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Target Audience: Particularly aimed at those developing public engagement activities

This workshop will take you through the main social media channels and how to create share-worthy content messages, with practical insights on how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible.

The webinar is particularly targeted at anyone considering running an event as part of the Festival of Social Sciences, though will be broadly useful to anyone wanting to get a better idea of how to use social media to engage a public audience.

Following the webinar, you should be able to:

• Raise your profile with social media
• Know how to plan effective content to minimise the time requirement
• Understand the use of social media as a research and networking tool
• Increase your following and interactions by creating sharable content

Prerequisites