Crowdsourcing: support for voluntary organisations
5th May 2009
I was writing an email to B.Strong today about how digital media can be used to help voluntary organisations market themselves and generally do whatever they do more effectively.
B.Strong (part of the Council) provides organisational development support and capacity building training to voluntary organisations and community groups and is putting on a series of workshops for voluntary organisations that support excluded communities, especially BME, Migrant, Refugee and New
Communities. Donna, my colleague, and I offered to help them include some training in using online tools for marketing in their programme following a meeting last week.
Now here comes the ‘crowdsourcing’ bit:I promised to put together a list of people and places that voluntary organisations can go to for support, so that they don’t go away from their session without knowing whom to turn to.
Needless to say, I’ll mention the excellent Social Media Surgeries; and I will encourage them to build collective support networks through Twitter, blogs etc. and to ask their kids to work out how to do stuff for them. (I think this would be a good opportunity for children to get informal work experience.)
If you have any other sources of support that I could add to the list, then please add a comment (below), or email me on john.heaven@birmingham.gov.uk. Information on B.Strong’s sessions are attached here: Leaflet re. B.Strong training.
Anyone interested in social media-related tomfoolery (whether they’re a beginner or one of those self-declared experts) is always welcome down to the Birmingham Social Media Cafe – http://birminghamsmc.com
I’ve tried to keep up a running list of other events on the site too – http://www.birminghamsmc.com/other-events/
Thanks for that Chris. The crowdsourcing is paying off already! I’ll add that to the list and I’ll put the link on there too.
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Hi John – B.Strong already knows about and works with the Digbeth Trust but we are always happy to be on another list of people and places that voluntary organisations can go to for support. The Digbeth Trust has been helping mainly smaller voluntary organisations and community groups in Birmingham and the West Midlands to develop their ideas and make their communities better places to be for over 20 years. We ‘publish’ a very popular and highly-regarded weekly Broadcast of information and events of interest to the voluntary and community sector – anyone can sign up for it from our website. Cheers, Pauline Roche, Chief Executive
Thanks Pauline. The B.Strong event has already happened, but it’s good that you’ve posted here because I told the organisations about our blog so hopefully they will hear about you here!
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