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There’s a free event happening on 19 June in Leeds for communicators working in local or central government, the NHS, housing, and blue light services. Register now to learn with 100 of your peers and reconnect with the 'what, why and how' of public sector communications’ missions. Here’s why you can’t afford to miss it...
by Emma Howard
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Today we are sharing new and untold real life housing stories
by Ade Capon
Right now across the UK housing organisations and their tenants are tweeting, Face booking and You tubing their housing stories.
This is our focus for #HousingDay 2014 – promoting the creation of new and untold housing stories. To be shared and in effect crowd sourced under a hash tag campaign. Only by housing organisations ever engaging with their tenants and customers will we be able to compile a compelling housing narrative. Not from our point view but from theirs.
So, you've done the Twitter event. But how do you measure what kind of impact it had? Here's what he people behind one event to look at what changed because of it. The answers are varied.
Last year #Housingday tweetathon reached a 1,000 tweets an hour. This survey looked to find out about the impact of the day. We wanted to hear from those involved, what they thought about it and what the sector could do next?
There are challenges in every field of communications. None more than those facing the housing sector.
First up, a confession - I'm a complete newbie when it comes to comms. I started my job at Chartered Institute of Housing - or CIH - just three months ago after six and a half years as a local newspaper reporter. I'm learning new things every day - not least from blogs like comms2point0 and the comms community on Twitter who are fantastically generous in sharing knowledge and content.
