Freeze
for a cause
So
what’s all the Ice about?
The Ice bucket Challenge which is also called
the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge ,Is a freezey activity were it contains dumping
icy water over your head, it helps to create awareness of the disease
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as ALS or the Lou Gehrig`s Disease.
How to join into this Icy Experience you ask? You will first be nominated by
friends/enemy just kidding. You will have 24 hours to take part in this cold
experience and take video footage of yourself. After you have accepted this
challenge you will be thrown by a bucket of brain freezing water over your
head, after you have been thrown with water you can nominate a minimum of three
people to join into this South Pole experience. It`s the participants own
choice to donate or to simply do it for awareness.
How
Social Media made it a breeze for the Ice bucket Challenge Campaign:
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| Former springbok Captain Joost Van der Westhuizen |
Famous
people did it to contribute by funding/donating towards the different causes in
South Africa:
Normal
people did it for awareness:
Allot of people even businesses in South Africa did the ALS ice
Bucket Challenge by using YouTube as their source of communication, some people
took the opportunity and donated money to the different causes . Were other
people did it simply for awareness. So that the message can come out about what
the Ice Bucket challenge Campaign is all about ,and to encourage more people to
do the challenge and to donate towards different causes around South Africa.
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| A lot of the public joined into the Ice Bucket Challenge |
Different
platforms which were used for the Ice Bucket Challenge:
Nice blog however I think that the ice bucket challenge was an idea that was not thought through because although it was for a good cause it resulted in a lot of water wastage and a lot of people in SA participated in the challenge but did not donate money.
ReplyDeletei love your blog. I love how people used social media to bring awareness to this amazing campaign. Its just a pity many South Africans did participate as much. It would have been so much fun
ReplyDeleteI understand were you are coming from Noluthando I think it would have been better if they donated money to the poor people it would have been put to use for the countries basic needs
ReplyDeleteDorianne it was such an fantastic campaign and I also agree that more South africans should have participated in this campaign. It would have help different causes in South Africa also.
ReplyDeleteFirstly your blog looks amazing and secondly the reason people say that it was a waste of water is because they don't understand why ice cold water is used, it was because the feeling you get when cold water is bieng poured down on you is how people with ALS feel.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you Gcina, not everybody understands the concept why ice cold were used , they would rather be negative about the challenge , then to really understand what the campaign was all about. Thank you for mentioning how my blog looks , it is definitely appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThis campaign went viral from get go. Although many people still do not know what this campaign was about, they are slowly understanding the main purpose of it. The only question that remains, is did they donate after taking part?
ReplyDeleteI most definitely agree with you Aya social media made this campaign more advertised I would say. Even though I believe some people did donate to this worthy cause other people did it for awareness wich is still also a very important part for the succes of this campaign.
ReplyDeleteThe blog is interesting but they could have used a different challenge to bring awareness. I must say the power of social media is very powerful and it starts with one person and the whole thing goes viral
ReplyDeleteI think the challenge was great and the fact that it was done over social media was brilliant because it some how connected the whole world together by a simple campaign and challenge.
ReplyDeleteI understand what you are saying Maggie, but they used ice cold water to let people whom doesn't have ALS know how it feels everyday for people whom have ALS.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Chanee this campaign brought the whole world together by only one click of a button over social media , that is why social media is so important.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the marketing of this campaign through social media was a great success because it recieved global recognition which shows how successful it was, however i also think that people missed the trick because one aspect of the campaign was to raise funds for the campaign and not only for the awareness.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you Dillion but you have to create awareness before you can raise funds?Social media made this campaign recognised and made it a great success.
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