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Promote your community activities

How can I use social and traditional media to promote my local community project?

Journalists want to hear real stories from real people. Find out how to create and maintain relationships with local media.

Leverage social media to cultivate online communities, create and circulate content about your AOD community project.

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    Engaging the media

    Start here to harness the media to promote your work.

  • A smiling woman is interviewed outdoors at an event, speaking into a microphone held by an interviewer.
    Working effectively with the media

    Take practical steps, be available for interviews and use photos and images to help get your story picked up in the media.

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    Social media for your local community projects

    How social media can help you promote community activities.

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    Getting started with social media

    Before getting started on social media, it’s important to understand where you should focus your efforts.

  • Cultivating community
    Cultivating an online community

    Now that your page is set up, it’s time to start attracting an audience. Have you done these three things?

  • An audience seated in a community hall listens to a speaker at the front of the room.
    How to run events, meetings and forums

    A guide to help community groups and Local Drug Action Teams (LDATs) running prevention activities in their local areas.

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