top 10 social media tips

How to fight the credit crunch or do more with less

Social Media

10 tips for success

Miles Maier Twitter @LasaICT

Paul Webster Twitter @WatfordGap

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Miles Maier – Lasa

Paul Webster – Lasa

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Social media is online media that starts conversations, encourages people to pass it on to others, and finds ways to travel on its own.

Idealware - http://www.idealware.com

Or...

Is this your social media?

Either way, this session will offer some hints & tips….

... are you using all the tools?

....if Facebook

were a country, it

would be the third

most populated in

the world, ahead

of the United

States.

Only China & India are more populated

• From population of 63.3million, there are 54.8million Internet users

• 96% of internet users aged 18-34 are on one of more social networks

• Use of social networks is 64% of all the time spent on the internet in UK

• Average time spent online per person everyday is 4hr 6mins (1 hr 34m from mobile)

• The main networks - showing active users as % of connected population

• Facebook – 31.5 million users, 26% are aged 25-34 (Comscore – Dec 2013)

• Twitter – 15 million users, 40% just read & don't post (Twitter – Sept 2013)

• Linkedin – 10 million users (Linkedin – Mar 2013)

• Google+ – 3.9 million active users (12.6 mill reg'd) (Weare.social – Dec 2013)

• YouTube – is the second most popular search engine

You’re Famous!

Whatever social media activity you have started, there will be others talking about you.

Don't ignore - Be Aware

10 areas of social media to

consider

1. Get the Hub right

• Use social media to drive traffic to your ‘hub’ or website

• Social media channels are spokes

• Use video/audio for impact

• Interactive and dynamic web is changing the way society interacts with supporters, customers and friends... so very important for a charity too



Colalife website does a good job of pulling together its social media channelswww.colalife.org/

2. OASIS

• Objectives – have clear goals and messages

• Audience – research your audience, who/where are they?

• Story – tell your story

• Implement – pick the right tool to reach your audience

• Sustain – engage and sustain conversations. Make sure to check your ‘metrics’ to know what success looks like

• c/o www.idealware.org

• Don't neglect your 'offline' and use 'hooks' to content

• Encourage people to return with new links and content

• Engage with people on line, be receptive, respond, react

2. OASIS - Planning

O-A-S-I-S:Much planning and design has gone into making this site clear, accessible and easy to use for its target audience

www.healthwatchtorbay.org.uk/

(http://www.slideshare.net/Paulbromford)

3. Tell a good story


1. Once upon a time... Starts the story to introduce the person.

2. And every day... Sets out life before the challenge or incident.

3. Until one day... Action of the story with the challenge & goal.

4. And because of this... Any barriers or obstacles they face.

5. Until finally... This ends the story with the resolution.

•Don't always re-tell an old story, but something real & current.

•Use language familiar to the audience and don't forget Your Organisation already IS a story

•Use your website … a blog … Facebook … YouTube etc.

(From www.networkforgood/npo)

Chef Jamie Oliver supported campaign to get better school meals and link to the “Mary's

Meals” JustGiving campaign raising funds for school food in Africa. Then ...


Started by 9 year old Martha Payne in April 2012 as a school writing project to document lunchtime meals

Seen by social media users … but as not all reviews of the food were good, the local council tried to close it down… which generated MORE interest!

http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/

• A target of £7,000, now (Nov 2014) at £143,341 for Mary's Meals

• A book of the story has been published to raise more funds

• A local council changed it's social media policy

• The blog has over 10,000,000 hits

• But, the important part...

• Children who would have been hungry in African schools are now being fed!


4. It's a conversation

• Build relationships through conversations

• Be prepared to connect people to others, not take all the

limelight ... one day people will connect back to you!

• When your organisation is mentioned - acknowledge and

engage - you never know where it may lead!

• Share generously and give more than you expect back

• We all have a small piece of the jigsaw - between us we

can build the full picture



Example of how a Twitter conversation led to a workshop with a local CVS...

5. Think MobileEverything in this 1991 advert (and more) now in single smartphone.

And for less money.

Affordable Tablet PCs< £80 (e.g. Hudl)

• We spend 3.26hrs/day on smartphone, checking it 221

times... calls are only 5th most popular activity!

• First thing in the morning, last thing at night - make your

organisation's news & stories seen

• Of web users: 98% never more than 3 metres from phone,

31% check Facebook first in bed

• 12.5% of web users don't own a desktop/laptop and mobile

will overtake desktop for web access.

• Tip - Does your website work on a smartphone? Responsive

design that adapts to device being used.

5. Think Mobile

5. Think Mobile

Make a mobile / on-line annual report like www.charitywater.org/

Finding the right tool for the task

http://nptechuk.wordpress.com/sms-links/

From Flickr – Claire Sutton and justinbaeder

6. Media Suitability


• Make it Personable

• Press releases are dull (OK at Start & End of project)

• Use Mixed Media and combinations by audience

• Audio - Soundcloud / Mixlr

• Photos - Instagram / Flickr

• Video - Youtube / Vine

• Some people may be more comfortable speaking than being filmed. Can be just as powerful.

• Have a website – even just a Wordpress, Squarespace or Weebly site to Tell your Stories

7. Be curious on Twitter

• Be a detective - look at who other people follow + their networks

• Be bold – add to conversations in a positive way

• Be visual - share relevant pictures

• Connect and share - give more than you ask, get more than you expect

• Have an attention grabbing biog & profile and promote it

• on Twitter - it's your shop window

• on-line (website) & off-line (e-mail sig & newsletter)

• Lists are your friends – curate lists of people, causes, keywords

• Hashtags are your noise filters - use around topics



https://twitter.com/alzheimerssoc

Promote your cause in the header image

8. Keep it real-life

(http://www.slideshare.net/Paulbromford)

• Don't put anything on social media you'd not want to your mother

to read! Personal / Professional accounts

• Naturally embedded for the whole organisation to use

• Trust Volunteers and Staff to be active on social media

• Empower Managers to share conversations with peers and

lead the organisation's use of technology

• Give Boards & Trustees Confidence the organisations is being

well represented on-line

• Like a face to face meeting, you are representing your

organisation ... but on-line

• Authenticity wins. Don't wear a mask ... be yourself

• Be A Human! Say Thank You!


TNT Social Media Guidelines - Just 2 Pageshttp://www.tnt.com/content/dam/corporate/pdfs/Archive/Presentations/2014/tnt_social_media_employee-guidelines_2014en.pdf


9. Choose the right time

http://flickr.com/photos/61718807@N07/7676798058

• Highest engagement on Facebook in the UK is on Fridays and

on Twitter in the late evenings.

• Have a Daily -> Weekly -> Monthly posting schedule

• If busy, have a plan to maximise your time

• Browse & Reply to followers (35%)

• Monitor Lists, Hashtags & Groups (25%)

• Post your pre-written updates & links (15%)

• Check Analytics & take away actions to tweak (10%)

• Schedule Posts to links or with news (5%)

• It's 24/7. Don't 'walk away' from being social - respond to

immediate alerts and replies to scheduled content or if your

organisation is mentioned



…and use your precious time on the right channels

10. Monitor & Evaluate

• Building relationships matters more than number

• Free tools - some Twitter, some aggregate sites

• Sparkwi.se, Tospy, SocialBro, Social Mention

• Twitter Analytics - https://analytics.twitter.com

• Twitter ratings in Hootsuite - http://grader.hootsuite.com

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FacebookInsights

• Websites – use Google Analytics for stats

• Be flexible if a strategy isn't working - adapt it.



…a work in progress!

Summary - Get these right...• Don't hide from social media - others aren't

• Don't look at social media as 'something different', you can still tell the same stories, but through a better medium

• Clearly see how social media can help whole organisation

• Be visible on line with an accurate profile

• Open and sharing - collaborative with others

• Be social, be human - it's social media not selling media

• Trust staff to speak positively about your cause & aims

• Always respond, Always say thank you

...on the road to social media success

Lasa ICT Knowledgebase – 400 articles on using technology

• www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk

AbilityNet – making technology accessible for all

• www.abilitynet.org.uk

Technology Trust – donated hardware and software

• www.tt-exchange.org

Community How To – doing more with digital

• www.communityhowto.com

KnowHow NonProfit – crowd-sourced tips and tricks

• http://knowhownonprofit.org

Media Trust: All Our Stories – tell your story better

• http://resources.mediatrust.org/allourstories/

Our top resources for nonprofit technology

Social media for health & social care

• Connecting Care – tech resources for health and social care

• www.connectingcare.org.uk

• WeNurses – social media for health-care professionals

• http://wecommunities.org/resources/twitterversity

• Stay safe online guidance for learning disabled

• www.learningdisabilities.org.uk

• Idealware - Social Media Decision Guide

• www.idealware.org/reports/nonprofit-social-media-decision-guide

Care Act will make it important for social care providers to tell their story

http://www.janetejohnson.com/social-media-trends-2014/

Where is the world of Social Media going next ...

… how can we part of it?

The future?

Next steps?

Start small – what could you try in your organisation today?

Keep it relevant

and human and it does take time

We've seen social media as an enabler, collaborating & building communities

Thank You

Miles Maier – Project Manager

[email protected] 020 7426 4496

Paul Webster – Community Builder & Technology Consultant

[email protected] 020 7426 4498