A Charity Social Media Toolkit has been produced by Skills Platform and Zoe Amar Communications. It features case studies and insights from Breast Cancer Care, Fawcett Society, NCVO, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and others.
Employment relations experts Acas feature under ‘Resources’ rather than ‘Admin’ for a change.
The news release ‘New Acas research reveals that employers have fears around social media use in the workplace‘ is based on a new research paper ‘Going Digital? Harnessing Social Media for Employee Voice’ (download it via their news items).
Some research items on voluntary sector networks, social media use and animated sector stats.
New from Third Sector Research Centre is ‘The Story of G:Up; a regional third sector network’. The working paper provides a critical reflection on the story of G:Up, a regional infrastructure network which aimed to support voluntary organisations working with children and young people in the West Midlands, which was funded from 2003 to 2012.
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Three short linked guides on the fundamentals of a social media strategy have been published by the Scottish charity regulator OSCR, aimed at staff, volunteers and trustees of charities taking their first steps.
An “insiders’ guide to social media” has been published by sector group CharityComms.
It is based on input from top social media practitioners at a range of charities, covering the work they’re most proud of, other people’s work they admire and top tips. There is information on strategy, audiences, content, channels and tools, raising money, integration, dealing with crisis and more.
Four smaller charities share what they have learnt in running awareness and fundraising campaigns on social media in an article on the JustGiving blog.
(Some readers will no doubt see the contributors as being from medium size charities.)