A lecture given by Meg Orciari, from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, to students in the class "Making Sense of Social Media" at the University of Hartford.
7. SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE
• Facebook
• 1.3 billion monthly active users
• More than 50 million Facebook pages
• Twitter
• 255 million monthly active users
• 500 million tweets per day are sent
• YouTube
• 1 billion+ users
• 6 billion hours of video is watched on YouTube per month
• Blogs
• 6.7 million+ people blog via blogging sites
• 77% of internet users read blogs
• Instagram
• 200 million+ monthly active users
• 200 billion+ photos have been shared on Instagram to date
Credit: Digital Insights
8. NON PROFIT SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE
48% of nonprofits believe social media is very valuable
Credit: Steven Shattuck/Bloomerang
9. NON PROFIT SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE
Sharing news about the organization, the cause, and brand
recognition are the top three goals of nonprofits' social media
efforts
10. NON PROFIT SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE
Facebook has almost universal adoption among nonprofits
11. NON PROFIT SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE
Nonprofits would like to focus more time on Twitter and LinkedIn
12. NON PROFIT SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE
44% of nonprofits have only one person monitoring its social
media
13. BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
NONPROFITS
• Learn what supporters are saying
• Drive traffic
• Improve results
• Drive visitors to online donation pages
• Enable supporters to distribute messages
• Empower the most passionate and influential supporters
• Enable grassroots movements
• Humanize an organization
• Acquire new contacts
• Increase trust and loyalty
Credit: Council of Nonprofits
16. RUDD CENTER SOCIAL MEDIA
YouTube: Nearly 20 videos totaling over 57,000 views
17. RUDD CENTER SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY
• Step 1: Identify objectives
• Step 2: Evaluate objectives
• Step 3: Evaluate audience
• Step 4: Evaluate organization
• Step 5: Incorporate social media plan into overall
communications plan
Credit: Council of Nonprofits
18. RUDD CENTER SOCIAL MEDIA TACTICS
Tweet and post like a person, not a robot