SOCIAL MEDIA CAPACITY BUILDING Step by Step Solutions for Your Nonprofit Organization Susan Tenby @Suzboop Online Community & Social Media Director TechSoup Global

Social Media Conversation in Community

Susan Tenby Online Community/Social Media Director, TechSoup Global susan@techsoup.org @suzboop Susantenby.com

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Communicating across social media channels for the TechSoup Global online networks

Online Community and Social Media Team

CAPACITY BUILDING Begins with creating a map of social engagement

Cause, campaign or organizational

plan?

Florida Housing

Campaign or organizational plan? Mission & Purpose? What do you want to accomplish? Measurable Goals Call to Action Request Organizational voice and brand Authority Position?

Step One: CHART THE COURSE: Determine which Channels are right for you – and right for your audiences to receive you

WHY Social Media?

_______________ 2- Way Conversation

Keeps you current Keeps you as Authority

Feedback Loop Spread word abt you

COMMUNITY

Measurable Goals Connected to Specific outcomes Call to Action Request What do you want to accomplish?

What is your call to action?

What do you want by having & monitoring your social media presence? • Drive traffic to your website? • Increase your org’s thought

leadership? • Generate partnerships? • Donations? • Buzz? • Volunteers?

Pick one or two goals: Stay Focused!

SOCIAL ESSENTIALS Mission, Goals, Vision for sharing your story

• Minimal Outreach and Community: Facebook & Twitter • Minimal Listening: Google Alert & Twilert • Minimal Tracking: Hootsuite & Insights

Social Media Planning: Methods, Options, Outlets

Storytelling Channels & Elements

Video (short) Documentary Other film/TV

Streaming Media Events Games

Checkins- Geocaching Online Ads Print Media

Visual Advertising Websites

Twitter Facebook

LinkedIn Google+

Groups and Lists Other Web Communities

A sample of media channels and places to consider story and campaign integration

The Right Formula = Your Secret Sauce

Managing your internal voices

Listening to your external voices

Who do you want to participate? How do they participate? At a minimum... When setting up your networks, make sure you include the following: 1) Photo and/or logo 2) Links back to your website 3) Content about you or your organization

DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Social stories shared amongst trusted friends

http://tiny.cc/tsdigs

Organizational voice and branding…

What is your

Authority Position?

Digital Storytelling: Content Production & Distribution Outreach:

Identify new Potential partners Across many media Outlets & Channels

What is your story? Who is telling it? With what voice?

Find your peeps through hashtags and Twellow

Don’t Tweet Like CHER.

• Don’t tweet like Cher • Don’t make up

#uselesshashtags • Don’t spam via DM • Don’t call yourself a

rockstar or guru • Don’t put an emoticon

or exclamation mark after every tweet

• Don’t be self-referential in all your tweets

• Track click-thru using Bit.ly & do what works

ENGINEER SHARING!

CONVERSATION

Hashtags

#NPtech Research and find tags from many communities related to your field Participate in conversations that help you engage new audiences and strengthen your authority positions Use tags to organize Information and grow diverse conversations

Social: What to do & what NOT to do • DO find a third party listening dashboard tool

that you like such as NetVibes or Google Reader for RSS/alerts

• DO subscribe to Alerts about relevant topics • Don’t delete or Ignore negative feedback,

address it • Don’t use your friends and followers for their

networks • DO tag Strategically, redundantly across many

channels • Don’t only broadcast about your org, share

stories & respond • Don’t be a control freak: guide conversations • Don’t just expect someone will run your SM

channels, designate someone! • DO track your progress using social analytics

tools that help you track success

Amplify, but speak the right local language

• Don’t use other people’s pages as a platform for your spam

• Don’t Auto Feed your Status updates to Facebook

• Don’t use Selective Tweets • Do take a little time, show

you care • Do take advantage of

features of the channel such as crosstagging to groups, people and places at once with links

• Do find your niche community & stay focused on that topic

LISTENING

A few good dashboards

Hootsuite Pros: • Good for listening, include tags, common misspellings, lists/groups • Allows us to follow multiple streams across many social media sites,

creating specialized campaign and search tabs for various projects, events and organizations

• Paid version gives downloadable reports for ROI information Cons: • Free version won’t allow for multiple accounts or multiple users

CoTweet Pros: FREE • Schedule & assign Tweets ahead of time PR releases & allows

teams to manage accounts • CoTweet & Hootsuire allow us to see who responded, when & so

we can figure out how to follow up to each request

Cons: Not as easy to use as a listening interface

Use Delicious to serendipitously search for your peeps • Look for others using a tag you choose • Find what else those people bookmarked • Find other relevant tags • Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious (you tweet, it bookmarks automatically) • Share your resources via social media • If you’re listening, you can learn new tags on twitter & search other

networks too

INTEGRATION

Create your own special sauce

• Figure out what your needs are, use a combination of tools • Don’t forget about mobile tweeting (Tweetdeck for multiple accounts,

channels mobile interface) • Many mobile clients have pic uploader installed in the app (Peep) • Figure out a workflow that isn’t confusing to avoid Freudian tweets • When you don’t have anything to say: Curate, ReTweet, reply to

conversations using hashtags and Share widely • Think more about RETWEETS & amplification than followers

Social Media Policy?

Don’t bother writing your own. There are TONS out there! See: http://npsocialmedia101.wikispaces.com/Facebook http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-policies-in-the-work-place

Be Redundant: Amplify Your Events & Message

• Remember your audience is in more than one community

• Think about these channels as communities, speak their language, use the local media

• Broadcast your events via livestreaming & Twitter

• Follow all your events with wrap-ups & broadcast the Slideshare link

• Have regular events and be consistent about how you share them

• Enlist volunteers to live-tweet / blog

SHARING is a deeply passionate activity for engaged audiences to

continue conversations +

SHARING is an act of conversion

Curate, Point to others, Save bookmarks & Share

• Don’t ever be afraid of having nothing to say: you can always Curate!

• Use Delicious to save bookmarks and share them

• Use Scoop.It to help you find topical, relevant, reusable content

• Share it and content from others

• When in doubt, ReTweet and be generous with @replies

CROWDFUNDING?

BENCHMARKS & SUCCESS Aim for realistic goals as you grow your social presence

Know your goals and communicate the steps

Timelines: VISION STRATEGY PROGRAM TIMING DELEGATION INVOCATION COMMUNITY CARE CEREMONIOUS CLOSING ANALYSIS & WRAPUP

STEP TWO: STRATEGY Know your course, deadlines, and work out a plan step by step

EXAMPLE OF CAMPAIGN TIMELINE

• Reminder to promote all this week from TS and personal accounts.

• • Here’s a trackable bit.ly to use:

http://bit.ly/tstext2give • • Marketing timeline

September 19 Promo blog post synopsis due to Patrick by Michael September 21 Promo blog post due in blog tool by Susan Chavez September 22 By the Cup (9/27) text due by Michael September 26 Content spotlight on homepage goes live Week of September 26 Tweets, Facebook, LinkedIn promotion by all team begins, listserv promo text due to URAN by Michael September 29 By the Cup (10/4) text due by Michael October 3 Targeted outreach and DMs to friendly tweeters and content experts

#Text2Give tweetchat

Nonprofits rely on multitasking teams working 10 hours a week or more on posting, listening, analysis and conversation on the social web Most organizations have almost no budget for social media yet some leverage thousands in support thru volunteers

Timing and Investment Needed Blogs: 1-4 hours per post Twitter: 5-30 minutes a day Facebook: 5-30 minutes a day LinkedIn: 15-30 minutes, weekly Listservs: 30 minutes weekly Other Groups: 30 minutes weekly Photo Uploads: 15 minutes weekly Videos: 2-4 hours a week Curation: 1 hour a week Total Average Social Media Time: 90 minutes per day 11 hours per week

3 minutes: Check for Twitter chatter about yr organization and sub-sector. 2 minutes: Scan Google News and Blogs Alerts for important articles and mentions. 3 minutes: Filter and flag relevant sector-related LinkedIn group and Quora questions. 2 minutes: Log in to Facebook to scan your wall and comments. If you have 5 extra minutes, chime into a listserv to keep yr presence there!

MINIMUM Time it will take: 10 minutes a day

Questions?

Contact Me.. Really! http://susantenby.com/ @suzboop @techsoup @npsl www.techsoup.org susan@techsoup.org http://www.slideshare.net/suzboop http://www.delicious.com/suzboop http://npsocialmedia101.wikispaces.com/