Our next quarterly Networking meeting – “IT Matters” for the IT Supporters Network will take place on 12 April 2011.
The meeting will take place at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre between 9am and 1pm.
The meeting is free to attend for any existing members of our network or those potentially interested in joining. So anyone who is responsible in any way for developing or maintaining IT or websites for voluntary or community organisations in the borough is more than welcome to attend.
Our session next week is sub-titled “Social Media for Social Change” and will focus for the morning on Social Media tools, how they work and how to use them within your organisations and communities.
Social Media is a new way of working with your communities, beneficiaries and partners. Social Media can mean blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more. Social Media is about communicating, collaborating, interacting, campaigning, marketing and promoting in different ways. Social Media can be cost effective and quick, but also involves knowledge and commitment. You can use Social Media for your communications, to create a community, to fundraise effectively or to campaign quickly.
Our session will help you to understand Social Media concepts, understand the specific tools – such as Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Flickr, YouTube etc, and you will be able to ‘get your hands dirty’ and try tools out in the workshop session.
Our agenda for the morning:
9am : refreshments, registration and informal networking
9.30am – start of session : Update from the IT Supporters Network – and update on our training programme, our new web initiatives and our “Making IT Happen” IT support project
10am : “Social Media for Social Change” – presentation, workshop & open discussion around all aspects of Social Media, looking at the tools available, ways to use them, learning from each other, Q&A etc
11am : refreshments break & networking
11.15am : Social Media Surgery workshop. A chance to try out any Social Media tools for real with assistance from others. Learn & try.
12.30pm : Light buffet snacks available to end the session – continue your networking or Social Media experimentation
1pm : session closes
If you would like to attend please can you let me (karl@vanel.org.uk) or Vicky (vicky@vanel.org.uk) know as soon as possible so we get the catering right. Phone us at VANEL on 01472 231123.
If you can’t attend but would be interested in the Social Media theme then please still drop VANEL a line so we can see how we can help.
Find out more about these quarterly events by reading information or the flyer for our last meeting back in January.
Any questions or to register your interest to attend, please call Karl on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk.
