Michael Hoffman - Create a Story (and Tell it Too)
1. Create a Story (and
Tell it Too)
The Intersection of Online Video
and Nonprofit Social Media
Michael Hoffman
See3 Communications
E. michael@see3.com
P. 773-784-7333
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2. Who Am I?
• Former senior nonprofit fundraiser
and political consultant
• Online marketing and
communications specialist
• Founded See3 Communications to
merge video and the web for richer
donor engagement experiences
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3. See3 Communications
• Full service online
marketing agency for
nonprofits & causes
• New media to activate
people and advance social
causes
• Focus on video as a way to
push compelling stories and
create impact
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8. Why Video Matters
Online Video Up Across Every
Metric of Usage
In December 2010 ComScore reported
that 85% of US internet users watched
online video, 88.6 million people
watched online video on an average
single day, up 32% from December
2009
(ComScore, February 2011)
Video Is Growing
Cisco predicts that 90% of the web’s
data will be video within four years
(ComScore Video Metrix)
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9. YouTube: Why Video Matters
Every Single Minute
48 hours of video are uploaded to
YouTube
Every Single Day
YouTube receives over 3 billion
views and users spend about 3
billion hours on the site each
month
The Average User
Spends between 15 and 25
minutes every day on the site
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13. FINDING YOUR
STORY:
Look around
• What makes you
lean forward?
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14. MAKING YOUR STORY WORK
WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?
A clear message – you know exactly what you’re trying to say to them. You are
saying it in the clearest way possible
WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO REACH?
Clear understanding of who you’re trying to reach – your audience is specific,
there’s no such thing as a general public
WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO DO?
A clear call to action – you know exactly what you want them to do
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27. YouTube TrueView
• New video platform that integrates YouTube
advertising with Google AdWords
• Currently in beta
• Incredible opportunity for NPOs to leverage the
scale of Google/YouTube
• Great niche targeting
• Scalable costs
• Pay as you go
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Storytelling can be anything— It is an overused term right now
In fact More video content is is uploaded to Youtube in a 60 day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years. Each minute 48 hours of video are uploaded and each day the site receives about 3 billion views globally.
Storytelling can be anything— It is an overused term right now
The best stories make complex ideas to simple. If possible keep your story to one message, idea, theme; viewer often miss the point you really want too make if you present them with too many secondary messages
Video works most effectively when it creates a sense of identification between the viewer and the people in the story. People connect to people. As a result, be careful not to make your story about ideas, programs or policies, but the people who personify them.
Feelings make people act. Avoid policy talk and intellectualized language.
Viddy is like the Instgram of Video. It let ’s your staff and followers make and share video from virutally anywhere. Social sharing with Viddy, as you'd expect, is also very user-friendly. You can quickly share your advocates' videos on your organization's Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Google+ page
Use Facebook to push video to your followers.
The YouTube Nonprofit Program offers free live streaming to members