How to use social media to recruit, retain and recognise volunteers - One hour live Webinar
Announcing an entirely new, highly practical webinar that reveals all you need to know to use social media with volunteers
2pm - 3pm - 24 April 2012
Social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs have a huge potential for reaching and motivating people to volunteer for your projects.
They can also be used to help build a feeling of community amongst volunteers so they keep coming back as well.
That’s why we have invited Jayne Cravens, who knows as much about using social media in volunteering as anyone, to put together a one hour webinar of practical hints and tips.
As the chief social media expert at Coyote Communications in the
In one intensive hour Jayne will cover these areas:
How to use social media to invite and encourage volunteers to sign up to your project
Here we’ll look at how you can use Face book and Twitter to invite volunteers to sign up and get involved.
How to use social media to help retain volunteers
There is a host of things you can do to keep hold of your volunteers. We’ll look at how blogs can be used to build a community amongst your volunteers, how photos on Face book, Flickr and YouTube can be posted by and for volunteers to enjoy and share and how your Face book page can be used to gain the views of volunteers so they feel involved.
How to use social media to recognize volunteers
Blogs, online interviews and facts and figures about your volunteer’s achievements can all be used to tell the volunteer’s story.
Why you should try to get volunteers to manage social media projects themselves
There is no reason why your volunteers can’t manage all of these ideas. So Jayne will show you how to get this started.