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Social media for non-profits presentation for the Green Bay Non-Profit Resource Group meeting.TRANSCRIPT
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Non-Profit Resource Group
Social Media & Social Networking for Non-Profits
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About : Dana VanDen Heuvel Dana VanDen Heuvel is an award-winning marketing blogger, author of the American Marketing Association's Marketech Guide to Marketing Technology and the MySpace, YourSpace, TheirSpace Guide to Social Network Marketing and the creator of the AMA's TechnoMarketing training series. Dana is a widely recognized expert on blogging, podcasting, RSS, Internet communities and interactive marketing trends and best practices and speaks regularly on these topics at industry events. Dana founded BlogSavant, one of the nation's first weblog and social media marketing consultancies and currently runs The MarketingSavant™ Group, a marketing technology consulting and training firm that helps marketers leverage emerging marketing technology to reach and keep customers. Learn more from Dana's blog at www.marketingsavant.com.
The MarketingSavant Group is a specialist company that focuses on transforming our clients into the preeminent thought leaders and trusted advisors in their industry. Through our thought leadership marketing approach and deep experience in digital and social media marketing we do extraordinary work for B2B clients to move your entire organization beyond the competitive realm and into the unique niche of industry thought leader. We focus on genuine organizational transformation through marketing, innovation, intellectual capital development and not on producing a campaign that’s merely a quickly forgotten flavor-of-the-month tool. We formed MarketingSavant to work with ethical, intellectual, innovative and challenging clients in the Business-to-Business market sector. Our approach and our philosophy are to always put altruism before capitalism. We do well by doing good, and we like to work with clients who share our philosophy.
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Presentation Outline
• Fundamentals
1) Social Media: What Is It?
2) What are Non-Profits doing in social media?
3) Understand your supporters’ use of social media
4) Social media strategies & channels for NPO
5) Go beyond the social media staples
6) Build your social media strategy
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Exercise: Level-Set on Social Media
1. What do YOU think social media is all about?
2. What are you doing with social media & marketing technology today?
3. What do you expect to be able to DO with social media?
4. How should success LOOK, FEEL and SOUND?
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Social Media is the #1 Activity on the Internet!
via: WWW.VIRTU-ASSIST.COM
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Already Embrace It
Just Jumped on Board
Still Need Convincing
37% of marketers still do not include social media as part of their
marketing.
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More Simply Put:
“Social Media is starting conversations
with people and encouraging them to
pass it on.”
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Hosting Conversations
Personal or “beginner” social media is about creating relationships and engaging in online social media. For your organization, social media is really about hosting relevant conversations that engage your target audiences.
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More Simply Put:
“Facebook or Twitter shouldn’t be the end goal of a social media strategy any
more than a telephone should be the end goal of a
communications plan.”
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Nonprofits Social Media Usage
Source: IdealWare - The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide
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What Can Social Media Do?
• Connect on deeper and more meaningful levels
• Create real relationships, not temporary transactions
• Provide “value-added” and relevant points of connection
• Serve as a real-time channel for communication and public relations opportunities
• Build community
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Opportunities With Social Media
• 66% of comm. pros have done nothing with the feedback gleaned from social media
– Learn, engage, build community
• 49% of orgs still do not have a specific approach to social media
– Develop and deploy a strategy
• This is a chance to open to entire organization to the opportunities provided by social media
Source: PRWeek Social Media Survey
Who’s Out There in Social Media?
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Understand Your Audience
Millennials have shifted a lot of their communication with friends to social media. 84% are email subscribers, 46% are Facebook fans, 6% are Twitter followers.
Social networking use among those ages 50 and older nearly doubled over the past year. Half (47%) of internet users ages 50-64 and one in four (26%) users age 65 and older now use social networking sites.
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If You’re Online…You’re In Social Media
Source: Universal McCann Social Media Tracker Wave 3
But…It Can Be…“Complicated”
Source: Brian Solis
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Social Content
Social Platforms
The Social Media Channels
BLOGS
VIDEOS MICROBLOGS
AUDIO (PODCAST)
PHOTOS
BRANDED SOCIAL NETWORKS
WIKIS
WHITE-LABEL SOCIAL NETWORKS
EMAIL (BACN)
SMS and TEXT
EVENTS and CALENDARS
STATUS UPDATES
Social media is created and shared within social platforms: status updates and similar interactions drive participation by increasing visibility of use.
Social Interactions
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An Array of Social Media Tools
• Blogs
– Individual, Public
• Wikis
– Project & Community Enabling
• Social Networks
– Linkedin, Facebook, MySpace
• Microblogging
– Twitter, FriendFeed
• Forums/Groups
– Google Groups, open knowledge sharing
• Online Video
– YouTube, blip.tv, Vimeo
• File Sharing / Podcasting
– Scribd, Slideshare
• User Community
– Private knowledge sharing
• Bookmarking
– Digg, Delicious, Reddit
• WOM (Word of Mouth)
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It Can Also Be Distracting… • Why you must have a
strategy in place
• Mobilize your volunteers, donors, advocates and everyone else to help with social media efforts
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Your Mission:
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/marketing/tp/writing101.htm
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What is the goal?
• Seth Godin has talked about raving fans. For non-profit organizations and charities, I think a better word is believers, advocates, your “Tribe” or whatever…
• Your tribe can be workers, contributors, donors, volunteers, board members and beneficiaries of your services.
• The goal? Build a bigger tribe and base of believers
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Your Website
• Your “home base”
• Sets the tone, authority and mission – needs to be “perfect”
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Everything should have at least two homes (if not more)
• The first, where it originated, the second the overall home, which is your website/blog
• Network tools should connect believers and tell the world where to find your information
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Hub and Outpost social media architecture
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Tufts University
The university has an entire site dedicated to Web 2.0 tools like wikis, podcasts, conferencing, and more.
The Social Media Toolkit
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Social Media Listening
• What are people saying about your organization?
• Your competitors?
• Your tribe?
• Your peers?
• Services to try: Radian6, TweetBeep, TweetAlert, Google Alerts
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Listen to the Conversation • Be transparent. Be open and
honest in all communication.
• Be ethical. Live by the WOMMA Practical Ethics Toolkit
• Be relevant. Share information and perspectives that are valuable to the online community
• Personalize and be personable.
• Address negative discussion head-on.
• Court evangelists & advocates.
Even if you’re not ready to join the conversation, it pays to have a sound strategy for dealing with any social media conversation taking place about your brand.
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Free
Scratch the Surface
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Comcast provides support via Twitter
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Get Blogging (Transparency)
• You “almost need a blog”
• Dynamic vs. static content
• Audiences ‘connect’ with blogs
• Metaphor for:
– Transparent communication
– Authenticity
– Responsibility
– Reputation
• “Connectable platform” (Wordpress, Typepad)
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Why Blogs?
• Those who use blogs and social networking sites as an outlet for civic engagement are far more active in traditional realms of political and nonpolitical participation than are other internet users. In addition, they are even more active than those who do not use the internet at all. (PEW Internet – 9/09)
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The Blogging Process
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Even if you have great website, consider a blog site. Remember, content and conversation are paramount.
The best non-profits connect supporters to their website, blog and to other relevant social medias sites where your audience hangs out.
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Job Volunteer Site
• Even if the budget is small, it never hurts to try to find great people.
• Because of our current economic situation, more people are willing to build portfolios through volunteer work.
• Many free options for this type of site.
• Another way to create believers
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Communities
• A community is NOT always a necessary part of a social media strategy.
• For NPs, it usually is.
• If your NP is local, it definitely is.
• Services to try: Ning, KickApps, HiveLive, CrowdVine, CollectiveX, Me.com
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• Events
• Fan Pages
• Groups
• Personal Pages of Believers
• Paid Advertisements
• Causes
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Facebook Ads
• Quick Targeting
–Age
–Education
– Location
–Gender…
• Start/Pause/Stop
• CPC Basis
• Export Reports
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Facebook Causes
• Start a Cause
• Raise $$
• Show Fundraising Momentum
• In order to accept donations through Causes, a nonprofit must be a 501(c)3 that is also registered with GuideStar
• Payments through Network for Good
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Microblogging (Twitter)
• Easy, free access to distribution of your marketing tools
• Requires little “buy-in” from believers or potential believers
• Another way for your tribe to share your message
• Search allows you to connect with your tribe
• Easy to cross-reference more “in-depth” tools
• To try: Twitter, FriendFeed, Seesmic
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Microblogging
Links: 26 Charities and Non-Profits on Twitter
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• American Cancer Society
• “More Birthdays”
Driving Conversations
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Using Video
Easy, free way for people to really “get involved” from afar.
Services to try: vimeo, viddler, 12second.tv, ustream.com, and mogulus.
Stream from your computer or invest in a small flip camera.
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Share Things
Like Photos… …and Videos
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Podcasts & Vodcasts
• More human & emotional than blogging
• Be found on Google
• Low investment
• Easy distribution
• Differentiator
• Share more than text
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Where are all the pretty pictures?
• Don’t forget to represent your events, your believers, your workers with pictures.
• This is way more important than most people realize.
• Stock is stupid. I want to see your FACE.
• To Try: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, Facebook, Twitpic
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Social Media Overkill?
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Feature: Friendfeed
• Consolidate
• Simplify
• Track
• Comment
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Build a Widget
• Widgets can be placed on the desktop, the home page or on a blog
• They bring functionality like fundraising to almost any digital location
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What’s the Time Commitment?
Who’s Leading by Example?
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LIVESTRONG
3 Lessons:
1)Grassroots is natural application
2)Build in collaborative opportunities
3)Leverage the tools that already exist
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Goodwill uses social media to increase sales of its high-end merchandise
Toolkit Blog Facebook fan page YouTube Videos Twitter stream eBay sales page
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A Few Good Stats
• Over 11,500 unique visitors to the virtual fashion show 9/12 launch
• Over 42,000 page views • 16% of fashion show visitors have been converted into online
Goodwill shoppers • Fashion Show Visitors from 31 countries and 48 states plus DC • 48% of fashion show visitors are from the DC, MD, VA region (the
area we serve) • Blog is averaging between 600 & 700 visitors a week • 5.6% of blog visitors are being converted into online Goodwill
shoppers • Blog visitors from 77 countries and all 50 states Brick & mortar stores during the two weeks following
the launch of the fashion show: • Customer count + 6.6% • Rack sales (clothing) + 16.5% • Total sales + 8.275%
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Goodwill of Greater Washington
3 Lessons:
1) Incorporate Into Marketing Strategy
2) Regional Execution
3) Entertainment + Trust = Desire to Shop
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Alzheimer Society/ Twitter
• Feature: Use of Twitter for Awareness. A Million Tweets to Remember Campaign
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Brooklyn Museum/ Integration
• Feature: The Brooklyn Museum
Integrated Campaigns
Social Media
Magazines
TV and Radio
Direct Mail Online
Advertising
Now What?
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The 12-Step Plan!
1. Outline Your Objectives
2. Risk Profile
3. Define Your Audience(s)
4. Social Media Content
5. Determine Integration Points
6. Culture Change and Adaptation?
7. Enterprise Social Media Assessment
8. Policy / Protocols
9. Choose Social Channels (Tools & Tactics)
10. Capacity and Commitment
11. Social Media Systems
12. Measurement
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Social Media Strategy
1) WHY? Why are you interested in social media? 2) Why do you want a social media plan for the
organization? 3) What objectives are we trying to meet?
1) Outcomes that are essential to the project
4) How will we know when we get there? (metrics) 1) Objective or subjective measures 2) Qualitative or quantitative 3) Indication of progress
5) What’s the value of accomplishing your objectives? 1) Demonstrable value 2) Represents actual improvement in the current conditions
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“Our social media strategy is pretty simple. It is essentially to humanize the company by connecting our constituents with our employees and with each other when possible, to provide value along the way.”
-- Scott Monty, Digital Comm. Manager, Ford Motors
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Work Out Your Social Media Policy
• New media channels and internet services have changed the way we communicate – Personal information at display on blogs, Facebook etc.
– The line between the personal and the professional sphere gets blurred.
– Corporate information available from lots of sources.
– Users spread information about brands, products and companies.
• Internet allows viral spread of information – Bad news travel fast.
– Good news can also travel fast.
– Media and the blogosphere influence each other.
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De Paul Social Media Policy
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A social media policy should…
"The true goal of every type of social media or web policy should be to make interacting on the social web easier, more comfortable, and safer for your stakeholders."
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A good social media policy will…
• Educate as well as guide
• Provide instructive input to equip people with basic new media knowledge
• Complement an existing code of conduct
• “Educate on”, respect and enforce privacy guidelines
• Set constructive boundaries
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Navigate the Social Media Barriers
1. Lack of internal resources/time
2. Lack of knowledge/expertise
3. Not convinced about the value/ROI
4. Lack of clear guidelines/policies
5. Lack of awareness of social media within company
6. Lack of budget
7. Social media not appropriate for company/brand
8. Fear negative reaction from customers
9. Lack of global reach/scale
10. Lack of appropriate agency partner
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Understand Your Organization
Social Media is a NOT a universal answer!
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Take Lessons from Leading Brands
• Deputize people throughout the organization • Understand each channel’s unique engagement • Find champions • Centralize coordination • Be in it for the long haul • Pick channels carefully • Fish where the fish are • Support engagement as an extension of company culture • Encourage employees to use social media to get work done • Make social media part of the job • Modularize and Synchronize across channels (activity
streams)
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For Tomorrow
• Draft your social media policy • Get started on your strategy • Identify your internal constituents:
– Identify one opportunity based on listening and address it.
• Implement One Idea – Choose one social channel and implement one idea.
Integrate it into your current communications program and measure it.
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