Hi Social Media folks,
What I've heard from my colleagues is that Facebook is the best social media platform we have for recruiting people to come to in-person events like workshops and editathons.
I'm wondering if Facebook has any free advertising that they're willing to give to small nonprofits like Cascadia Wikimedians. It would be great to promote our events, the UW Visiting Scholar position, etc with wider reach than the few clicks that we get to our existing page (probably because only a small percentage of our potential audience knows of our existence). Do you have any tips for how we might be able to get donated ad space from Facebook, and/or get in-kind donations for Facebook advertising?
To the best of my knowledge WMF doesn't have a budget for social media ads that can be granted to affiliates, so I'm wondering what other options are available.