Yesterday, I posted some incomplete thoughts on how to use social media for charitable endeavors in a project concept I tentatively called “Charitweets”. I’ve done some additional thinking about the idea and have come up with a few rough specifications.
- superficial details
- “Charitweet” might have to go. Twitter is all that and bag of chips now, but I don’t want to get stuck with an outdated name. It’s also not catchy or memorable enough. Something about being good neighbors, ala Mr. Rogers, might work.
- I thought a pretty cool logo idea (IMHO). It’s the Pittsburgh skyline with helping hands as the buildings.
- functionality details
- scheduling calendar with iCal/RSS feeds and Twitter/text reminders; perhaps Google Calendar
- location check-ins, ala Foursquare might be interesting
- blog for site news, updates, etc.
- mapping tool for finding events; probably Google Maps
- hosted with WordPress and BuddyPress?
- podcasts for interviews with charity reps, etc.?
- event listing details
- title
- venue and location
- map link
- “add to calendar” link
- brief description/abstract
- link to full description (optional)
- RSVP list
- share links (email, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
- expected/desired participants (anyone, college students, computer geeks, etc.)
- things to bring (just yourself, tools, money, donations, etc.)
Thoughts? Opinions? Ideas? Do you have skills and time you’d like to donate? Leave a comment and let me know. 🙂