The challenges encountered with regard to acquiring an online presence.

The challenges that I had encountered with regard to acquiring an online presence are:

• Sufficient support

• Lack of creativity/ experience

• Lack of Knowledge on NGO work

• Time

• Establishing a schedule for the content

• Poor marketing with the content

As anything in life, nothing comes easy, hard work perseveres. I define myself as someone who can always find a way of getting the work done effectively, and one of the challenges in this particular case has been having to rely on others to make this Blogsite a success, which was unfamiliar to me.

The greatest challenge that I had encountered while creating this Blogsite, and social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube) was the ability to attract sufficient followers and gain the necessary likes that I had hoped for, in an attempt to further support this organisation. I never expected it to be as challenging as it was. One can only do so much, and I felt that I had done enough, yet I was still unable to consume sufficient followers/likes. Many times people see and hear, but we cannot make anyone do anything they don’t want to do, therefor it is important to find ways to get people involved and make them want to support, which has been a great challenge. I have posted on the organisations social media accounts, I had posted on my own personal social media accounts, in the attempt to get more people involved, which helped, but not nearly enough.

My lack of knowledge in understanding what it takes to run a non-governmental organisation has limited me to helping as much as I would have liked. The confidence and skills required, and also the natural need to want to help.

Lastly, Time, being able to plan out events, run the social media accounts, keeping up to date with current events, and managing everyday life, has posed as a challenge. I worked through these challenges by using the ORM method, as a strategy to help crisis management. I have created a diary of notes, and made checklists.