Ok - here we are at post #3 - a response to the question - "can the Social Media ideas for non-profits we have been studying in class be used for for-profits as well?"

If you are tuning in for the first time this blog has been created as a part of my Public Relations & Social Media Special Topics course #495 offered at CCSU and taught by Prof. Ismeal L. Mendel, PhD.

Thankfully this is a highly experiential class and the expectations for the course include being creative and "hands on" - this is my first blog attempt.  Here is your chance to showing Loving Kindness.

Namaste

So, here I go again - before I worked in the field of IT Education I worked in the fields of Sales & Marketing in numerous capacities.  One of my positions was Marketing Specialist, which can encompass alot.  The dates were late 1980s to the mid - 1990s and even though computers were mainly used as data bases and a means to take an order, we were a primarily direct order house, the principals of promotion have stayed the same.

A non-profit needs brand recognition, so does the for-profit; a non-profit needs a consumer base, as does the for-profit; a non-profit needs to grow to stay current and viable, just like the for -profit; and both need to attract a talented workforce.  These needs, and more, are common to both the non and the for profit.

We have seen already in this course the exponential growth in recognition both non-profits and for-profits can experience with the right Social Media solutions.