What is your story, goals, audience look like? Take a look at your organization and how to share your social media stories for impact, outreach, fundraising, volunteer growth, advocacy and education in this worksheet (and slides) created by Evonne Heyning for TechSoup Global
2. Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan
Fill in your gaps! #smplan @CNMsocal @CalEndow Hosted by @amoration
Cause, campaign or organizational plan
Mission:
What do you want to accomplish?
Why?
Measurable Goals:
Call to Action Request:
Digital Storytelling: What is your story?
Who do you want to participate?
How do they participate?
Describe your organizational voice and brand:
Authority Positions?
Timelines:
STRATEGIC PLANNING
DELEGATION & PRODUCTION
WELCOMING INITIATION
PROGRAM CONTENT RELEASES
CLIMAX & CONCLUSION
ANALYSIS & WRAPUP
3. Transmedia Marketing Elements
Circle channels & storytelling modes appropriate for this campaign
Video (short) Documentary Other film/TV Streaming Media Events Games
Geocaching Online Ads Live Storytelling Comics Entertainment Education
Print Media Visual Advertising Websites New Channels _______________
Social Sites: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+ Quora Groups____________________
Other Niche Web Communities
Outreach Distribution & Outlets
Who runs your social sites: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+ YouTube Curation
Communities & Groups_________________________________________________________
Do you share your content using Creative Commons?
Crowdsourcing, Open APIs and other Shareable Data?
Hashtags for Analysis Tracking
Other Tags & Sites for Research
Budget
Resource & Staff impact
Number of hours needed to succeed
Number of staff members required
Number/Time of volunteers
Timing and Investment Needed
Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan Hosted by Evonne Heyning @amoration
For more on how to track, share, collect and curate your stories for the web visit
www.techsoup.org and request software for your 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
4. Live Collaboration: Interactive, Mobile & Social Events
Live Participatory Events, Webinars, Local and Global Conversations
Watchitoo — TechSoup NPlive web series video integrates images, YouTube and social chat,
Q&A, collaborative whiteboard for global meetings, public educational events with
participation, and remote engagement for dozens via webcam. http://watchitoo.com/ and
watch our work at http://bit.ly/tsgnplive
Tweetchats — Hashtag conversations, scheduled and topical. Visit a TweetChat #NPtagging
conversation from TechSoup @NCVS or make a room at www.tweetchat.com
CoverItLive — Embeddable tool for interactive typed live chat for topical events.
www.coveritlive.com
UStream Producer — Cloud and mobile application produces HD live audio/video streaming
events with many inputs from video to screen and microphone control.
www.ustream.tv/producer
ReadyTalk — Webinar production with integrated slides, screen sharing, live moderated chat,
high-quality recorded audio available for download. www.readytalk.com
Windows LiveMeeting — Convergence software allowing for integration across Microsoft Office
and Outlook, synchronized audio/video for webinars and meetings. http://bit.ly/livemeet
Mobile: Sharing Information on the Fly, from Your Smartphone
WebExand GoToMeeting, available through TechSoup, offer free iPad and mobile apps for your
devices. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools.
Facebook — We post frequently to our TechSoup Facebook page from our laptops, tablets and
phones by tagging @TechSoup in our updates. Look for TechSoup Global and send us a
message.
Twitter — The @TechSoup online team tweets using CoTweet and many mobile applications to
share quick updates or live-tweet events.
NPSM Social Media 101 Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for
nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level. Browse it from your phone right now!
Crossplatform ~ Multichannel Integration: Tools, People, and
Information
Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community
of nonprofit organizations collaborating, thriving and building complex 3D interactive
environments and hosting meetings with streaming media and vast volunteerism/action/
learning/simulation experiences.
Sliderocket -- Collaborative presentations integrating social media with slides, videos, Twitter.
Get Sliderocket through TechSoup.
YouTube tutorials — YouTube offers special features just for nonprofits, including the ability to add
fundraising links to your videos along with annotations and interactive elements.
Streaming — Quicktime Broadcaster for video streaming, Audio Hijack and Nicecast for audio.
Skype — Go-to backchannel chat, conference calls, file sharing, recordings. www.skype.com