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Brilliant
Comms
on a
budget
#charitywritecomms
Creative Communications
Enabling charities to create high impact
communications with minimal resources.
Dawn has trained over 300 charities on
how to improve their social media
management.
Training session - outline
Welcome and introduction
1 – Define topics & tone
2 – Study your audience
3 – Social media & email
Break
4 – Master storytelling
5 – Review and refine
Q&A
Close
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What are
your goals?
Jot down 3 things
you want to get from
the session today
• Printed
• Telephone
• SMS
• TV ads
• Print media
• Billboards
• Telephone
• SMS
• Newsletter
• Letters
• Meetings
• Noticeboard
• Intranet
• Instant messaging
• Social media
• Website
• Video
• Ads/listings
Online external
Online internal
Offline external
Offline Internal
Channels
"Good ideas are
free - or at least
they should be." - Matthew
McConaughey
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How do
you get
inspiration?
=
Feed Your Brain To Get New Ideas
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My top 5
thrifty
comms tips
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Define topics and tone
What do you do?
Where do you do it?
Who do you help?
Popular topics related to your work
Creating your own topic map
Work in small
groups to
create mind
maps
8 minutes
How could we use the topics?
Campaigns Hashtags Blogs Email
Word cloud
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Tone of voice It’s not what you say—
it’s how you say it!
Tone of voice #charitywritecomms
If your charity was a person
how would you describe
their communication style?
Assertive?
Friendly?
Authoritarian?
Why does it matter?
• It sets you apart
• It builds trust
• It’s an expression of the people behind the brand
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Even the colours
you choose send
a message
Study your audience
Be
constantly
curious
What
motivates
them? What do
they need?
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Why should
they care?
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@gapingvoid
Hugh MacLeod, Cartoonist
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Your audience
Draw a portrait of your key target groups
You have 5 minutes
• Who are they?
• What kind of job do they have?
• What activities/interests?
• What problem/s do you help them solve?
What is social media? Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to
participate in social networking.
Platforms Tw
itte
r • Text limit
• Hashtags
• Lists
• Trends
• Tagging
• TV show live
• Good for B2B
• Fast paced
• Photo albums
• Videos
• Tagging
• Scheduling
• Personal space
• Posting 1 or 2 times a day
• Analytics
Inst
agra
m
• Square photos
• Filters
• Short videos
• Stories
• Hashtags
• Tagging
• Boomerang
• Analytics
Brainstorm – what are the differences between them?
Social Listening “I remind myself every morning:
Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
- Larry King
Why Is Social Listening Important?
Researching
Understanding Audiences
Discovering mentions (when users do not use your correct handle or hashtags)
Seeing what and what not to do
Read more about social listening: http://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-listening/
On average Twitter has more
than 500 million Tweets going
out per day.
A whopping 30% of Tweets
mentioning your company don’t
include your Twitter handle.
In fact, only 9% of Tweets are
actually directed at your brand.
This means more conversations
are happening about you
than with you. Read more on
Sprout Social
Talking about you, not
with you
Listening
Look to successful peers
/ similar organisations
Search relevant / local /
popular hashtags
Weekly search for mentions
of your organisation with variations of the organisation’s name
Join tweet ups and live
feeds
Content
curation
#CharityHour
on Wednesdays
at 8-9PM
#CharityTuesday
Showing
gratitude to
supporters
Lots of
conversations
with followers
Encourage discussion
• Ask questions, run polls
Run competitions
• Winners with most likes/comments
Ask people to share
• Request RT or shares
Create useful content
• Helpful content is shareable
Weekday hashtags:
#Mondayblues or
#Mondaymotivation
#charityTuesday or #CT
or #GivingTuesday or
#TransformationTuesday
#WisdomWednesday or
#Humpday
#ThrowbackThursday or #TBT
#FeelgoodFriday /
#FollowFriday or #FF
#SaturdayShenanigans or
#Caturday
#SundayFunday or #SelfieSunday
www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/instagram-through-the-week-with-these-popular-hashtag-games/
Engagement Increasing engagement:
• Surprising
• Funny
• Ask questions
• Behind the scenes content
• User generated content
• Competitions
How to tap into new audiences:
• Popular hashtags
• TV features
• Build relationships with influencers
• Ask your audience to share with
their networks
Takeover You could also consider a takeover day where you have a guest to run your
social which could be an expert or beneficiary
Read about the very
successful Smear for
Smear campaign
by Kirsty Marrins for the
Guardian and Third
Sector Magazine.
Content Curation Example Steps: 1. Saw this illustration via
@actionhappiness tweet
2. Noticed that point 4 could
be linked to our charity
work
3. Saved the image (right click
4. Created a Tweet and FB post
with our own spin, added
one of our images too and
credited the source
View the tweet: twitter.com/petitmiracles/status/709863538324611072
This post was our most popular this year, partly
due to the link to the popular topic (happiness)
Curation Works
• Photos get a 35% boost in RTs
• Videos get a 28% boost
• Quotes get a 19% boost in RTs
• Including a number receives a
17% bump in RTs
• Hashtags receive a 16% boost
Engagement
by Post Type Research by Twitter Media Blog
Using Questions To Increase Engagement
Question Poll? Images
Write a tweet of up to 100 characters (which has been found to be the optimal length)
You have 5 minutes
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A few ideas to get you started:
Invite people to a
community event
Raise awareness of
an important issue
and ask people to
sign a petition
Ask people to donate
or fundraise for you
Ask people to sign up
to get ideas and
information about
getting healthier
Ask people to share
their story
Ask people to apply
for your volunteering
opportunities or job
roles
Great Use Of
Questions To
Invite
Interaction
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Increasing engagement - Choose your bait
New
experiences
Meet new
people
Feel part of
something
Make a
difference
Share skills
Learn
something
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Email Marketing
1. Be personal and friendly
2. Keep it simple – 3 key messages
3. Intriguing subject lines
4. Beautiful imagery
5. 80/20 rule – 80% useful content 20% promo
6. Constantly improve (use analytics)
Break
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“You may tell a tale that takes up
residence in someone's soul,
becomes their blood and self and
purpose. That tale will move them
and drive them and who knows that
they might do because of it,
because of your words. That is your
role, your gift.”
- Erin Morgenstern
WHY STORYTELLING?
http://blog.actionsprout.com/dramatically-improve-nonprofit-storytelling-
skills/
The greatest stories never told!
http://www.abccopywriting.com/2013/12/10/what-really-makes-a-good-story
“The story is one of the basic
tools invented by the mind of
man(kind) for the purposes of
gaining understanding.
There have been great societies
that did not use the wheel, but
there have been no great
societies that did not tell
stories.”
-Collison, 1999
http://www.ollieheath.com/story-telling/
http://research.northumbria.ac.uk/support/2012/10/23/telling-a-good-story-impact-case-studies-as-narrative-arc/
The narrative arc
Humans of New York
“After I was born, I was the subject of a
45-minute dissertation at Columbia
University. Almost all of my organs were
born externally, and had to be sewn into
my body. I don’t have a belly button--
only a scar where my feeding tube used
to be. My mother even tells me that she
wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to stand,
eat, or drink. But now I can rollerblade. I
can do a handstand on my crutches. I’ve
got a core group of friends, a girlfriend,
a college degree, and I’m helping to
manage a radio station at the age of 23.”
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/113888262551/after-i-was-born-i-was-the-subject-of-a
Tackling Stories
First Person And Overcoming Adversity Third Person And Sharing Real
Situations
People Love To
Go Behind The
Scenes
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This Girl Can
https://twitter.com/thisgirlcanuk/status/568515395608395776
Turning
Stereotypes
On Their
Head
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Video Is The Future
Social video statistics Facebook now sees 8 billion average daily video
views from 500 million users
Snapchat users watch 6 billion videos every day
US adults spend an average of 1 hour, 16 minutes
each day watching video on digital devices
78% of people watch online videos every week,
55% watch every day
Youtube statistics
300 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute
There are 3.25 billion hours of video watched each month
More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices
The average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40
minutes
On average, there are 1,000,000,000 mobile video views per
day
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Dementia UK Case Study Film
https://www.dementiauk.org/kelly-and-ians-story/
Admiral Nurses
by Magneto Films
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“
”
If you aren't using your
video 10 different ways...
Don't waste your time SAYS @JUDEHABIB OF SOUNDDELIVERY
• We should repurpose our content and share it in many different ways
• Do you have an impact report? Could you pull content out to share online?
Quoting Emotive
Video Content
How could we use storytelling?
• Pre or post event interviews
• Using statistics like the ones in the LYG infographic
• Ask participants why they love to volunteer
• Share failures and successes
• Share tips and advice
• Gather quotes and testimonials
• Use short video on Instagram (3 to 15 seconds long)
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How can we
bring our
stories to
life?
• Use humour
• Comic strip
• Images
• Video / Audio
• Show impact
• Use quotes
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Share a story
Share a real story that was
memorable or touched you in
some way
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Photo editing tools Free to install on your phone
Photo editing tools
Desktop apps Picasa – edit photos, add text and create collages
Canva / Picmonkey – in browser edit and resize photos, has layers
Pixlr – add text, edit images and add lots of effects
Mobile apps Over
PicsArt
No crop
Picgrid
Review and Refine
Analytics
Review what works
• Take risks, these
will show up on
your analytics
• Highlight what
works and record
patterns
• Set a regular time
in your calendar to
review your stats
Setting goals &
planning campaigns
Reach beneficiaries
Raise awareness
Campaign
Recruit volunteers
Fundraise #charitywritecomms
facebook.com/groups/thirdsectorcomms/
charityconnect.co.uk/
morellomarketing.com/charitymeetup
Barcampnfp
NFPtweetup
Peer Support
Final thought “I've learned that people will forget
what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget
how you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou
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Download the slides http://bit.ly/commsmorello
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