4. Don’t let the platform define
what you measure.
Go back to your strategic
objectives.
5. Facebook
• Casual, fun, community
space
• “Behind the scenes”
view of Connecting Up
• Key metrics:
– Reach
– Engagement touch
points
• Of interest:
– Traffic to website
– Connect with partners
6. Twitter
• Resource sharing
• Direct communications
with individuals
• Key metrics:
– Retweets
– Mentions
– Content shares
• Of interest:
– “Influencer” engagement
– #npau use
8. HootSuite Features
• Post to multiple accounts on networks
– Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ Pages,
FourSquare, Wordpress
• Post scheduling
– Auto-scheduling (next best time)
– Bulk scheduling
• Monitoring searches
• URL shortener
• Team management
9. HootSuite Analytics
• Available for “Pro”
users
• Cost: ~$10 p/m (20%
NFP discount
available)
– Also includes 1 extra
team member
– Unlimited social
accounts
16. Let’s get visual!
Infogr.am
• Infographics
• Pay to export
• New video
infographic
service
Piktochart
• Infographics
• Free version
• Nonprofit pricing
Animoto
• Create short
videos
• Integrate photos,
video, text and
music
• Mobile
• Nonprofit pricing
Manage our marketing and communications across Australasia
3 and a half years at connecting up
The battle station:
We primarily use Facebook and Twitter but also have a presence on other platforms (e.g. pinterest, g+, LinkedIn and slideshare)
Social media efforts are part of a broader marketing and communications strategy that helps us stay focused on what we’re using it for.
Purpose: Inform people about the need to be strategic about their use of each platform and don’t measure just because you can.
There are “vanity metrics” like Twitter followers, but you need to tie what you’re measuring back to what you’re trying to achieve from a communications/marketing point of view.
There are LOTs of metrics when it comes to online data, but not everything is valuable.
Purpose: Explain that we use Facebook as a ‘lighter side’ insight into Connecting Up rather than sales messages. We share content we feel others will want to share and we tie that to our key metrics
Purpose: We use Twitter differently to FB and it’s more about resource sharing and connecting directly with individuals, we also use it to drive conversations at conferences.
We use HootSuite to manage our social media accounts
Some of the key features that we like about HootSuite
Also includes analytics!
Requies a Pro account (available through us!!). Pro account includes enough for 1 report, can buy credits for more reports
Build reports from modules from various social networks. Reports can also be shared if people in org need them.
But HootSuite isn’t the be-all and end-all, There are times where we’ll employ different means of ‘measuring’ and here are a few tools worth mentioning. For example, FB Insights are very good for community data (e.g. demographics, when people are online).
[all hail the Excel spreadsheet] But sometimes we can’t get away from the old excel spreadsheet especially if we need to report internally on different aspects of what we do
How we display our data will depend on who wants to see it. We have a number of stakeholders when it comes to our social media presence
Just some of the stakeholders
-Board wants to see trends
Exec wants to see strategic links to other activities
M&C wants to see coordination of communications
CS wants to know how many help questions we get
Conference attendees like to see the wrapups of how many tweets, who sent the most etc.
You can present your data in different ways depending on who you’re showing it to. We’ve used pure numbers, graphs and Powerpoint presentations but these are a few free tools that are also easy to use and could be handy for different audiences.