Publishing an ICT Project for Social Change

Are you fond of making an ICT Project for social change but do not know how to? This article may be worth-reading for you!

In this ever-evolving world, a lot of alterations can occur. One of those that are greatly affected brought by these changes are the ways we people live. Since those will obviously not cease to continue, actions must be done in order to positively respond to them. It can be raising awareness about something or, informing wide-range of people. Fortunately, by the advent of technologies, we are no longer required to spend a hundred percent of our effort. By just one click on our keyboards, we can disseminate tons of informations across the world. For example, raising awareness about a contemporary issue by writing a blog, and post in any website. We can efficiently do it by uploading, managing and promoting.

Uploading is defined as putting images, documents, content, or data on the web. Social campaigns are uploaded in several ways: on popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or through an own website. You can do it in two ways.

The first one is uploading through your own website. After conceptualizing what the campaign is all about, is to upload through your own website. It is done by creating it via HTML coding, or WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get). You can use websites like Wix or Wordpress. Instructions are readily available when you register. Afterwards, choose tags for uploaded content to avoid plagiarism. And, you can upload your content if you want to.

Or, you may choose uploading through Social Networking Sites. The other way of uploading is the use of social media. The first step is to visit the following social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and etc. Next, you can register or log in. Lastly, compose your content, locate and click the upload icon, and select the material that you wanted to upload (This varies from any form of social networks). Remember that for Facebook upload, see to it that content you want to upload is set to public, so that people can share the content.

After creating a social campaign and uploading it to social networking sites or your own website, it is important to know that we, the creator, is responsible fot its content. There are management techniques that you will need to consider after uploading or publishing a content. Improving the site/page where constant enhancement of a page or site attracts different audience, thus, improves exposure. Maintenance, wherein, technical maintenance is also needed like testing, analysis, security and performance check. Responding to visitors, by wich, it is our responsibility as a creator to respond professionally. Lastly, filtering, where it is also best to observe filtering foul words and comments.

Uploaded ICT content needs audience for popularization. It is being said that a content that is not viewed or known are contents in vain. Hence, promotion is needed. You can choose to promote it in two ways in accordance to where you uploaded it: website promotion and social media promotion. Website promotion includes search engine optimization where the use of Google and Bing have algorithms that determine the most relevant websites, and search engine submission where it refers to submitting your website's URL to search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing, to be noticed easily. On the other hand, social media promotion can be done by public sharing, guesting on blogs and vlogs, and tagging your friends to make it known to the social media users.

As we continue to perceive it, we realize that ICT projects are not just for nothing, but for something.The integration of ICT in today's campaigns give louder voices to communicate with their target audience and gain sympathy to address existing crises or problems, caused by changes. What are you waiting for? Follow the steps above, start now and be the voice!

References:

Revano and Feria. (2016).Empowerment Technologies. pp.13-133

Vidwans and Amol. (2012). Website Management