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.
Showing posts with label Rhiannon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhiannon. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Monday, 12 October 2009
Winning at Wellbeing
Date of event: 30th September 2009
Organised by: Target: Wellbeing
Venue: Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
Report by: Rob Squires, Wellbeing Network Co-ordinator (Third Sector)
Well the big day finally came and went! Thanks to Rhiannon, who put loads of time and effort into making it happen, the whole event was carried out without a hitch .. we even managed to keep to the schedule. I remember talking to other members of the TWB team as the day progressed, and sharing surprise at just how smoothly things were going. This was reflected in the feedback forms, which showed that participants appreciated the day as much as we did.
Despite the fact that Sue Henry, chair of the Board of Governors was not able to make it, due to sickness, we got the day of to a positive start with an inspiring Top 5 Good News stories. The Knowsley programme excelled in this, and have laid down the gauntlet, for other TWB programmes to get better at providing us with information on all the good things that are happening in your areas.
The day proceeded with a host of different workshops and activities, too many to name, from a diversity of partners and collaborators. TWB projects 'Shared their successes' by running mini sessions throughout the morning, in which they told us all about how their projects are working. There were also wellbeing exercises including chair based exercise by Age Concern Cheshire, and salsa dancing by Shimmey Shimmey Shake Shake. I delivered a 45 minute workshop on Sustainable Funding which was well attended, in which I reinforced the message that we are already half way through our 4 year TWB programme, and need to be thinking about how we can innovate, and work together, to sustain projects when the funding runs out.
After lunch there was an Open Space workshop session, which was an opportunity for participants to discuss issues amongst peers, that were of concern to them. I pulled together a group discussion on practice based commissioning, and we chewed the fat on this for a while, sharing a range of different views. Mark Dorris and Alan Farrier from UCLan, closed the day as our two appointed 'key note listeners', giving a wonderful summary of everything that happened, and the major learnings from the day.
The presentations from the event, along with Mark and Alan's final report will be made available on our new web site very shortly.
Organised by: Target: Wellbeing
Venue: Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
Report by: Rob Squires, Wellbeing Network Co-ordinator (Third Sector)
Well the big day finally came and went! Thanks to Rhiannon, who put loads of time and effort into making it happen, the whole event was carried out without a hitch .. we even managed to keep to the schedule. I remember talking to other members of the TWB team as the day progressed, and sharing surprise at just how smoothly things were going. This was reflected in the feedback forms, which showed that participants appreciated the day as much as we did.
Despite the fact that Sue Henry, chair of the Board of Governors was not able to make it, due to sickness, we got the day of to a positive start with an inspiring Top 5 Good News stories. The Knowsley programme excelled in this, and have laid down the gauntlet, for other TWB programmes to get better at providing us with information on all the good things that are happening in your areas.
The day proceeded with a host of different workshops and activities, too many to name, from a diversity of partners and collaborators. TWB projects 'Shared their successes' by running mini sessions throughout the morning, in which they told us all about how their projects are working. There were also wellbeing exercises including chair based exercise by Age Concern Cheshire, and salsa dancing by Shimmey Shimmey Shake Shake. I delivered a 45 minute workshop on Sustainable Funding which was well attended, in which I reinforced the message that we are already half way through our 4 year TWB programme, and need to be thinking about how we can innovate, and work together, to sustain projects when the funding runs out.
After lunch there was an Open Space workshop session, which was an opportunity for participants to discuss issues amongst peers, that were of concern to them. I pulled together a group discussion on practice based commissioning, and we chewed the fat on this for a while, sharing a range of different views. Mark Dorris and Alan Farrier from UCLan, closed the day as our two appointed 'key note listeners', giving a wonderful summary of everything that happened, and the major learnings from the day.
The presentations from the event, along with Mark and Alan's final report will be made available on our new web site very shortly.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)