Community Energy South is a regional support group for community energy in the south-east. The Social Media Toolbox forms part of Community Energy South’s marketing hub. The hub is available to help the Community Energy Groups establish their Facebook and Social Media strategies.
In 2018 they partnered with Our Power a new energy supply company that is aligned with community energy offering two tariffs Fairer Energy that targets support to the vulnerable and fuel poor and Positive Energy that is 100% green. The aim was to offer these tariffs to the regions community energy groups and any profits from the Positive Energy Tariff will be returned to the groups to invest in tackling fuel poverty.
The guide includes the following contents:
➔ Introduction: What is Social Media and why use it?
➔ Getting started: Understanding your target audience, User Personas, creating your content brand pie chart, Content Types, Tone of Voice, Key Influencers
➔ Using It: Hashtags, Liking, following, @mention, RT, QuoteRT, Using Data, Awareness Days, Tweethours
➔ Examples of best practice Twitter by award-winning Community Energy group Bhesco
The toolbox can be found by visiting here