Social Media Master Class

The day is aimed at everyone from absolute beginners to experts and we'd encourage anyone with an interest in social media or growing Scouting to come along, we will be focusing on Facebook but hope to run another course in the winter around other social media platforms and more advanced techniques.

All you will need is yourself, some lunch and an internet enabled mobile phone; we'll be covering how to use the apps involved and we'll even be posting to "99th Dummy Scout Group" so you can actually get some practical examples in.

With an effective social media presence you can allow your activities to sell themselves and generally show the area what we're doing, this will start to lead towards more youth and adult recruitment. It makes it easier to get people interested in Scouting if we have lots of pictures, videos and posts about what we're up too.

The agenda for the day will be as below. This will be the first time we've run this course and participants will be welcome to provide feedback at the end so we can make this course worthwhile for all those attending.

0945-1000 Registration & Refreshments 
1000-1010 Aims of the day and Ice Breaker 
1010-1040 Safeguarding & GDPR Aspects of Social Media
1040-1100 What’s the point of Social Media? And what is it? 
1100-1115 Refreshment Break 
1115-1200 Recruitment and Retention of Adults and Young People Using Social Media 
1200-1245 Lunch (Bring a pack-up)
1245-1300 Pages Manager App Installation and Registration
1300-1330 How Pages Work - A practical Guide
1330-1400 What Makes a Good Social Media Post 
1400-1415 Refreshment Break 
1415-1500 Practical: Craft a great post
1500-1530 What can the District do to help groups with social media?
1530-1600 Q&A 
1600 Close 

If you are interested in attending please book online so we can judge numbers. 

You must bring an internet enabled device with you preferably your smart phone as there is a practical element to this course, please note there is no wi-fi at Cherry Garth!

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