ANGLICAN COMMUNION OFFICE ANNUAL REVIEW 2011
traditional placement in Communion Provincial and diocesan publications. Over the month of July, for example, not long after the ACNS Facebook page was established, just 125 followers were resulting in 13,000+ post views.
Primates Press Conference. The conference on the final day of the Primates’ Meeting was facilitated by the ACO’s Communications Department.
bulletins translated into Spanish and French. This year’s Council of the Provinces of Africa (CAPA) meeting, the Anglican dioceses in Zimbabwe and The Anglican Church in Japan (Nippon Sei Ko Kai) are just some of those who used ACNS as their firstchoice news delivery service to the Communion. Of the 585 ACNS stories published in 2011, at least 75% were also disseminated via our @acoffice Twitter account with 2,300+ international followers, and our ACNS Facebook page. These Social Media platforms have significantly multiplied the impact and reach of our stories over and above the more
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The Communications Department also spent much of this year strengthening the ACO’s capacity for delivering high-quality information to the Anglican Communion. Projects have included overseeing the implementation of a cutting-edge contacts database which doubles as a knowledge management tool that ACO staff and Provincial Secretaries can update themselves; initiating a corporate brand refresh that included the production of new corporate material, and House Style and Social Media guidelines; and working with ACO departments and Anglican Communion Networks to effectively communicate their life and work. This year the Director for Communication also joined the global board of the ecumenical charity the World Association of Christian Communications (WACC) and the steering committee of WACC Europe. This re-establishes a long-time tradition of ecumenical co-operation and collaboration by the Anglican Communion in the field of Church communications.