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Innovating in communications and engagement
The document discusses local council online, a website platform for local councils to communicate and engage with their communities. It offers modern and customizable websites, publishing tools, forms, calendars, and social media integration starting at £250 per year. The document also provides ideas for combining traditional communications with new online approaches such as using Twitter and Storify for meetings, email newsletters, Google Maps, WordPress for verification, and Skype for virtual meetings. The goal is for councils to become online hubs for their communities.
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- 1. localcouncilsonline Innovating in communicationsand engagement People in Action conference 5th July 2012
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- 3. localcouncilsonline • Modern lookand feel • Flexible publishing • Customisable • Contact and • As many pages as you consultation forms like • Fully supported and • Documents and maps maintained • Events calendar • Plenty of help available • Social media integration • Training workshops • Use your own domain • Only £250 per year!
- 4. localcouncilsonline Sign up tofind out more! localcouncilsonline.com
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- 6. Need to combinetraditional comms with new approaches
- 7. Not everyone isonline But not everyone is offline, either
- 8. Traditional comms havetheir online equivalents
- 9. Noticeboards = website Newsletters = email lists Meetings = social networks
- 10. Some quick andsimple ideas for online communication
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- 13. Twitter.com Storify.com – tocollect tweets together
- 14. Start an emailnewsletter
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- 22. Wordpress.com or Ideascale.com
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- 26. Run a webchat
- 28. Twitter.com or Coveritlive.com
- 29. Hold a Skypesurgery
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- 32. Become a localonline hub
- 34. Not a technicalthing! Open your website to the community.
- 35. Key things: Prototype, thenstrategise Start small, then grow Keep it informal Don’t panic!
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- 37. localcouncilsonline localcouncilsonline.com kindofdigital.com