Social Media Tips

Social media is a great way to tell friends, family and coworkers about your fundraising efforts and encourage their support.

Facebook

  • Set your goal and share it through your status updates.
  • Change your profile pic or header. 
  • Tell your followers why this event is important to you and ask them to support you.
  • Share the link for your personal fundraising page and/or team page for the walk in every post.
  • Talk about your progress.
  • Encourage your friends to join your team, make a donation or volunteer.
  • Thank your friends. Type in @ and their name, it should appear in a drop down box. Select their name to tag them.
  • Share posts from our ASK Facebook pages so friends can see why this is important to you. You can find us at https://www.facebook.com/ASKChildhoodCancerFoundation/ 

Instagram

  • Change your profile pic or header. ASK 5K versions will be added to our Toolkit page and found in your Resource Center when logged in.
  • Edit your profile and include a description about your fundraising efforts and a link to your personal fundraising page.
  • Use hashtags so others can search and find your posts: #askccf, #ASKwalk, #rva, #MoreThanAWalk. You can also use common hashtags like #motivationmonday, #teamtuesday, #thankfulthursday, #feelgoodfriday.
  • Thank your friends. Type in @ and their name, it should appear in a drop them box. Select their name to tag them.
  • Follow us on Instagram at @ASKCCF

Twitter

  • Change your profile pic or header. ASK 5K versions will be added to our Toolkit page and found in your Resource Center when logged in.
  • Use hashtags so others can search and find your posts: #askccf, #ASKwalk, #rva, #MoreThanAWalk. You can also use common hashtags like #motivationmonday, #teamtuesday, #thankfulthursday, #feelgoodfriday.
  • Retweet and recognize your donors with @ and their name.
  • Follow us on Twitter at @ASKRichmond and retweet our posts with message about why this cause is important to you.
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