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Hey everyone! It's class meeting time!

During this class meeting, Lucas, Isa, and I knew we wanted to discuss social media. We only have a couple weeks left of this project, so we need to get started now. We want to make sure we have a larger fan base by the time the documentary is posted, so social media promotion is a MUST! 

Facebook is the platform we chose, if you're wondering why, I covered it in this blog post!

I'm not going to lie I have never used Facebook and I felt so old trying to figure out how it worked, but we did it, we made an account AND POSTED!

One could say we... made it happen... get it like the name of our documentary... ha ha ha! 

Thank you, thank you. Anyway...

Make it Happen

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This is what our page looks like! I'm so excited to see it grow, we are currently working on a permanent logo, but we thought the USA theme would be cool for right now. It was our goal to get the page up and running before the end of our meeting and we did!!

Isa made this "coming soon" post, so that viewers that saw our page would know that it is active and more posts are coming. 

Spicing it up

I want to make sure our social media wasn't just full of flyers and pictures. I really love seeing videos of people talking on social media, it is so much more engaging, so I had the idea of doing a "faces behind the doc" post. This would be a separate video about Lucas, Isa, and I, detailing why we are passionate about spreading immigrant stories. I felt this would make our page feel more personal and make our viewers feel as connected to the topic as we are. 

We'll work on it next class, but who knows if it'll be a blog post... so look at our Facebook page... now... and turn your notifications on... go on... right now.

Another idea we had during our meeting was doing a giveaway for "Make it Happen" merch. To enter, the viewer has to follow us, have liked every post, and reposted the link to our documentary on their account. Their name will then be selected at random and we will send them the merch! We feel this will help boost our engagement! If it works, we will definitely be doing more giveaways, so follow us!

Our social media is also going to be updated with our blog links so you guys can find your way back and discover Isa and Lucas' blogs.

In case you haven't noticed the Facebook links every time I write "Facebook" or "follow us," here it is again! 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557265820408

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Also, I'm sorry you guys, but filming is canceled for this week. Javier had a last minute trip to Venezuela, and I don't think our content would be very good without the subject in it... I promise we will be filming and giving you all sneak peaks soon, but for right now, stay tuned on our blog and Facebook!