Here are a few ways of keeping your your supporters interested in what’s going on where you’re working … and, things to keep you on your toes as you try out some new ideas.
There’s more to life than PowerPoint (and Newsletters)
Published October 9, 2009 Social , Web , free , training 2 CommentsTags: presentation, prezi, training
Nice Prezi, great approach!
Zoli
I am not sure that the problem for missionaries is lack of thought or desire. I think it is lack of time.
Now before we start talking about how important this communication is and so how it deserves the time… The truth is that missionaries will have to continue to produce newsletters and powerpoints even if they desire to do other things as well because, simply, a lot of their supporters and partners aren’t on facebook or don’t know why we keep telling them to go to their tube (see what they did there?)…
I personally find using my website, facebook and twitter great for keeping some people more personally up to date with me, but I am the kind of person who uses them anyway. But still, a lot of my partners and supporters aren’t on twitter or facebook. And for a missionary who has to learn new skills and gains a new part to fit into an already busy daily and weekly routine, the time obstacle becomes magnitudes larger. Remembering, of course, that it isn’t a change of time usage, but needs to fit on top the communications that they are already utilising.
So I guess, what advice or tips do you have for missionaries who aren’t at a desk with a computer all day… Any thoughts on how to double up blogging with newsletter publishing? Tips on how to encourage supporters to get on facebook and friend up? Easy workflows and systems to get photos out of the digital camera and onto websites and facebook?
I reckon that, if they haven’t already done so, OMF UK ought to get you into the candidate’s course talking about these kinds of things instead of, or as a larger part of, doing a talk on sending newsletters and personal letters like they did when I was at CC…