CANCELLED -- Stop Hiding Your Light Under a Bushel!
Chris
Pifer
Short Description:
How is the vitality of your meeting impacted by the way it communicates? How well does your meeting communicate with its members? With seekers? This workshop is a practical skill-building workshop looking at how to improve communications within your meeting. We will be looking both at what you say an how you say it using both new and old technologies. Basic skills on the internet are important for this workshop.
Long Description:
For many people under the age of 30, if your meeting does not have a website it does not exist. The landscape of communications is changing rapidly and its hard for a meeting to keep up on its own. Likewise, mastering the challenges of print and off-line communications can be equally daunting.
This will be a skill-sharing and skill-building workshop, identifying practical tools that meetings can use to better communicate with themselves and with seekers. We will look at all aspects of meeting communications from print to web. We will look at tools that will support the work of committees, as well as our outreach efforts in the wider world.
Our time will be grounded in worship each day. We will then move into discussion, and specific activities, expecting that this will be a time of mutual exploration and discovery of best practices while drawing on the experience of FGC communications staff.
Each day will be devoted to a different topic. Friends are encouraged to bring samples of their meeting newsletters to share in the workshop, as well as laptops if they have them.
Day 1: Introductions & exploring samples of meeting communications brought by participants
Day 2: Newsletters & listservs
Day 3: Meeting processes to support communications
Day 4: Websites & social media
Day 5: Taking it home
Questions we will consider together include:
-Understanding your audience & their needs (seekers, attenders, & members)
-Discerning the right technology tool for the task
-Privacy & security
-Whose decision is this, anyway? roles for individuals, committees and meetings for business
-The role of communications in the life of the meeting.
Recommended readings may be provided in advance of the workshop via email once participants are registered. Bring your questions, concerns, ideas & dreams!
