Not yet made a new year’s resolution? – Why not to brush up on your marketing and advocacy skills? On 11 January Creating Capacity is running: Advocating your Service: basic planning tools to gain support and influence <https://creatingcapacity.enterprisestudy.com/View.aspx?p=88817&c=90470&cour seid=90470&zz=36618573> This course is tailored to the needs of anyone with responsibility for speaking out about the value of museums, libraries and archives. It will be particularly valuable for those who negotiate team or organisational budgets and or have responsibility for demonstrating the centrality of your organisation's role to local, regional and central government agendas. This interactive day will be focused on case studies and practical exercises so you can implement your learning when back at your desk. By the end of the day participants will have: o An understanding of what advocacy is and how to make best use of it o Worked through tools for stakeholder and community engagement o A clearer view on which individuals have an impact on your organisation’s success o Learned how to develop and implement an effective low cost advocacy strategy On 13 January we bring you the related course: Low Cost Marketing: solutions for being effective in challenging times <https://creatingcapacity.enterprisestudy.com/View.aspx?p=88817&c=86192&cour seid=86192&zz=91625001> Which is for all those who want refresh their knowledge on, or discover for the first time, how to: o Develop and implement an effective marketing plan on a low budget o Build and sustain long-lasting relationships with visitors and users o Identify and deliver on the organisation's unique properties o Design an action plan for marketing through a recession For both courses the: Venue is: Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert St, Camden Town, NW1 7NB Price is: £120 plus VAT including 3 months post course support from your trainer Interested? Then book online <http://www.creatingcapacity.org/> or call me on 07985 659425 for more information. Interested but can't spare the time from my museum, library or archive for training? Then consider our tailored in-house <http://www.creatingcapacity.org/cc/index.aspx?id=4&nId=11> package as a low-cost alternative. Kind regards, Lucy Auger Creating Capacity for Museums, Libraries and Archives Tel: 079 8565 9425 Email: [log in to unmask] Follow us on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/LearningCC> @LearningCC Web: <http://www.creatingcapacity.org/> www.creatingcapacity.org Learning programmes to develop confidence and inspire the profession now and for the future Full programme 2010 / 2011 <http://www.creatingcapacity.org/uploads/creating_capacity_programme_Sep_Mar ch_2July_v12.pdf> here **************************************************************** For mcg information visit the mcg website at http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ To manage your subscription to this email list visit http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ ****************************************************************