Click here for the Refugee Week 2019 downloadable social media pack
Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are a great way of getting people along to your event, and telling the story afterwards. They key to success is keeping it personal and keeping it visual – think photos of people!
Here are some useful free websites, programmes and apps you can use to produce content for social media:
Make a meme (photo + text)
*Search ‘meme generator’ on your smartphone, tablet or PC – there are lots of easy meme-making websites and apps available, like this one
INSPIRATION: White Helmet Memes by the Syria Campaign
Make and share micro-videos (very short video clips)
Vine records up to 6 seconds of video
Instagram records up to 15 seconds
Keek records up to 36 seconds
INSPIRATION: 5 NGOs That Use Vine for Creative Storytelling
Record a video message
*Shoot using your camera, camera phone or tablet
INSPIRATION: Positive voices on migration from Open Generation
Record an audio message
*Record on your phone or audio recorder
*If you want to edit your audio, try Audacity free audio editing software. For help with Audacity, try this Wiki page or good old Youtube
INSPIRATION: Audio stories from My Journey migrant storytelling project, BBC radio’s 100 Stories of Migration in Leicester
Share your audio clip
*Post audio with a single image on Audioboom
Soundcloud is also a popular audio-sharing site, especially for music
INSPIRATION: My Journey exhibition audio blog
Make a photo-film (audio-visual slideshow)
Soundslides (free trial version available)
INSPIRATION: My Journey photo-films, The Guardian’s Backstage at the Snowman and Bristol International Balloon Fiesta 2013
Further tips and inspiration
*Online tutorials on photography, video, social media & more from ABC Open
*Social media tips for NGOs from Socialbrite (see ‘articles and resources’ on right hand side)
