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Catching the Wave

by Beth Kanter on Dec 03, 2009

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Brent MacKinnon , Owner/Consultant at Social Media Tools for Work & Learning Thanks Beth, another great deck of slides. My library is growing, time to create some of my own for audiences in my area. 2 years ago Reply
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Connie Bensen , Sr Manager Community Strategy & Execution at Dell Great deck Beth! Thanks for sharing. 2 years ago Reply
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Let’s do a live experiment with Twitter. I’m going to send out a “tweet” which is a 140 character message to the people who read my tweets. The messages or Tweets that you’re seeing there are from the people that I am following. With Twitter, you don’t have read every single one of them, we can ignore them for now.I’m going to use something called a #hashtag – which is a keyword that will easily allow me to set up a special channel for a conversation.#packfound Presenting to the Packard Board. Anything u want to share abt why social media is valuable 2 nonprofits? Let’s go back to the presentation and check back towards the end to see what we learned.
Next, I’m going to share a brief case study about the American Red Cross that illustrates how social media is having a huge impact on nonprofits and more importantly why it is important for nonprofits to pay attention.The Red Cross – through its social media strategy – has discovered that social media can help with:* Monitor and track their brand and reputation* Identify and reach out to new supporters* Raise moneyThis a core set of impacts for nonprofits and it is increasingly happening online and with social media.
Last May, when Target announcement that it would be giving away its $3 million to ten organizations based on the percentage of votes they could rally from people on Facebook, the Red Cross was ready. They were able to mobilze enough votes to get 1/3 of the budget.When they first started their social media efforts, the communications staff needed to access Facebook but it was blocked . So, because of the earlier listening efforts had effected a change of attitude about social media, they were able to put into place an internal social media policy. They unblockdFacebook. This was important because staff members who were on Facebook all helped with the mobilization of Red Cross fans to help with the voting process.
They also know that in order to have more impact, they need to scale. They wanted to go beyond having social media be a silo in the communications department, and through the Target experience they realized the value of employee use of social networks/social media. They worked on a social media policy, guidelines and an operational manual so that anyone working in affiliates as well as national could be ambassador on social networks. The guidelines also extend to volunteers. The overall policy is encouraging, not controlling. The operational handbook gives them specific steps, examples, and tips for being effective.
For example, they are able to provide advice and support to their affiliates who want to use Twitter effectively. Show example of all Twitter Accountshttp://redcrosschat.org/twitter/Now they have this network set up in the event of a disaster to quickly spread news/information.Their constituents/donors/stakeholders expect them to have a presencehttp://redcrosschat.org/twitter/#comment-37060 (screen capture of this comment)Summarize: The Red Cross found value from social media – by monitoring brand, reaching out to new supporters, and mobilizing them – and they did it by following these incremental steps: listen, engagement, build relationships, mobilize and scaleIt isn’t just Red Cross that has found value in Twitter. Here’s a couple of brief examples.
But what is different about Twitter and social media tools is the networked effect –
I wanted to share some highlights of how I’ve spent my time here.I’ve been spending my time in these areas:Working with program officers/staff – to help them understand how to make the progression that the Red Cross has made and the possibilities are for using social media effectively. Working directly with grantees – Convenings, trainings, as well as one-on-one coachings by phone or in person. Being a resource, providing introductions to other experts, consulting – all on social media effectiveness My own work – which has included co-writing a book with Allison Fine – tentatively called the Networked Nonprofit.I’ve also been writing about what I’ve learned from working grantees and others on my blog and sharing it through Twitter – reaching many nonprofits.I wanted to quickly share some highlights from the trainings/convenings with grantees
Let’s check our Twitter Experiment …
Let’s check our Twitter Experiment …

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