Green law socmed spring 2015

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Omar Dandan

Ojan Bahraini

Keeley Christensen

Justin Baker

Omar Garcia

Joseph Hawkins

Defending Georgia’s Environment Since

1992...

❖ Attorneys, Law Professors, Judges

❖ Non-profit environmental law firm that provides legal aid to

community groups in Georgia for the protection of the

environment and public health

❖ Advocate with environmental and conservation groups for the

regulation and enforcement of state environmental laws.

❖ Legal Team- About 15 people

The IssuesDefend the environment against large Industrial companies and government

agencies.

❖ Water quality programs

enforced the

implementation of critical

pollution controls at

facilities across Georgia

❖ Air program reduced

emissions at coal-fire

plants- Recently prevented

the building of two

additional coal-fired plants!

❖ Environmental justice

program fought to help

low-income community

groups reduce pollution

problems.

❖ Coastal protection and

land use to preserve

mineral resources.

Why The Need for Social Media? FundingGreenLaw heavily relies on community involvement and donations to defend against large

industrial companies and the government. Significantly lose funding without the use of word-

of-mouth and social media marketing.

Objectives:

❖ Increase presence on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

❖ Improve the GreenLaw website.

❖ Raise community awareness about GreenLaw through speaking engagements.

❖ Raise awareness among the environmental community through webinars/conference

❖ Tell the story of GreenLaw through compelling photography and videos.

❖ Raise awareness of GreenLaw’s Environmental Justice Program.

❖ Improving Grassroots outreach and visibility in the legal community.

Services:

What they have:

❖ Facebook

❖ Twitter

❖ Blog/website

❖ Youtube

❖ Newsletter

So what’s missing?

❖ Instagram

❖ Pinterest

❖ Hootsuite

❖ SEO

Compared to Competitors

❖ Main Competitor: Southern

Environmental Law Center

GreenLaw

❖ Engage in

Advertising

❖ Sponsored

events to get

their name out

there even if it

may not directly

correlate (i.e.

park festivals,

outdoor

recreations, etc)

❖ Rising issues

Consistency & Content

❖ Facebook: 1-3 posts a week

❖ Minimal interactions

❖ Twitter: 1-3 posts a week

❖ Overall presence: active

❖ Blog: majority of posts from 2013

❖ Website: no content strategy

❖ Contains spurts of information with no ties

❖ Overall posts should be as interactive as it is currently informational

❖ Use of: promotions & incentives to retain viewers and attract new ones

Lack of Content ❖ Great blog content but lack of consistency.

❖ Use of new platform to promote instead of merging

with organization website

Social Mention:

❖ Average strength Green Law is being discussed

❖ Need more than just Facebook and Twitter

❖ Organization blog can contribute to increase- lacking original

content

❖ More cross-links between channels (accessibility)

Keyword Comparing:

Website Issues

❖ Non-Unique Meta Descriptions

❖ Non-Unique Page Titles

❖ Broken External Links

❖ Long Titles

❖ Small Content Amounts

All of these can be fixed to increase site traffic.

Website Issues continued...

New Website

❖ Old and Current Website

❖ There is still traffic to the old,

unupdated site.

The old website domain should be

routed to redirect traffic to the new

site.

Old Website

Website Issues continued...❖ Too many links and content from the home page content hidden

unnoticable at bottom

❖ Create more content pages for ranking purposes

❖ Distinguish the blog from other links and post content on it

SEO Issues

❖ Duplicate versions of the home page/ duplicate content

❖ Need to improve Google result ranks of GreenLaw social media sites

❖ No deep links from the home page on google or ask especially to facebook

and twitter

❖ Create more content pages for ranking purposes

Need to improve first page search result ranks of GreenLaw especially for social media sites

Google (1.1 billion unique monthly visitors)

1st google+ page

2nd greenlaw.org - Home page

3rd Green Law’s - Facebook page

4th green-law.org - Old home page

5th green-law.org/Atlanta/ - The Metro Atlanta Environmental

Justice Project page

8th twitter.com/greenlaw_ga – Twitter page

Bing (350 million unique monthly visitors)

1st greenlaw.org Home page

2nd green-law.org

❖ facebook page

❖ twitter

Yahoo (300 million unique monthly visitors)

1st greenlaw.org Home page

2ne green-law.org

3rd Map image with address and phone number

- facebook page

- twitter

Ask (245 unique monthly visitors)

2nd greenlaw.org Home page

3rd Green Law’s facebook page

❖ facebook page

❖ twitter

Aol (125 million unique monthly visitors)

1st greenlaw.org Home page

2nd green-law.org

5th Green Law’s facebook page

7th twitter.com/greenlaw_ga

Search Results

No deep links from the home page on google or ask

especially to facebook and twitter

vs

Google+ account Needs Updating

Comparison of Organizations

❖ Regional (GA, NC, SC, TN, VA)

❖ Bigger Budget

❖ Large Staff

❖ 4 Member Communications Department

❖ Donation Options

Social Media Presence

Facebook: Twitter:

Youtube:

Charity Navigator:

SELC Effectiveness Compared to GreenLaw

SELC Effectiveness Compared to GreenLaw

Amount of Original Content

❖ News Feed: 3-5 a week

❖ Press Release: 5-7 a month

❖ Publications: Quarterly (Seasonal) Newsletter, Big Issues Newsletters

Observations on integrated/tactical

campaign/calendar outline

❖ Wheel and Spoke Strategy

❖ GreenLaw Marketing Integration

Wheel and Spoke Strategy

GreenLaw Marketing Integration

Recommendations

❖ Content Creation → Keywords

❖ Upgrade use of current social channels

❖ Hire Interns for Content

❖ Have all links on SM lead back to Website

❖ Use new Social Media Channels (Instagram, Vine)

❖ Hootsuite

❖ Interactive dashboard with login capabilities on website

❖ Videos