Social media is very visual these days, with Facebook, Twitter and Google+ all tweaking their layouts to give a more visually rich experience, coupled with the rise of image-focused sites such as Instagram and Pinterest, to name a few. Selecting good, quality images to post on these channels can be…
Social media has matured substantially over the past 14 years, with most users now accepting, and being more likely to trust, social networking as an effective way to communicate. This has led to it becoming easier to use social media to assist with fundraising efforts, both for well planned projects…
Now that the preparations for the two break out sessions I will be presenting in at the 2014 RI Convention in Sydney have been completed, I’ve finally been able to turn my attention back to reinstating the information on this website! I have now put together a CV for my…
So right now there’s not a lot to see here, after I deleted simone.carotcollins.com before first transferring the very limited information that was actually hosted on there (primarily my Rotary resume). Oops. In time I will endeavour to rebuild my 15 odd years of my Rotary resume and links to…
A digital communications strategy formalises your communications across all digital platforms. By examining what your goals are with your communications, you can best determine who your audience is, and what the best way of communicating with them is. It documents which channels will be used and who is responsible for…
In June 2012, the Rotary Club of Willetton, District 9465, Western Australia, finished its first ever Facebook Ad campaign. The aim of the campaign was to gain new members, not simply gain awareness of Rotary. As such the ads took people to a landing page built specifically for that purpose…
Tagging in a social media context is a way of adding additional short pieces of information to a piece of content that define its subject. Depending on the social network in question, the tag can be a person, keyword, or in Facebook, a page or event as well. Tagging is…