{"id":10059,"date":"2026-02-09T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:26:36","slug":"case-study-meeting-the-different-needs-of-virtual-and-in-person-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/case-study-meeting-the-different-needs-of-virtual-and-in-person-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Meeting the different needs of virtual and in-person supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Understanding the differences between online followers and active participants helps ensure equitable access to information and opportunities<\/p>\n<p>Social media has brought huge benefits to Landcare, allowing us to reach a far wider audience, and providing a quick and easy means of promoting our activities. But unfortunately not all of these virtual friends have the same commitment as those we have connected with in person.<\/p>\n<p>We discovered this at a number of school holiday workshops we held over the past year, which we had promoted on social media. Despite numerous reminders and personal emails to those registered, between 50% and 90% did not actually turn up for the event.<\/p>\n<p>We have now developed a number of solutions to avoid such a situation from recurring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Meeting-the-different-needs-of-virtual-and-in-person-supporters.pdf\">Case study: Meeting the different needs of virtual and in-person supporters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Understanding the differences between online followers and active participants helps ensure equitable access to information and opportunities Social media has brought huge benefits to Landcare, allowing us to reach a far wider audience, and providing a quick and easy means of promoting our activities. But unfortunately not all of these virtual friends have the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,81],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-10059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lep-case-studies","category-news","tag-education","pmpro-has-access","category-341","category-81","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}