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Boost your social impact with meaningful connections & enhanced engagement

Boost your social impact with meaningful connections & enhanced engagement

In today’s digital era, social media is not just a tool for socializing but an essential element in the communication strategies of various organizations, including school districts. Integrating social media into a year-round communications and engagement strategy offers many benefits that can shape school districts’ relationships with their communities. This approach isn’t merely about maintaining an online presence; it’s about fostering a meaningful connection with your audience—families, students, and community members.

Boost your social impact with meaningful connections & enhanced engagement

In today’s digital era, social media is not just a tool for socializing but an essential element in the communication strategies of various organizations, including school districts. Integrating social media into a year-round communications and engagement strategy offers many benefits that can shape school districts’ relationships with their communities. This approach isn’t merely about maintaining an online presence; it’s about fostering a meaningful connection with your audience—families, students, and community members.

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Boost your social impact with meaningful connections & enhanced engagement

Boost your social impact with meaningful connections & enhanced engagement

In today’s digital era, social media is not just a tool for socializing but an essential element in the communication strategies of various organizations, including school districts. Integrating social media into a year-round communications and engagement strategy offers many benefits that can shape school districts’ relationships with their communities. This approach isn’t merely about maintaining an online presence; it’s about fostering a meaningful connection with your audience—families, students, and community members.

How Evergreen Public Schools showcases music with video

How Evergreen Public Schools showcases music with video

Every year Evergreen Public Schools produces a breadth of music programming. What kinds of groups do you work with and what kinds of concerts do you capture?  The bulk of our musical programming is from our middle and high schools. We cover four regional choir...

Telling your school funding story

Telling your school funding story

School funding is a multi-faceted beast. Crafting finance messaging for public consumption can challenge even the most seasoned communicator. But you seem to have a natural understanding of how to interpret complex data into digestible infographic bites. What advice...

The joy and challenge of making videos collaboratively

The joy and challenge of making videos collaboratively

You two won an international award recently for a video you made together, right?  Fred: Yes, we won a Hermes Gold Award for a pro bono video we did last fall.  Melissa: It was actually the first video we ever collaborated on. My daughter was in a local theater...

A creative web solution for a complex problem

A creative web solution for a complex problem

Can you give us an overview of the initial request that came in? Sure! We’ve been working with NWESD 189 for years including the conversion of their agency website from Drupal to WordPress. When the School Communications Collaborative was formed, we started working...

Crash course in drones for video

Crash course in drones for video

How long have you been flying drones and why did you get started? I started flying drones in 2015. I started for a couple of reasons. One is I’ve been flying and building model airplanes since I was a young boy, so it seemed like a natural progression. The second...

The ins and outs of district communication contracts

The ins and outs of district communication contracts

What exactly is a district communications contract? We offer a wide range of contracts with districts to provide communications, design, and/or website services based on what the district is requesting. Every request is different, so no two contracts are exactly the...