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Social Media for NonProfits 2012
1. Social Media For
Nonprofits:
Don’t Get Left Behind
April 19, 2012
Eileen O’Brien
@eileenobrien
2. What is Social Media?
• “A social trend in which people
use technologies to get the
things they need from each
other, rather than from
traditional institutions like
corporations”
Groundswell by Charlene Li &
Josh Bernoff
3. Social Media is a Tactic
• Social media is not a strategy but a tactic
• Start with an objective, create a strategy and
determine the best tactics
• Integrate into your overall marketing objectives
• Key to marketing is telling a compelling story
Social media can enable this
4. Is Your Target Audience Using SM?
Source: PewInternet.org
5. How Is Your Target Using SM?
Source: PewInternet.org
6. How Do You Start?
• Recruit the people
within your organization
who are passionate
about social media
• Use it in your own life
and become comfortable
with the technology
• Be selective: start small
and build
7. Monitor Social Media
• Pay attention to what is being said about your
organization
Free Google alerts
Take it private
• Don’t delegate to intern
• Have a crisis communications plan
Be prepared to act quickly using same media
Be nimble
8. Learn from Planned Parenthood
• Komen used SM as another
platform for corporate
announcements
• PP used SM to engage in
continued dialogue with
stakeholders starting well
before the crisis
• Komen’s messaging was
inconsistent, changed course
and tone
Source: Lessons from the Komen Controversy,
SocialMediaToday.com
9. Listen
• Listening may give you insights which will lead the
strategy
• Learn what’s important to your audience
Can you fill a need? How can you add value?
• Check out what the competition is doing
• Pay attention
• Social media has been compared to a cocktail
party
11. Be Thoughtful
• Many social media tools are
free, but they require
resources to create content
and keep them updated
• You can damage your
reputation by starting and
then abandoning social
media projects
• Squat on your name
http://namechk.com
Image courtesy of Striatic on Flickr
12. How Do You Find The Time?
• Integrate into what you
are currently doing
Bring a video to an
interview and post a
teaser on YouTube
• Make a conscious
decision: the time spent
on social media may
mean giving something
else up
Image courtesy of D. Sharon Pruitt on Flickr
13. Use Your Time Wisely
• Measurement is essential
Determine up front how you will measure success
• Did you meet your objective?
More volunteers
Heightened awareness
Donations
Increased event participation
Generated PR
Education on issues
Image courtesy of Jonny Goldstein on Flickr
14. Make It Shareworthy
• Most effective online organizing programs
whether fundraising or advocacy is to
make each of your appeals part of a
campaign
• People give to funds that generate an
emotional response, tell your story
• Articulate in simple terms what you are
trying to do
• Make it urgent, have a deadline
• Make it EASY
17. What’s Twitter?
• A free social networking &
micro-blogging service
that allows users to send
updates or tweets (text-
based posts up to 140
characters long) to anyone
who opts to receive them
• Asks: What’s
happening?
• Per Pew, 13% of American
adults who use the
internet are Twitter users Image courtesy of Robert Scoble on Flickr
19. Types of Accounts
• Organization
100% branded content, don’t follow people or interact
Can be managed by a team, low risk of going off
message
Using interactive tool to push out information, not
establishing relationships
Source: Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
20. Types of Accounts
• Organization With Personality
Employee(s) who tweet are identified & interact with
followers
Makes it personal, builds relationships
May be difficult to scale, succession can be an issue if
person becomes so associated with brand leaves, also
risk of going off message
Source: Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
21. Who To Follow
• Thought leaders and cause enthusiasts
For social media & nonprofits: @kanter, @ntenhross,
@beautifulthangs, @SocialBttrfly, @peterdeitz
• Search on your topics of interest
Look at who others follow
• Take your time
22. How To Get Followers
• Quality over quantity
• When you follow someone send them a tweet
explaining why you are following them
• Search on your area of interest and then answer
questions or respond
“Seek out people you can help and do it!” Wil
Reynolds
• Add yourself to “yellow pages”
http://twellow.com
http://wefollow.com
23. How To Get Followers
• Engage with your
followers, thank them for
support, give them ways
to get involved
• Utilize hashtages
(#word)
• Weekly Chats
Take part in existing ones
or host a Tweetchat
Image courtesy of Christopher Carfi
on Flickr
26. YouTube
• Second largest volume
of searches
• In December 2011
85% of the total U.S.
Internet audience views
online video
182 million U.S. Internet
users viewed 43.5 billion
videos
Source: comScore Image courtesy of Karl Jonsson on Flickr
27. YouTube
• A keyword-tagged video is 50 times more likely
to appear on the 1st page of a Google search
result compared with a traditional web page
according to Forrester Research
• YouTube program for nonprofits
• YouTube Video Volunteers
Can find someone who is willing to use their
equipment and skills to help a nonprofit make a video
28. YouTube Channels
• Free to set up a
YouTube channel
• Centralized place for all
videos, can be branded
& users can subscribe
• Can turn off comments
or use it as another way
to connect
29. How Do You Get Views?
• People have short attention spans, so capture
attention in first 30 second
Keep the whole video short
Have a call to action at the end
Shoot for a computer screen
• Ask for user-generated content
• Tell serial stories which engage viewers & keep
them coming back
• React to current events
• Use endorsements
• Tag & title your videos with relevant keywords
30. How Do You Get Subscribers?
• Subscribe to the YouTube
channels of other
nonprofits, they may do
the same
• Ask people to subscribe
• Share links for your videos
with supporters so they
can help get the word out
Make the embed code
available so people can post
the video on their sites Image courtesy of Todd Huffman on Flickr
32. Facebook
• Nonprofits can create customized pages
• Claim vanity URL
http://www.twitter.com/yournonprofit
• Engage with fans
Comment on their wall posts & help people connect
with others
• Show people how to connect beyond Facebook
Email sign up or drive to website
34. Facebook Stats
• Use the data to understand
what your fans like, don’t
like, what type of content
they interact with the most
and what they share with
their friends
Facebook gives you locale
breakdown and demographic
information
Image courtesy of Sasha Wolff on Flickr
35. How to Get Fans
• Promote via other marketing channels
• Encourage fans to suggest to their friends become
fans
• Run promotion or contest
• Give fans what they want
Be active and add content
70% of all actions on social networks are related to
viewing pictures or viewing other people's profiles
Source: Understanding Users of Social Networks
37. It’s All About Content
• Excellent for search
• Enables thought leadership
• Syndicate content
• Recommend WordPress
• If too time intensive, consider:
Guest blogging
Combining forces
Comment on other blogs
43. Market Social Media
• Integrate the social tactics into the entire
marketing strategy
• Promote social media tactics via all marketing
such as: direct mail, email signature,
newsletters, announce at events
• Leverage your content across various places
Put video on YouTube
Embed it into a blog post
Promote blog post via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
Link to the blog post in an enewsletter
44. Golden Rules
• Social media is all about being human, so have
personality
• Never say anything you wouldn’t say in front of
your mother
• It’s all about building relationships
• Treat others with respect
• Be generous
• Add value
Image courtesy of Jason on Flickr
45. Resources
• ComcastNewMediaExchange.com
• Groundswell
Examples of award winning non-profits
• Beth Kantar
Beth’s Blog: How nonprofits can use social media
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Netsquared
• Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the
Connected Age by AllisonFine
Pew Internet & American Life Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues and trends shaping America. They are a wonderful resource for data and statistics and recommend checking out their website. If you look at this table, it makes sense that age is the biggest predictor of social media use. I highlighted in red some of the social media activities.
Pew Internet & American Life Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues and trends shaping America. They are a wonderful resource for data and statistics and recommend checking out their website. If you look at this table, it makes sense that age is the biggest predictor of social media use. I highlighted in red some of the social media activities.
the data shows us that those who have a social media strategy focused on stakeholder engagement, and manage it consistently before a crisis hits, like Planned Parenthood, are poised to navigate the crisis more successfully. Listening and engaging is more important than driving a defensive message. GaggleAMP analyzed posts made to Facebook and Twitter before and during the crisis. They found that Komen used social media as a monologue (just another platform for corporate announcements) while Planned Parenthood used social media to engage in a continuing dialogue with stakeholders, starting well before the crisis. Komen violated the most important rule of social media advocacy – the need to consistently engage stakeholders. It’s the difference between being credible and authentic versus being seen as out of touch and aloof. Another interesting element revealed by the data is that Komen’s poor handling of the initial messaging – not being consistent, changing course, changing tone – apparently helped organize their opposition. Disciplined message delivery through social media is critical to success in overcoming a crisis.
New content and information are required to “feed the beast”
New content and information are required to “feed the beast”
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You can think of it as an instant message that goes out to lots of people. It can be mundane but it can also be a powerful tool to share information and build relationships. Use Tweedeck or HootSuite
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