FREE SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP 2012
The Eastern Region Infrastructure Network (ERIN) through its Big Lottery funded project FERI (Front Line Engagement through Infrastructure) are offering rural voluntary and community groups FREE training workshops on ICT.
Each of the workshops on offer is designed to enable and empower VCS community groups in the eastern region to make better use of ICT and improve efficiency and the ability to engage with service users, funders and stakeholders, volunteers, etc., more effectively.
SOCIAL MEDIA - AN INTRODUCTION
This introduction to Social Media looks at the rise of WEB2.0/Social Media/New Media technologies in general and offers some ideas on how these tools and applications could be used to benefit VCO’s.
Duration:
Each workshop will be a session of approximately 2 to 3 hours.
Norfolk
Norfolk Rural Community Council
SOCIAL MEDIA
10:00 AM
10 May 2012
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