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Here’s a question on staff communications and digital platforms. So we’ve recently switched our in-house staff comms platform to Viva Engage, and we’ve set up some communities on there, and invited staff to suggest communities that they’d like to be part of. We’re a very widely dispersed charity - just under 400 staff - but with nearly everyone working in small teams - mostly in prisons or embedded with probation or part of multi agency partnerships - and a central team who are hybrid working. We’re working at around 100 different locations so we have to work hard to nurture a sense of one organisation, one team-one dream. Our staff are smart and amazing - but they’re mostly hired for their values and sense of vocation amd people skills - not for their abilities with social media or digital comms platforms. And they’re mostly on their feet, moving around, suppotprting people, rather than staring at screens. I wonder whether there are people who’ve done this ‘journey’ and can share any tips or words of wisdom? How do we encourage staff who don’t sit at a desk all day, or take their phones to work, to try out an online platform they’re not familiar with? And once they are on, how do we make it worth their while to keep using it? And to feel confident to contribute and share their know how (which is immense) with one another? We’re doing ok, but we’ve not yet reached the ‘tipping point’ where it just becomes the thing everyone does. Though to be fair, we’ve only been getting used to it for a couple of months. But I’m keen to create a great online space for staff to get benefit from and naturally impatient… Anyway - any staff comms gurus out there? I’d welcome any insights or suggestions?

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