Digital Mentor Scheme
Let us ask you…
How does your organisation use the web? Do you have a website? Do you use the Internet often? Do you find you don’t have the time? Wonder whether it may be a waste of time?
Can you recognise the potential of finding a ‘digital balance‘ for your organisation? What do we mean by digital balance?
We define digital balance as the level of confidence, skills and time to ensure an individual, group or organisation effectively uses technology in support of their aims and objectives.
Finding a ‘digital balance‘ for your organisation certainly raises a lot of questions. Let us ask you some more…
- Is it a task you can assign to a member of staff?
- Should you ‘buy in’ a service? and what service is it that you’re actually buying in?
- Do you know what you need? what questions to ask? recognise a lofty price tag?
- Is it something you can do yourself as a sole trader or start up business?
Why your organisation needs a Digital Mentor
Each and every organisation is individual. Each have their specific agendas, aims and objectives, different products, services and structures. Training a candidate from within an organisation ensures that they have the right credentials to find the digital balance for that organisation. And as technology shifts, the organisation can be assured it has the right person in place to maintain that balance.
Finding your ‘digital balance‘ with the We Share Stuff Digital Mentor Scheme.
Through a brief consultation, We Share Stuff will help you identify the right candidate(s) within your organisation to become a Digital Mentor. They will learn the relevant skills and techniques to ensure that your organisation will have someone who understands social technology and how best to benefit from it. They will be the point of call for information, advice and guidance in relation to the social web.
Skills Cascade
We believe the Digital Mentor scheme brings a ‘skills cascade’ to your organisation. The knowledge sharing nature of the scheme provides a great way to improve the digital skills and confidence of your staff at a fraction of the cost of traditional training schemes.
What our Digital Mentor Scheme isn’t!
- A ‘bolt on’ approach – Social Technology cannot be bolted on to anything to be benefited from. It’s so much more than a marketing tool or a fun way to stay connected.
- Another addition to a range of courses delivered in the usual teacher – student format. We Recognise that learning is lifelong and best delivered using a Community of Practice model.
- A quick fix solution – There isn’t any! technology is here to stay and will embed further into the way we do things.
A few questions that your Digital mentor can address
What, another new social network? Do we need to be on that? – A digital mentor is always ahead of the game, the skills and knowledge they will gain and continue to gain through the digital mentor network, means they will know whether the latest social media bandwagon is worth you jumping on or avoiding like the plague.
Should we be on Facebook? everybody else is, surely we’re missing out? - A Digital Mentor will help you to decide whether Facebook will be beneficial to your Organisation. They will know the differences between groups and pages, whether to use it for campaigning, advertising – the risks and pitfalls, how to use it effectively and regularly.
We banned Twitter because we didn’t want staff using it when they should be doing their work! Why should we let them use it? – Could your staff work better by using twitter productively? A Digital Mentor can help you gauge opinion, encourage productive use of Twitter. If other organisations are using it this way, why can’t yours?
Why can’t the IT department do this? Why do we need a Digital Mentor? – We think social technology is it’s own beast. Yes, it feeds off IT but it’s nothing without those who contribute. Not only is it platform agnostic but sector agnostic. The Digital Mentor could be from your IT Department… but you need to ask, do they possess the right people skills? we’ll help you find that out.
We really haven’t got time to be on all these social networking sites, we have work to do. – When understood and implemented effectively, Social networking and other forms of social technology improve the workflow, improve staff confidence and improve digital skills.
Is it worth us looking at free online tools? what’s the catch? surely they can’t be any good? who would train us anyway? – Sometimes it isn’t as simple as it looks. A Digital Mentor will research and inform on suitable options for your organisation including cost effective ways to ensure everyone benefits.
To find out more about the digital mentor scheme and price plans, please get in touch.
