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Overview of social media for non-profits. Prepared for a non-profit conference.
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Social Media for Non-profits
RENEE’S TOP TIPSsocial media how-to in 4 slides
Find & Follow the rock-stars
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Stock the fridge before the party
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It’s the house not the hammer
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Be Fearless
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GETTING SERIOUS WITH SOCIAL MEDIAFrom communication to engagement to $$$
Social Media is a BUSINESS function
• Social Media has implications across all business functions
• Your social media goals should mirror and help reach your organization goals
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Donor Relations/Customer Service
Public Relations/Marketing
Volunteer and Program engagement
Development/Fundraising
Social Media
Time, tools and team
• Time:– Social is 24 hours, you are not, the more you give however, the more you get!– Set feasible daily time for your management
• Multiple day parts for short time (breakfast lunch dinner)
• Tools:– Lots of FREE and easy tools to streamline the process
• My fav’s: Google dashboard, TweetDeck, Hootsuite• Check out this great resource from Carrie Lewis of Humane
society:http://cariegrls.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-free-igoogle-brand-monitoring.html
• Team:– Have 1 person who is in charge of overall strategy, policies & curating– Incorporate ideas from all teams (development and volunteers are essential)– Channels can be managed by volunteers, receptionists, interns etc. once the strategy
and plan are defined
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A donor is a donor
• Follow traditional donor relations best practices– Social can be a hug not just a hand shake– How are your supporters connecting with you off-
line?
• Incorporate development tactics– Identify influencers– Consider “fans” leads– Deploy traditional development campaigns
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Become a friend • DON’T SELL
– Rotate content appealing to your audience– Become a trusted expert and community outpost
• Act SOCIAL think media– Tell stories– Be authentic/develop trust
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FAN
BRAND
STUFF
YES! You can raise funds
• BIGGEST RULE: Would you give $20 to a stranger or a friend??? Become a FRIEND 1st!– Manage your (boards) expectations– Make it MEANINGFUL (not passive)– Start small and test highly specific campaigns– Create unique metrics of success– Take a team approach
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YOUR QUESTIONS, ANSWEREDQuestions from your registration survey
Your Questions:
• How often do you recommend updating the blood center Facebook page? – Test and learn (keep the shop open and active but DON’T SPAM
• How do you keep your audience engaged on your social media page, when the person doing social media has time constraints & can't log-in every day? – Let’s discuss!
• How often do you monitor your Facebook page? – Daily is a must
• How do you handle it when people post pictures on your Facebook page? – Depends on the content
• How (and how much) do you monitor mentions of your blood center on other people's Facebook pages/Youtube/MySpace etc?– These are conversation starters, don’t you want to talk?
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Your Questions:
• Managing live posts that mention the competition– Consider these conversation starters. What would you say
if you over heard these comments at a public event?
• Managing negative comments, especially those that are tied to Google maps– Follow your traditional customer service response plan. If
you don’t have one, create one BEFORE engaging in social!
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Your Questions:
• We have multiple recruiters that want to have/manage their pages for their territories. This would then cause multiple pages for our one organization and a challenge with consistent messaging and branding. How do other blood centers handle this? – By creating and providing official tools and best practices you can help ensure
consistency across pages– You can find the red Cross chapter guide here: http://
socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php
• Who manages the social media program? Which department/team member? – Depends on who is best at engaging and communication about your brand– Regardless input should be given by all teams on content COLLABORATE!
• How do blood centers handle creating events for each of their individual blood drives?– Suggestion: Facebook events and small highly targeted ad buys
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Your Questions:
• How can we use social media to reach our hospital and partner organizations? – Now you’re talkin! Become active in their channels and position
yourself as an industry expert (fan/brand/stuff)– Perhaps plan joint webinars and live-streamed events
• How do we motivate our content creators to embrace social media when their desire is limited and they have significant time constraints?– First know that there is now time rule, but you do get what you give.
Second, understand that the deep relationship building nature of social makes the conversations that happen hear much more lucrative.
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Your Questions:
• Which social media platforms make the most sense for what we do as blood centers?– Fish where the fishes are!– DO NOT get distracted by the 5 zillion channels and tools.
• I'm curious to see how other blood centers promote their social media pages. I'd also like to hear about any successful efforts to increase fans/followers and participation. – Let’s talk numbers!
• In real life, would you rather have 10 really good friend you could rely on or 100 friend that never answer your call?
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More Questions?
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