Join Kirstin Beardsley, Marketing & Communications Manager at CanadaHelps, and Kara Golani, Nonprofit Training Associate at CanadaHelps, for a morning of social media strategy training.
Back to Basics: Developing a Social Media Strategy for your Organization
You’ve dipped your toes into social media: you’ve got a Facebook page, Twitter feed, YouTube channel, and CEO blog set up. But now what?
Back up.
Social media is about free and open conversations online but your organization still needs to have a plan of action. Take a hold of your communications plan and start afresh. This workshop is for organizations that dipped (or maybe dove headfirst) into social media, but are now wondering what the next steps are and how they can make their social media investment more focused and worthwhile.
Attendees Will Walk Away With:
- Knowledge of how social media is changing the way nonprofits operate and what it means to be a networked nonprofit
- Tips on how to determine which social networks your organization's key audiences are using and how to create a social media strategy
- Information on receiving buy-in from staff, management, and boards
Building a successful online campaign for #GivingTuesday
MyCharityConnects Barrie - Back to Basics: Developing a Social Media Strategy for your Organization
1. Back to Basics: Developing a Social Media
Strategy for Your Organization
April 26, 2012
2. What is CanadaHelps?
A public charitable foundation that provides accessible and
affordable online technology to both donors and charities.
For Charities
A cost-effective means of raising funds online.
For Donors
A one-stop-shop for giving.
CanadaHelps is a charity helping charities.
CanadaHelps is giving made simple.
13. Letting Go
• Control
• YOUR attachment to
the organization
• Doing what “we’ve
always done”
Opening Up
• To meaningful
involvement from
donors, clients,
volunteers, public
etc…
23. • How is your organization embracing
the social culture shift?
• What barriers do you face?
Culture Shift
24. Tips for Getting Buy-In
• Sign people up for tools to reduce fear
(Twitter, Google Reader, alerts etc…)
• Seek out example organizations and show
their success
• Search for your organization & show the
conversation’s already happening
25. Bust Myths
• Bust myths:
– 73% of donors gave online in 2010
– Baby boomers are the biggest cohort of online donors
in Canada
– More than 17 million Canadians use Facebook
– Per capita, Canadians watch more YouTube videos
than any other country
31. How your organization uses social media
• Marketing and publicity
• Fundraising, donor engagement
and retention
• Connecting with others around
your cause
• Building relationship and online
community
• Collaboration and collective action
• Sharing expertise on our issues
• Movement building and social
change
32. • Gain exposure
• Engagement
• Influence
• Action
• Create lasting
impact
• Offer support
Set Goals
From Don Bartholomew: http://metricsman.wordpress.com/
33. EXAMPLE #1
Collaboration and collective action around an
unfair piece of legislation
GOALS
• Connect with like-minded organizations to
coordinate actions
• Energize an online community to take action
34. Pick the Right Tools
• Which tools best support your goals?
• Where’s your audience?
• What capacity do you have?
35. EXAMPLE #2
Share expertise on our cause within our local
community.
GOALS
• Use our blog to position ourselves as the go-to
source for local media on our issue
• Lead conversations with other local organizations
about key issues relating to our mission.
36. Tools You Can Use
THE BIG FOUR:
• Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, YouTube
OTHERS TO EXPLORE:
• Blogs, Google+, Tumblr,
Foursquare, Pinterest,
Instagram (now owned by
Facebook)
37. Fish Where the
Fish Are
• 25% of all time
online is spent
on Facebook
• Survey
supporters about
the tools they
use
42. Role of Community
Manager
• Understand & advocate
for the community
• Listen & engage
• Problem solve & prevent
crises
• First point-of-contact
• Lead the community to
action
43. Characteristics of a
Good Community
Manager
• Have a personality
• Be passionate about
the cause
• Care about the
community
• Leadership
• Don’t try to control
• Be prepared
44. Have a Vision for Success
• Strong online communities have a clear rallying cry and
committed members
• What would your ideal online community look like?
• What actions would they take?
45. • Who are they? (Middle-aged men, young
mothers, teens from Parkdale etc…)
• Motivations
• Other communities & online activities
Know Your Community
48. Nurture All Community Members
Happy
Spreaders Donors Evangelists Instigators
Bystanders
Engaging,
Regular Reasons to Resources & Ongoing
interesting
communication give tools support
content
Links to easily Peer-to-peer Recognition
Thanks and
share content fundraising
praise!
Good stories Creative ideas
Stories about
they can
the impact of
spread
their giving
Opportunities
to engage
offline
49. • Statement of purpose for
the community
• Community rules around
respect
• Moderation and deletion
of comments
• Privacy statement
• How you will use the
posts (i.e. marketing
material, fundraising
etc…)
• Prohibited posts
Terms of Use
50. Think Multi-Channel
• Engage on other media
• Collect contact information when possible
• Provide offline opportunities when possible
51. Look Outside
• Find your ideal community on other networks
• Join the ongoing conversation
• Mobilize fundraising campaign with existing
network
53. Know Your Audience
• Define your key audiences
• Describe them
– Get specific
– What do they do?
– What do they care about?
– What moves them to action?
• What do we want them to do?
59. • Remember the number ONE
• Focus on HOPE, HUMOUR, SURPRISE,
EMPATHY [less on fear, anger, hurt]
• Appeal to IDENTITY (from Made to Stick)
PRINCIPLES OF GOOD STORYTELLING
60.
61. Other Good Social Content
• Resources, useful information, educational… but
make it stick
• Events/urgencies
• Controversies, thought-provokers
• Reviews
• Questions, conversation-starters
62. Stats & Data
• Use with caution
• Make them concrete
• Make them relevant
• Focus on one stat at a
time
70. EXAMPLE #2
Share expertise on our cause within our local
community.
GOALS
• Use our blog to position ourselves as the go-to
source for local media on our issue
• Lead conversations with other local organizations
about key issues relating to our mission.
71. Smart Objectives
• Increase blog subscribers by
50% over the next 12 months
• 30% of blog posts contain
active discussion in the
comments about the issues
raised – more than 3
comments
• Increase website traffic from
blog by 100% over next 12
months
• Increase media calls related to
blog topics by 25% over the
next two years.
73. Social Media Data
• Subscribers/ Unsubscribes
• Followers/ Unfollows
• Comments/ Unique commenters
• Favourites
• Video/photo views
• Retweets
• Likes
• Page/post views
• # of posts
74. Social Media Data
• Most popular posts
• Conversations
• Feedback
• Repeat supporters
• Comments
• Recommendations
• Click-throughs
• Donations
• Sign-ups
75. Your Measurement Tools
• Google Analytics
• Google Alerts
• Twitter search
• Facebook Insights
• Blog statistics
• Hootsuite
• Bit.ly & other link
trackers (Trick.ly)
• Surveys
83. MyCharityConnects Conference 2012
JUNE 12 – 13 | Allstream Centre, Toronto
Collaborate to build a stronger sector.
Innovate to solve complex problems.
Celebrate our work and the difference we’re making.
• Join non-profits from across Canada and social media
experts for the premier social media and online
fundraising learning opportunity of the year.
• Registration opens in February
www.mycharityconnects.org/conference
84. 2012 MyCharityConnects Webinars
www.mycharityconnects.org/webinars
Join us for these FREE online information sessions that cover topics relating to online technology,
social media and fundraising. Registration is open to employees, volunteers, and board members of
Canadian charities and nonprofits.
April 25 - Essential Twitter Tips for Your Charity
May 9 - Preparing for a Website Redesign
May 23 - Editorial Calendar Essentials: Organize &
Plan Your Online Communications
June 27 - Elements of a Great YouTube Video