New Media - a UNISON opportunity

UNISON Scotland needs to develop and promote itself through all new media platforms and should train activists up to use the relevant software -that’s the message from a successful pilot one day course held in Inverness.

Arranged by lifelong learning worker, Philippa Clark and with the assistance of film company, Media Co-op, activists and full-time staff took part in a pilot course in Inverness to look at what would be useful and how to get to grips with the technology.

The course included producing a short video clip for uploading to YouTube and finding out about Twitter, FaceBook, blogging and the use of bulk texting software.

Communications Officer, Chris Bartter, said, “The course outlined the opportunities and some of the barriers to using these new media. Quite clearly UNISON Scotland is keen to get involved - some branches and activists already have FaceBook pages and blogs. We now need to develop training to roll out the techniques and practical details to activists.”

The students devised, planned and shot a 30 second video clip in 3-3 ½ hours using mobile phones and webcams. Their results are on the UNISON Scotland YouTube page at www.youtube.com/user/UNISONScotland?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

Why not follow us on Twitter - twitter.com/unisonscot and become a fan on Face Book www.facebook.com/unisonscot.

UNISONScotland’s blog is on unison-scotland.blogspot.com/ and other useful blogs are by Graham Smith, of UNISON’s Young Members - grahaminunison.blogspot.com , Dave Watson - unisondave.blogspot.com and UNISONActive -unisonactive.blogspot.com .

Photos of UNISONScotland events are on Picasa - picasaweb.google.com/unisonscotland .

To save yourself all the typing, all these addresses are but a click away from the top right-hand corner of the UNISONScotland home page on our website www.unison-scotland.org.uk

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