Media – Using the Internet

The internet is a powerful way to communicate ideas, issues, and information quickly and easily.

After all, you’re reading this website, aren’t you?

So think about all the ways you can use the internet to get the message out, and use them!

Many local newspapers and radio stations are are online.

And many allow internet users to make comments about their articles and stories.

Check their content and add comments, if possible, to stories that are poverty-related.

Many local organizations and agencies are also online.

If you belong to a group or organization, or if you get support from a local agency, see if you can get the message out through their websites, online newsletters, and e-mail lists.

Social media sites are especially powerful tools.

They allow people to communicate things that are important to them in ways that other kinds of media don’t.

Do you use Facebook?

Use it to get the message out about the Social Assistance Review. Post a link to this website and ask your friends to forward it to their friends.

Do you write a blog, or know someone who does?

Post about the Social Assistance Review, and include a link to this site.

Could you or a group or organization you know post a video to YouTube about a poverty-related event?

Think about all the opportunities available online, and use them!

As work on the Social Assistance Review progresses, we’ll be adding RSS feeds to our Resources page and our News page, as well as links to let you post items on Facebook and other social media sites. So visit those pages again soon.