- Was reading Emma’s post regarding a ‘toolkit for social media’ (lot’s of helpful comments there already, nothing I can add, really) when I noticed:
- A comment from Paul Webster advertising a guide to Using New Media, which I really liked – a very simple guide to some of the ‘New Media’ / ‘Social Networking’ / ‘Web 2.0’ / ‘whatever’ tools that are being used at the present, with case studies and pros and cons for the enthusiastic amateur to think about and get started*. This led me on to the:
- ICT Hub, who host the guide, and some of the great stuff they have got, including:
× a link on the homepage to yet more social media stuff,
× monthly newsletters, such as June's Social Media edition
× case studies, including Lasa’s experiment with the ‘web-based office’
× articles (I should really pay attention to the one with tips for bloggers) and
× other publications, such as How ICT is shaping the future design and delivery of public services. And at the bottom of the publications list I saw a link to the: - Performance Hub, which closed in March, but still has some good stuff in their archive, including their helpful Adventures In Strategy guide – a 5-part overview of different aspects of public sector strategy
Hopefully some of this will be of interest to others, especially anyone else who is starting out and wants to get to grips with the basics before trying anything more adventurous. Or, in an effort to bring this back round full-circle, anyone who is at the initial engage / observe stage in the social media toolkit.
For anyone in that position (myself included), this helps to reassure that you are not alone – that there are a lot of good, helpful people and a lot of good, helpful information out there, now go influence / inform / interact.
*the thinking behind this post was that the guide deserved the prominence of being in a main entry, rather than a bit buried in the comments of another, but then I realised that many, many more people read Emma’s comments than my posts…
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