pigeonBuild a communications strategy

The use of Social Media within the Voluntary and Community Sector is just beginning.  For many organisations and people this is a worrying time with a real concern that organisations will lose control of their identity.

There is a danger that organisations, or individuals within organisations leap in without any planning and that the entry into social media is disjointed and fails.

OK, So You've got a website!

That is not enough, you need to get people to find your website and you should make it easy for them to engage with your organisation/social enterprise on-line.

searchSearch Engine Optimisation

Get your site listed in the search engines.  There is apparently a black art in getting your site noticed by Google et al, but, much of it is common sense.

Do you want to find new ways to communicate with the groups and organisations you work with?

Birmingham date: 15th July 2010

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pound coinsThere can be little doubt that over the next few years funding will be increasingly difficult for many organisations to find. It is likely to be the medium sized organisations that will struggle most and there is pressure for many organisations to collaborate or merge.

Auto Twitter feed, Google Adsense were added to the WMICT Champions website in October to see if a website could become self financing.

twitterIn November and December I regularly posted content onto the site and had a healthy number of visitors and as the Twitter feed directs people to the page they were interested in and the Google ADsense ads placed adds based on the content it also created a small click through revenue stream.