Friday 7 February 2014

Social media: mundane to inspirational

Digital engagement for Bolton at Home can mean anything from online repairs enquiries to our staff chatting with customers through Facebook. We offer our staff training on using social media and are encouraged to use it to communicate where it fits with their job role. For more formal corporate services we have an IT and customer access strategy which is at introducing how we embed digital services across the business.

Challenges faced are similar when introducing new ways to engage to both staff and customers. Customers will generally only get involved when they need something – to campaign against bedroom tax, to contact someone when they have no phone credit or to make a complaint.