Advocacy and You: Twitter
Now that you are using your Facebook as an advocacy tool, it is time to expand your reach to twitter. Twitter can be a great way to advocate. There are over 175 million active users who are willing to connect, and ready to support a cause; you can make a difference. If you don’t believe that Twitter has power let’s look at all of the revolutions that took place in 2011. The majority of them were started because of people connecting on twitter. Here are some tools and tips to help you be a better...
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Today we celebrate a great man. 73 years ago yesterday Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as one of the biggest voices in the civil rights movements and was an advocate for what he believed in. In honor of Music Therapy Advocacy week, we are kicking off this advocacy inspired week at Greenlight PR with a post looking at MLK and how we can lead by his example to become great advocates. Here are a few ways we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr.: Fight for your beliefs: This is one...
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Advocate – To encourage support for something We all are advocates for something. In fact, this may be a term you hear constantly, but do you understand what it means? Being an advocate means you encourage people to believe in what you do. This doesn’t mean you need to change someone’s life, but heck it wouldn’t hurt; all you need to do to be an effective advocate is leave them with a bit of knowledge they didn’t have before meeting you. This may seem like a daunting task, especially if your just...
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