Social Media for Charities

When: 25 November
Where: The Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier Street, Dublin 2
Time: 9.15am -1.00pm. (Questions and networking 12.30pm - 1.00pm)  Registration from 9:00am.

Community and voluntary organisations no longer have to wait for the mainstream media to take an interest in their work - they can produce and distribute material themselves that will be of interest to their target audience, as opposed to mainstream media, which must appeal to a much wider audience.

of attendees of a previous Social Media for Charities event explain what they learnt.

You can also watch this video of The Wheel's staff explain how social media works!

Social networks, blogs, podcasts, video blogs

Online social media is at the forefront of this media revolution, and Web 2.0 tools, such as social networking, podcasting, blogging, audio slides and online video present community and voluntary organisations with powerful new mediums to communicate their messages to their target audiences.

The workshop will be delivered by On Road Media, a social enterprise that trains community and voluntary organisations and marginalized groups in social media.

As expert trainers and multimedia industry professionals, they will explain what these social media tools are and how they can be put to relevant use for you and your organisation. They'll give practical advice about increasing your communication power based on their own successful campaigns using podcasting, audio slides, blogging, video, user generated content and social networks.

This workshop is aimed at:

• Fundraisers

• Communications, campaign & marketing staff

• Frontline workers

• Chief Executives

• IT support staff in community and voluntary organisations.

Speaker:

Nathalie McDermot is director of On Road Media, a London-based social enterprise that trains marginalised groups and organisations in podcasting, video blogging & social networks, delivering flexible in-house training to community and voluntary organisations.  She is a former journalist with extensive experience in the voluntary sector.