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Friending the Finish Line: Why Social Media for Child Advocacy?November 9, 2011
Children in the Budget:Why Did First Focus Get Involved?
www.firstfocus.net
FRIENDING THE FINISH LINE: SOCIAL MEDIA NONPROFIT BEST PRACTICES
Attention in An Age of Media Overload
Source: Steve RubelSource: Beth Kanter
Children in the Budget:Kids’ Programs Are Voters’ Priority
Lake Research Partners:
• 82-10% support for SCHIP reauthorization
– 93-3% among Democrats– 76-11% among Independents– 73-18% among Republicans
– 92-4% among Obama voters– 71-18% among McCain voters
– 83-10% among born-again Christians
– 80-13% among voters in the South– 81-14% among rural voters
Kids’ Programs are Voters’ Priority
22%28%
33%33%35%
43%48%49%49%51%54%
61%
49%52%46%
51%42%
41%37%
41%40%37%34%
27%
28%19%
21%16%
22%16%14%
9%10%11%12%10%
Transportation Funding
Job-Training Programs
National Defense
Medical & Scientific Research
Unemploymenet Insurance
Student Loans/Pell Grants
Head Start
Medicare
Medicaid
CHIP
Child Nutrition Programs
K-12 Education
No Reduction Minor Reduction Major Reduction
Leaders Say the Right Things But…
Speaker Nancy Peolsi: “…what are the three most important issues facing Congress? Our children, our children, our children” (Washington Post, Dec. 21, 2009)
“Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program was the most significant development of the past 10 years” (Great Falls Tribune, Jan. 3, 2010)
Share of Total Federal Spending
Activation Point: Achieving Policy Change
Four Key Steps Increase Knowledge: Data/Reports• Building Will:
• Overcoming barriers• Speak with a unified voice/working across silos• Creating a positive campaign• Stronger and coordinated communications
• Create Policy Agenda: Legislative, administrative/community change• Take Action: Identifying/creating windows of opportunity
The Road Ahead: Why Social Media?
• Increase Knowledge– Reports: Children’s Budget/KIDS COUNT– Letters/Testimony/Fact Sheets
• Build Will– Create Community/Speaking With Unified Voice– Improving Our Communications/Messaging
• Create Policy Agenda• Take Action
– Identify/Create Windows of Opportunity– Engage Allies/Key Stakeholders
Social Media: Helping Us Attain Our Advocacy Goals
• Increase Knowledge– Draw Traffic/Attention to Your Content– Control Message/You Are Your Own Media Channel– Reach New Audiences (other groups, individuals, bloggers)– Reach “Elites” (e.g, Rep. Doggett, Charles Blow, Jimmy Wayne)
• Build Will– Create Campaigns (e.g., #dontcutkids) & Community– Issue Concise/Action-Oriented Messages– Costs Nothing (…okay, there is the cost of time)
• Take Action– Identify/Create Windows of Opportunity– Engage Allies/Key Stakeholders/Decision-Makers
Social Media: Helping Us Attain Our Advocacy Goals
• Increase Knowledge– Draw Traffic/Attention to
Your Own Content– Control Message/You Are
Your Own Media Channel– Reach New Audiences
(other groups, individuals, bloggers)
– Reach “Elites” (e.g, Rep. Doggett, Charles Blow, Jimmy Wayne)
Creating Buzz: Driving Traffic/Attention to Content
Release of “Children’s Budget 2001”• Largest Single Day of Traffic to First Focus Website…Ever• Large Amount of Traffic From Facebook and Twitter• Costs Us Nothing When People Download Content
Controlling Content: Creating Own Media Channel
• Publicize your own content• Frame issue using your own talking points, hashtags
Social Media: Reaching “Media Elites”
A report released this month by Jane Waldfogel of Columbia University and the London School of Economics paints a fascinating portrait of how smart policies and targeted investments in that country have produced stellar results.
Social Media: Reaching “Other Elites”
Social Media: Helping Us Attain Our Advocacy Goals
• Build Will– Create Campaigns (e.g.,
#dontcutkids) & Community
– Issue Concise/Action-Oriented Messages
– Costs Nothing (…okay, there is the cost of time)
Speak with One VoiceChildren at the Federal Level:
Children
Children’s
HealthEducation
Head
Star
tChild CareJuvenile Justice
Foster CareHome Visiting
Child Safety Seats
Infant MortalityChildhood Obesity
Substance Abuse
BullyingEven Start
Healthy Start
Child Abuse & Neglect
ImmunizationsNo Child Left BehindAdoption
Maternal & Child Health
Childhood Research
AutismChild DevelopmentPre
-K
Miss
ing
& Ex
ploi
ted
Child
ren
Smoking PreventionChild Tax Credit
Service
Child
Nut
ritio
n
Build Will: Creating a Campaign and Speaking With One Voice
Social Media: Building Will with “Twitter Bombs”
Social Media: Helping Us Attain Our Advocacy Goals
• Take Action– Engage Allies/Stakeholders
• Different From Sign-On Letters, Which Are One Big Hit But Much More Passive
• “Rule of Six”– Identify/Create Windows of
Opportunity• Listening/Injecting Self Into
the Conversation• Opening Windows• Creating Accountability
Ladder of Love on Social Media
FRIENDING THE FINISH LINE: SOCIAL MEDIA NONPROFIT BEST PRACTICES
Source: Beth Kanter
Why it is a good idea to get started
Have A Strategy: Content Curation
FRIENDING THE FINISH LINE: SOCIAL MEDIA NONPROFIT BEST PRACTICES
Source: Gartner
Technology Hype Cycles
Controlling Content: Creating Own Media Channel
• Publicize your own content• Frame issue using your own talking points, hashtags
Spreadsheet: Who is Posting What, Where, When Recycle, Repurpose, Reimagine
Report Release
Children in the Budget:
Contact InformationChildren in the Budget:
Bruce LesleyPresident, First [email protected]
202-657-0670
www.firstfocus.net