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This is very good!

Although written from within a local authority, these 15 challenging statements from @helreynolds on the @comms2point0 blog can just as easily apply to any sector. As I read them, so many rang true for charities I’ve been involved with. “Work is not somewhere you go, but something you do” - oh yes!

This should be something you have on your desk or pinned up on the wall so that whenever doubt or concern is raised you can quickly dispel their fear and hopefully move step-by-step closer to being a digital organisation.

Two things in my inbox in quick succession, both about how social media is used. Loosely slung together here, mainly for my reference library, but maybe of use to others too.

Firstly (from @owlfood), to add to the cringeworthy (but funny) videos about social media is this one about NEEDING a social media strategy. I’m sure I hope this never really happens … but I bet it does!

A much more productive way to use social media is to listen and to listen much more than you broadcast. I was always told to use my ears more than my mouth and these five great ideas on the NTEN website will help do just this when using the Internet.

The tips at the end are great too, developing so much more of a listening and responding social media strategy than the cartoon depicting a broadcast strategy!