Communications

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Communications

• CHaTS 2008

• Digital Tools to engage your members

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• What you already have

• Generic Email
• Email List Servers
• The Near You website

• This is
• The bare minimum!
• What we give you already!
• What you should be using on a more regular basis!
• Not enough!

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• What you could be using.

• Web 2.0 and Current Digital Tools
• Blogging.
• Podcasting.
• Social Networking.
• RSS.
• Start Pages.

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• What you could be using

• Blogging
• Permanently available.
• Simple to create.
• Simple to advertise and publicise.

• How to Blog.
• Devise your topic.
• Write some text .
• Publish it.
• Tell people you have.
• It simply is that easy

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• What you could be using.

• Podcasting
• Permanently available.
• Take it with you.
• Easily passed on.
• Automatically updatable.

• How to Podcast
• Start simple Choose a topic.
• Write a script.
• Do it with a colleague/friend.
• Publish it.
• Advertise it.
• Do it again.

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• What you could be using.

• Social Networking
• Stats
• Available 24/7/365
• Great, free communications tools
• Build group awareness
• Networking

• How to use it
• Build your panel a profile
• Link it to other panels
• Encourage members to use it
• Publish your events
• Sit back and reap the rewards

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• Your turn.

• Split into groups
• Each group is going to either write a Blog post
  or a Podcast script.
• Present it to the workshop.
• Be judged and or ridiculed by your peers.

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• What to do.

TRY IT! Stay relevant Stay on topic Add some
fun/frivolity Keep up to date Look at the
competition
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What NOT to do.
Be Boring! Be Repetitive Be scared of the sound
of your own voice Be worried that you have no
journalistic skills Give up after one attempt
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Further information and Links
www.apple.com/itunes www.blogger.com www.faceboo
k.com www.netvibes.com www.wikipedia.com www.go
ogle.com