RSN Social Media Training in Oldham

Date fo the event: Thursday 24th February 2011, 9.30am – 1.00pm
Organised by: Target Wellbeing's Regional Support Network
Venue: Oldham Sports Centre, Lord St, Oldham, OL1 3HA
Delivered by: Rhiannon Davies, Target: Wellbeing’s Communications Officer
This post is by: Rhiannon Davies

In this session we covered how to identify the most relevant platforms for the attending organsiations' stakeholders, and how take advantage of free ways to boost their profile and communicate online.

The session covered:
• An introduction to social media (We started from the very beginning for those who didn't knwo their facebook from their elbow!)
• Social media In context - how it fits into existing marketing activity
• Picking the right tools for your objectives
• How to use the most popular platforms: Blogging, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook

It was a really lively session, with about 14 people with a huge range of experience in social media, from those on the verge of creating their first social media strategy to those who were just starting to think about dipping their toes in the water by setting up a YouTube or Twitter account.

I've led this session a few times over the last few years and it's really interesting to see the numbers of people signing up swelling each time. Clearly more and more organsiations are getting excited about how they can use social media to engage with their beneficiaries or funders, or is it that they're just starting to realise that they can't afford to ignore social media anymore?

I've asked everyone who attended the session to leave a comment, so I hope that we'll get some feedbacka botu what they foudn most useful, and if they've actually put into action all the brilliant ideas they had during the training.