We are Bully Free Zone and tweet as @BFZonline. Our Mission is to provide information, support and guidance to children and young people (and their families) affected by bullying and to raise awareness of bullying and ways to prevent and combat it.

We have been using Twitter for little over a month. It is something I had been intending to do as a communications lead for BFZ but hadn’t got round to until recently due to other work commitments. We do not have a dedicated worker for marketing and communications worker due to resource restraints but I tend to spend any free time i do have explore new ways to communicate our work to the world.

Twitter is so easy to use and its has been extremely easy to build up a network of interesting and worthwhile organisations and individuals whose knowledge and experience we can learn from.

Last month i managed to convince @wossy to RT our reminder that it was International Day Against Homophobia just during a difficult period where he was being portrayed as homophobic by the media. He could have chose to ignore it but instead took the opportunity to share the message with his thousands of followers.

The biggest issue for us is having time to tweet. Much of our work consists of supporting young people in person through one to one meetings and group work as well as supporting schools to provide a safe learning environment for vulnerable young people. Finding the time to share with the world details of the excellent and important work we do can be difficult as a result. Twitter however does make it easy to share things quickly so is usually the first port of call for me when i do get time.

Don’t be scared of asking people to retweet messages on your behalf. It may seem cheeky and self-serving but you’ll find that a vast majority of tweeps are only to willing to help. Just make sure you return the favour.

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