We need to harness the power of social media to build a campaign to create awareness on child rights especially this year as we mark 30th year of signing of The Convention on the rights of the child. For doing so it is important we learn about it and use it, said Nirmala Buch, President Child Rights Observatory.
She was speaking at Social Media meet held at Bhopal today for civil society organisations.
The meet was organized by Child Rights Observatory in partnership with UNICEF.
Participants included members of civil society organizations namely Child Rights Observatory, Vasudha Sanasthan, Synergy Sanasthan, Sky Social, Sandhiya, Students of Bhopal School of Social Work, members of district child rights forum from Gwalior.
Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh guided the participants on how to use and engage on various social media channels particularly twitter, instagram and facebook.
He took the participants through hands-on session on the use of twitter, and as to what are advantages and difference between various channels, how one can optimize each channel.
RJ Pihu of BigFM spoke on what works on Instagram, Instagram stories, and facebook pages, and the network and content, which is imporrtant.
Ratan Singh of Bhopalinfo spoke on the need of building a strategy for instagram and facebook and how we as civil society organization make our posts reachable.