Social Media Centre Volunteer Night

The Social Media Centre Salford is based in the NDC community room at the Salford Innovation Forum. We have strong links with Salford University, Salford College and the BBC.

Our aim is to:
- use media to help community projects and individuals spread their messages innovatively
- be a hub of people sharing skills and exchanging information to create social media

We offer a structured programme of volunteering activities that aim to provide a broad range of opportunities to meet a variety of interests. You can offer as much or as little time as suits you - there is no minimum time commitment. Regular support and supervision is provided to ensure that you are always getting the most out of volunteering with us. No special skills are needed to volunteer with us as full training is given.

Some of the areas you can volunteer in are:

Community Reporters:

Our Community Reporters programme is a loosely structured programme that is flexible to the needs and interests of each individual. A Community Reporter is someone who is given the skills and facilities to produce regular content - this can be thoughts and reflections on their life, reporting on events that are happening in their area or issues that affect a group they're involved with, and can be produced as a blog, video or audio. We are linked with the BBC on this project and our reporters get to go on a behind the scenes visit to North West Tonight as part of their training. Community Reporters also have the opportunity to link with other reporters to collaborate on stories and offer peer-support.

Skill sharing is a type of training that's a more collaborative way of learning. Volunteers can help us by getting involved in delivering the skill-sharing sessions we run. This is a good way of gaining experience as a Media Trainer.

Internet channels:

Not everyone wants to be a community reporter but there's plenty of other work to be done when creating local Internet channels. Volunteers can help us find text, audio and video relevant to the area and distribute it to other people. There a number of small and large scale projects that require techincal assistance - and you may have your own ideas of how to use technology to bring people together that can be achieved through volunteering with this project.

Event organisation:

We are planning regular film screenings and community media events and there a number of roles available to volunteers who wish to gain experience in this area.

Networking:

Our goal is to create a hub of people sharing skills and exchanging information to create social media. To achieve this we're organising regular networking events for our volunteers at a variety of venues that allow people to come together to share ideas, resources, contacts and work opportunities.

If you are interested in attending the event please get in touch to book a place or feel free to get in touch to find out more. We look forward to hearing from you soon!