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Your digital strategy should provide an overarching vision to guide the use of digital in the different areas of business within your organisation. Underneath this, you will need additional strategies relating to digital content and digital marketing. This guide explains their relationship and provides examples from other organisations on how these strategies have attracted wider and more diverse audiences.

Social media enables heritage institutions and practitioners to participate, preserve and interpret heritage content and practice. It can also support your heritage organisation to market itself and raise awareness of its practice to local, national and international audiences. This guide will provide a brief overview of social media platforms, tips for using them effectively to encourage participation and how they can be used to improve marketing and fundraising in your organisation.

In this video, Annie Andoh shares her top tips on how to use video to engage with digital audiences through your social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.  She looks at easy to use online tools that can help you create quick and cheap ‘do it yourself’ videos; explains how to repurpose videos; ideas for videos that work well on social media and tips on what equipment to invest in to help you produce new videos.