9 / 06 / 2009Social Media for Social Causes

Alex Brown’s Passion for the Welfare of Horses as a case study on how to use social media strategically to build a strong community to get things moving against horse slaughter. From a strong mission statement to leveraging social networks through goals (i.e.; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter), strategic choices and various tactics based on experimenting with the tools for hits-and-misses (e.g.; blogs and MySpace), you listen to about 30mn of what I consider some great humble transparency about a small project which became big through incremental small steps.

Interview made for the online magazine Knowledge@Wharton

Good interview content to link with Liana Evans‘ article from Search Engine Watch: What are your social medias goals?