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Creative Black Country SHARING YOUR EVENTS
&
TELLING YOUR STORIES
What we can do for you...
-Share your news and events on our social
media networks
-Write a press release and share with local media
-Help with poster / flyer design
Why it is important:
-We need to share the stories of your successes
-We need to engage the people of the Black
Country and encourage them to take part
-We want people to attend your great events
-We need to tell the story of Creative Black
Country
-We want to share your news with our funders
What we need from you...
Information about your project:
- What you are doing?
- Who is doing it? Who is taking part?
- Where are you doing it?
- On what date and time will it happen?
- Why are you doing it? What is the need
- How have you made it happen?
- Do you have any partners that should be mentioned?
- Is there something NEW or UNIQUE about the project
- Is there a specific angle to your event / story?
- Hashtags / social media / website links
What else? Great Images please...
Great images -Do you have someone who is good with a camera that could take a high resolution image for you? -Does everyone in the image give permission to have their picture taken? -Do you have a snippet of video we can share? *TIP: THINK Can you take your picture somewhere that isn’t busy or that has lots of background ‘noise’ to distract from The main subject?
What you can do for yourself...
https://www.instagram.com/creativeblackcountry/
• Great for:
-Sharing images and very short video
-Using hashtags
-Putting up descriptions of projects
-Having conversations with like-minded people /
Groups
• Not so good for:
-Linking to your other sites directly
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CreativeBCuk/
• Great for:
-Setting up event invitations to share with your
network
-Sharing events, images, updates on your project
-Sharing video posts
-Sharing links
-Using hashtags
*TIP: Posts with images / Video are more likely to get
interaction
• Great for: -Sharing events, images, updates on your project -Sharing video posts -Sharing links -Using hashtags -Short posts *TIP: Posts with images and very short videos work very well with Twitter and will get more RT’s
Wordpress.com
Wordpress.com
• Great for:
-Simple website / blog designs
-Templates already set up
-Multiple pages for information
-Easy to navigate
*Tip: Tumblr is also a useful site
*Buy a template if you want something a bit more
design-led / with more options
Vimeo
• Great for:
-Simplicity
-Easy to upload videos
-Easy to download videos
-Easy to share videos
-Easy to embed on wordpress / tumblr
Canva
• Great for:
-Designing flyers for print
-Designing social media posts / digital posts
-Free images / logos / typography
-Upload your own images
-Produce your own templates that you can re-
Use
-Very simple to use – drag & drop
WHO TO CONTACT? If you’d like help with
-Promoting your events -Sharing your events
-Tweeting your events -Designing materials
-Press releases -Setting up social media accounts or a basic
website
Email info to: [email protected] – Marketing & Content Manager
[email protected] – Project Administrator