunity to participate in SMSS and can assure you that the knowledge I gain will be distributed to many other sources that are desparately in need of social media help and that are trying to make our world a better place. So please, pick me! Even if only to improve your karma:-)!
