Share a project using social media
Monday, September 12th, 2011
We’ve freshened up the PLAnet website ready for the influx of new projects joining the network for the 2011 awards. The most important features we’ve added are social media ‘plugins’ that make it really easy to share and comment on projects via Facebook and Twitter.
The Philip Lawrence Award Network has always been about providing a platform for young people to highlight the positive work they’re doing in their communities. We hope by adding the facility to share projects through social networks it will help exceptional young people get the recognition they deserve.
You can now create a profile page for your project and easily let your friends and followers know it’s there. We’ve made it simple to:
- Send a Facebook message, including a link to a project, to friends or groups.
- Share a project with your followers on Twitter.
- Comment on a project and post it to your Facebook wall.
- Recommend projects via Facebook and Google+
And the amount a project is shared, the ‘likes’ it gets and the positive comments it receives are all important. If there’s a great reaction to a project on social media it will be taken into account during the judging process. And the more people who hear about a project, the more likely people will want to get involved, help out, or be inspired to do something similar.
So if you’re a young person making a difference, or you know a group of young people that deserve recognition, go ahead and highlight a project on our network. Then shout about it, share it.
