Day 385: Informing Your People

There will always be many ways to inform the young people in your barangay. Today, even those whom you do not intend to inform can be informed. But this is not a big deal because those you intend to inform may be informed through them.

The frame of information that we are going to discuss is about your activities and/or meetings.

SK Fatima councilors planning and deliberating ideas for a proposed activity.

Who should be informed?

It is really important to present first your desired program for implementation to your council. I’m talking to the chairman and kagawad at this point. They should be the ones to get it first hand. Deliberations will surely follow.

If you have office staff allow them to get hold of that proposal too. They can certainly help in preparing the documents, if there’s a need of them.

The chairman will have his session with other barangay councilors. He should also inform them, even by just inserting that in the “Announcement” in their order of businesss, unless it needed a resolution to be attached for government fund use, this should be enough.

Finally, have your KKs know of your plans. They will be your priority and concern in this implementation. They will be the ones to benefit from this, they should benefit from this.

Why should they be informed?

Although the SK is a distinguished entity of its own and can work with some extent of independence, disseminating your invitation to Barangay councilors will help. These people will be able to help your target people be informed, especially those who have political alliances with purok chairpersons and personalities.

Also, the reason why we have to make our information known to as many as we can is because of the power of networking.

How should they be informed?

There are many options for these today. Depending on your agreement with your KKs or the urgency of the matter, you can go from the formal to the casual form, though we suggest giving it formally.

Letters. Very office-ish, which is appropriate since we are handling an office.

Text messages. Good for those SKs who have load allowances. For those who do not, you really have to spend some money for this. In return, you have a fast and timely dissemination. But your young people can always blame late messages, or give reasons that they never received any text messages from you.

Tip: Have a format in your text messages, inserting [OFFICIAL] or [SK OFFICE] will make them aware the text message’s validity.

Social media. Nowadays, you can always have this option. Use it to serve you best.

Tip: If your kagawads or staff an account on the same media you are using, make them share the information on their wall or “retweet” it.

In our barangay, we have observed that in whatever form of communication you use there will always be times when the response is low.

Any more words?

Aside from sending them letters or posting on whichever wall you like, you can always reinforce your announcement or information through texting. It may help get the greatest response in the history of SK governance, just exaggerating. Follow-up is the key.

In my upcoming posts ideas, tips, problems and solutions may be incorporated with the reel of discussion. But don’t worry, it will be highlighted so you know were on that part already.