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I am undoubtedly guilty of procrastinating from assignments by wasting time away on Facebook, twitter and variable other forms of social media so I was more than happy to find another example of how Social media can be used to be productive and do good. I stumbled upon this blog post called Beremedy – #GivingTuesday  and was once again struck by the potential Facebook and Twitter have in changing so many things around us.

Beremedy was started when Blake Canterbury realized he really wanted to help people but didn’t know who to help, or how to help them. The idea is that people can use the social network they have built on either Facebook or Twitter to help spread the word about non profit organizations that are lacking the means to promote and publicize their movements.

It is really quite a simple idea that takes advantage a low cost means to spread word about an idea. Take a look:

 

 

While this example might not be known too well, the use of social media to help CHEAPLY promote and idea or product is beginning to be used more and more widely. Here’s an example that people will definitely have heard about: