1. Social media & internet
tools for influencing
policy processes
2. What social media?
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Slideshare
• Pinterest
• Youtube
• Blogs
3. Centre for Public Policy
PROVIDUS:
• Under Think Tank 'Centre for Public Policy
PROVIDUS' live 3 brands:
• Think tank PROVIDUS is a research and consultations NGO
which works in fields of criminal justice, european policy and
energy policy, good governance (anti-corruption, political party
financing, active citizenship, eDemocracy, etc.) and education
and tolerance
• Public policy website www.politika.lv is a 10 year old website,
where you can find research, articles, and interviews about
politics in Latvia and worldwide
• Website for direct communication with parlamentarians,
europarlamentarians and ministers www.GudrasGalvas.lv
4. Blogs are important!
• PROVIDUS researchers use an opportunity to blog on
portal www.politika.lv + have personal blogs on certain
issues, wikipages
• Blogging tells a story about your organization
• Blogging humanizes your organization
• Blogging lets you put an issue on the agenda, if you
use social media
• Reblog blogs on other platforms, make sure creative
commons is turned on
5. Personal brand
• We not only have organizations social
accounts on Twitter, but also work on
reasearchers and activists social media
branding on Twitter.
• Your personal account is a part of
organization's brand
6. PROVIDUS in social media
• SlideShare
• Twitter (provide a
hashtag for every
event!)
• Facebook
7. politika.lv in social
media
• Big stress on Twitter
• Asking questions
• Making a hashtag that we ‘own’
• Providing live streaming on website
and via live tweets from various
events
• Answering ALL negative comments
through tweets or DM
• Communicating with readers more
than being a radio
8. politika.lv on Facebook
• Ask yourself- what your readers
wants to read about?
• What he wants to know?
• Photos and videos are better
than text
• Ask questions and for advice
• Give them some fun
• Like other pages and make
friends by sharing their news
10. politika.lv on YouTube
• Videos from our
events
• Interviews with
researchers
• Interviews with
politicians
• Make it short,
optimal 2 minutes
• Collaboration with
GudrasGalvas.lv
11.
12. How to start using
social media?
• You WILL be lonely at first
• Find your friends and ask for support, do not be afraid
• Find politicians, talk to them
• Find other NGOs, talk to them, spread the word about
their activities, make new friends
• Find journalists and other opinion leaders, talk to them
and interact. Give them questions to ask politicians
13. Other suggestions:
• Make sure you put your mission and logos
EVERYWHERE
• Use Wikipedia to spread the word
• Put all social media accounts in your email
signature
• Just being on social media is not enough,
BUT..... use namevine.com
14. Thank you!
• Contact me via email
curika@providus.lv
• Contact me on twitter @curiha
• Follow us on twitter @providus
• Follow us on Pinterest
www.pinterest.com/politikalv
• Follow us on Slideshare
www.slideshare.com/providus