Recently it seems as though the whole world is tweeting and blogging! Why should this interest your council? Heres why:
- Keep your community informed easily and regularly
- Encourage two-way engagement with your community
- Make your website the one-stop site for local news
- Updates delivered to your community automatically
- Enagage in a variety of media (text, images, video)
- Integrate your social media with your website
If you're not entirely sure what some of these terms and websites are we've summed them up in a couple of bulletpoints.
- Social Networks: Create your own profile with information you'd like to share
- Send messages (both privately and publicly), upload pictures, and microblog
- Organise events: Publish venue and location details and invite who you wish
- A bit more complex than Twitter. You can also update using your phone
- Microblogging: Publish short messages (140 characters or less) for free
- Display your latest Twitter posts and replies live on your website
- Users can receive your latest updates by "following" you
- Extremely simple to use. Can be updated using your phone
- Flickr: Image and video hosting website, very popular with photographers
- Delicious: Social Bookmarking - store share and discover web bookmarks
- Youtube The worlds most popular video sharing website
- RSS Feeds: Bring together updates from your favourite websites into one list
If you'd like to speak to one of our team about what social networking can do for you, let us know using our contact form.


