This seminar will be facilitated by Karen Ackerman, Director of Mediastories, who will be running a hands on and interactive training to help you recruit and connect with volunteers. Please bring your laptops and login details.
Social media is an amazing, and easy way to tell your stories, connect with your audience and find out more about your supporters. This session will use best practise examples of how organisations and individuals are using Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin to inspire you to use them better. It will be an interactive and hands on session allowing you to try out new things and share experiences with other charity staff.
The session includes:
Basic introduction to social media –what are Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin all about- and how to use them.
What’s the difference between social media platforms - how can you be most effective on each one?
What are some of the best ways they are being used by other senior leaders in the charity sector
How to create more engagement with your posts, tweets and updates
How to ensure you are making the most of your profile
Social media action strategy plan going forward
Creating compelling content using images and video.
Making social media work for you – planning, scheduling and analytics.
Please bring a laptop or tablet and all the logins you need to connect and post to your social media accounts.




