Our first steps towards using social media

After several months of hard work by us and our digital agency, Substrakt and with help from Nick Booth at Podnosh, I’m pleased to launch the updated and improved Futurebuilders website. You’ll find lots of small changes around which will hopefully result in an improved user experience, but the centerpiece of our relaunch is this new Resources section.

We wanted to create an area for resources and support around things that we think are relevant to third sector organisations involved in public service delivery, for example commissioning, tendering processes, contracts, social finance and consortia working. Some of it we have created ourselves, but in recognition of the great stuff out there by organisations like NVCO, NAVCA and Knowhow Nonprofit there is an extended links section with links to some really good stuff.

We also wanted to pull together our increased use of social media in one place. So you’ll find this blog, links to our videos on Vimeo, our Twitter stream and our images on flickr. You’ll also notice that you can subscribe to news items and blog posts using RSS, comment and vote on content and submit your own links.

The blog will focus on everything that is important in our - and hopefully your - lives. A number of people will be involved as bloggers from time to time. You’re guaranteed to hear from our Busines Development, Investment and Marketing Teams, and, perhaps (depending on how busy he is) our CEO, Jonathan Lewis. Helping them all along will be our Web Team - Hannah Grant and I.

Social media and particularly blogging is a fairy new thing for us at Futurebuilders and it will invariably take some learning but we are very excited about it. We really hope that you - the person reading this - will take part as well. Why not leave a comment on a blog post, vote on an article or submit your own link? Or why not write a guest blog post? We’re wide open to suggestions, so if you are interested send me an email at [email protected].

Let us know what we are doing right, wrong or not at all. Suggest improvements, complain or encourage us. Share your experiences, tell us what you are doing and about interesting content you’ve found.

The conversation starts here.

Comments

1. 169 days ago Nic Millington said:
   

   Hi.

   This is a great development - just what communities and agencies which aim to strenthen them, need. Please keep me up to date with developments.

   Nic Millington
   CEO
   The Rural Media Company
2. 168 days ago Pontus Westerberg said:
   

   Great to hear positive feedback - thank you. We’ll keep you up to date via this blog.

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