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So what is a cookie?

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Create a social media campaign - part one

Social media workshops and seminars are a popular feature of many conferences and meetings in the voluntary and community sector.

Why?

I suspect the answer lies in the intuitive understanding that volunteering and community involvement is one of the traditional social networks. Modern social media provides new tools for developing communities of interest that extends beyond the confines of geography.
The growth of social media allows these networks to extend and expand. The networks are largely based on the notion of friendship and shared interest and this means that it allows organisations and individuals to talk from a trusted position. This means that within the network people can promote ideas, exchange information and recommendations and provide opportunities for some great opportunities.

Time to Track the Impact of your work - Outcomes

in one placeWorking to improve the quality of lives of service users is what people in the sector are driven by. The problem is translating the stories and the benefits of the services into measurements that can be demonstrated to funders.

Social Impact Tracker is an on-line database designed to provide a solution for front line organisations.

Social Impact Tracker is a secure online database that:

What are people saying about your organisation?

who said thatKnowing what people are saying about your organisation is important.

The speed of communication and the growth of social media means that a misunderstanding or genuine grievance can have a massive impact on your organisation's on-line reputation.

You can also miss out on potential supporters who are making positive statements about you, or the work you are doing.

Are launching a new project or programme?

sample sampleYou are ready to launch or re-launch a new piece of work, you know who your target audience is, and you can identify the stakeholders so now you need to spread the word.

Marketing your Organisation or Events

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Where do you look for information?

Local Newspapers?
Yellow pages?
Search Engines?
Or do you ask people on Twitter?

More and more people are using on=line tools to find information, find suppliers and to market their project.

They want to

I want Twitter on my Website!

TMGPutting Twitter onto your website is easy, once you have decided what you want to do. There are essentially four ways of adding a Twitter feed and each has its own purpose and each has its own Widget.

Profile Widget - this will publish the tweets from a specific profile onto your site. This could be your own profile but can in fact be anyone's account (except protected accounts)
Search Widget - publishes the tweets from a specific search on Twitter, so if you are running a conference or event and you have decided on a hash tag then your website can track the conference

Help people to find you with Google Places

Google placesSomething like 20% of the searches on Google is related to a place, town or county. Using Google Places allows you to increase your on-line visibility.

Important Stuff

It is Free, no cost
You need to have a location: sorry if that sounds patronising but if your organisation doesn’t want p

Facebook pages for Community Buildings

Social Media is a growing part of the communication options available to groups and individuals working in communities in the UK.

graphThe statistics suggest that around a third of people in the uk are already registered on at least one Social Network and facebook is currently the most popular.

Facebooks age profile is increasingly balanced across the population with a growing number of people over the age of 65 getting involved.

5 tips to avoid Discrimination on your website

Training at illuminateYou are discriminating against people with disabilities if they cannot access the content of your web site.

In October 2010 the new Disability and Equalities Act came into force to try to bring together the various strands of discrimination and equality.

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