Lots to keep afloat this week!
I've been working on a first draft of the Social Media Policy for New Saints, drawing inspiration from Carl Haggerty's much-respected policy. The trick here (or so I think) is to find the balance between being a creative, innovative social media-er, and being safe, responsible and respectful. There's one point that a lot of social networking policy examples seem to miss out though, and that is to participate in a way that you enjoy! If you have fun tweeting/blogging/networking then it'll have a much more positive impact on the network you're socialising with!
We're also getting to the stage where we're finishing a few funding and partnership applications, soon comes the agonising wait whilst committees in rooms around the South West and London decide whether we're - or if I'm taking it personally (which Melita has told me to stop doing) I'm - worthy of funding and partnering! Eek!
We've started thinking about how we're going to go about building our Project Development Website, and training New Saints members to maintain and build on it. A very useful connection we made through twitter was Cosmic Ethical IT. Now I'm not making any promises, but the websites these guys design and train look soooooooo good, I want one! (Having gone through millions of parish church "websites" that were last updated in 1992 for volunteer research with the CCT, I have become a bit of a snob about webdesign) Check out the Devon Historic Churches Trust site to see the pretty shiny!
We've got our next New Saints meeting tomorrow where we will be discussing logos and branding, I've seen a sneak preview of a few mock-ups with hunkypunks galore, hooray!
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