Landmine Charity MAG Kicks Off Ambitious Poetry Prize Using Social Media

Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Poetry Prize 2009

It’s not often I get the opportunity to combine social media with a worthy cause and so I was rather excited to hear that one of the last attendees on the Social Media Starter Course has joined forces with MAG (Mines Advisory Group), the Manchester landline charity, to kick off an ambitious online poetry competition using social media.

Peter Hartey is behind Poetic Republic, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the poetic arts and humanitarian causes.  Poetic Republic was born out of Poetica, a completely open writing forum based in Central Library, Manchester.

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