The Beginning

In the beginning some of our projects were utilising Facebook and myspace etc to keep in contact with children and young people connected to that project however this was uncontrolled and poorly managed or understood and unsurprisingly this led to problems. Thus all such activity was banned until proper procedures, policies and protocols were put in place. When I was hired as Participation Worker this was something I was keen to put back into place as well as having a blog targeted at staff discussing participation. 

I have just attended Katie Bacon's OCN accredited training course Social Media and Social Networking course which was both fascinating and inspiring. Since I have been given the organisational lead on building Spurgeons' Facebook presence, developing the appropriate policies and protocols and running a pilot project. It promises to be an interesting and eventful journey and hopefully by discussing my progress others can learn and avoid mistakes.

I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I'm sure I will.