This document provides an overview of a workshop on leveraging social media. It includes discussion of:
- Developing effective social media strategies that support communication objectives.
- Designing focused experiments to implement strategies at low risk.
- Using social media for individual and social learning.
The workshop covers topics like generating buzz, engaging audiences, listening strategies, and movement building across multiple social media channels. Attendees participate in exercises to develop sample social media strategies for different arts organizations.
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1. Leveraging Social Media:Understanding Strategy and Putting it into Practice Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog This project is being generously supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Wallace Foundation via The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation.
9. Overview Goals: -Create effective social media strategy that supports and enhances communications objectives -Design and implement low risk, focused experiment -Method for individual learning and improving -Social Learning with social media #artslab
10. Social Learning With Social Media If two minds are better than one, what about a hundred?
16. Share Pairs Something you heard that was completely new to you Something you thought about Something that resonated Photo by Franie
17. Generate Buzz Social Content Engage Listen Social Media Strategy Blocks Movement Building with Multi-Channels Support Overall Communications and Internet StrategySupports Offline Action, Change of Behavior, or Impact Outcome
18. Social Content acticaches Social Media: Tactics and Tools Movement Building and Multi-Channel GenerateBuzz Listen Engage 10hr 15hr 20hr Crawl ………..……Walk …….…….. Run ……..…………….Flyl Less Time
19. Share Pairs Are you in the crawl, walk, run, or fly stage with your social media? What does that look like? What’s needed to get you to the next stage? Photo by Franie
34. “It is important to connect with people based on their interests (I will sometimes search twitter for "kids outside" and then compliment them on giving their kids a green hour!) ” Danielle Brigida
40. “Pittsburgh arts organizations have begun inviting local bloggers to events who then blog the Invitation and spread it via Twitter or Facebook” – Liz Perry
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44. Share Pairs Something you heard that was completely new to you Something you thought about Something that resonated Photo by Franie
71. Perceptions Loss of control over their branding and marketing messages Dealing with negative comments Addressing personality versus organizational voice (trusting employees) Fear of failure Perception of wasted of time and resources Suffering from information overload already, this will cause more
93. Well, maybe not dead Pick the right metrics to understand what is and what isn’t working
94. Creating A Safe Place To Fail Identify worst case scenarios Develop contingency plans Prepare for the failures
95. Pick a social media project that won’t take much time Write down successes Write down challenges Ask or listen to the people you connect with about what worked and what didn't Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. Rinse, repeat.
96. Share Pairs Break What was the most valuable idea or concept that you may apply to your social media strategy? Photo by Franie
97. Spectra Gram: How comfortable are you with social media tools? NOT AT ALL VERY Somewhere in between?
109. Each table will have one scenario! Scenario A: Theatre Company – American Musical Fans Around The World Unite! Tables 1, 2 Scenario B: Children’s Theatre and Music Concerts – Reaching Out To Moms Tables: 3,4 Scenario C: Jewish Community Center Arts Program wants a younger audienceTables: 5,6 Scenario D: Contemporary Dance wants to generate buzz before, during, and after event Tables: 7, 8
141. Getting Started: The 7 Steps Sign Up Set Up Your Profile Listen First Find & Follow People Add Desktop & Mobile Clients Engage & Converse Measure, Reflect & Improve
152. 7 Ways to Turbocharge Twitter Be Informative Use #hashtags# and keywords Talk to people Share & Shoutout AKA Re-tweet Thank people Use Twitter tools
153. The Science of Re-tweeting @DanZarrella Ask for Retweet Use Nouns Colons Rule!
165. Getting Started: The 7 Steps Sign Up Set Up Your Profile Listen First Find & Follow People Add Desktop & Mobile Clients Engage & Converse Measure, Reflect & Improve
168. The Red Cross Case Study: Listening and Engaging Comes First First foray into social media was a listening project in 2006 People were talking and they needed to listen At first, felt like going to war, but changed internal perception of social media
169. Listen: Monitor, Compile, Distribute, Reflect I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] The local chapter director. called me to talk about it honestly. They care about me and they’re willing to go the extra mile. I am now significantly more likely to take another class than I was before.” - Blogger
172. ::the six steps Get your organization ready Use your RSS Reader like a Rock Star Brainstorm Keywords Set up your listening dashboard Make listening and engaging a practice an ongoing process Build in time for reflection
192. Establish Good Habits Start with a small, select number of feeds Review feeds as part of your routine Open interesting links in new tabs Read and follow interesting links in comments Subscribe to new feeds Revise keywords as you go Identify mission critical keywords Share a summary weekly w/others
193. Lurk for the first 30 days 5. Make Listening and Engaging a Habit
195. If you find people talking about you …. Not Problem Keep track of themesKeep track of positivesEngageLook for stories to repurpose
196. If you find people talking about you …. Problem Big Problem Little Problem Be prepared to act swiftly Track themesBe prepared to engage
197. Add value to the conversation Don’t be afraid to disagree Keep to the point of the topic Point to relevant sources if you have more information Watch the conversation develop Humor works Avoid big brother Respond like a queen
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199. 6. Regular Time for Reflection Are the topics of conversation changing? Is the tone, sentiment, or volume changing? Where are the most interesting conversations taking place? What does this mean for your strategy or programs? How can you use the information to improve what your are doing? Is there great content (stories) that you can repurpose elsewhere?
200. ::the six steps Get your organization ready Use your RSS Reader like a Rock Star Brainstorm Keywords Set up your listening dashboard Make listening and engaging a practice an ongoing process Build in time for reflection
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/3058182308/Quickly becoming known as “The Lab”, this space was envisioned by Garland Wright (the Guthrie’s artistic director) as a home for experimental work, a place to try out new ideas.
Understand the basics of designing an effective social media strategy that supports and enhances their communication objectives. Have designed and implemented a low risk experiment that provides an opportunity for learning best practices for using Listening/Twitter/Facebook that supports their strategic objectives. Have a methodology for learning and improving a social media strategy through thoughtful experiments and analyzing its effectiveness. Document and share learning with social media.
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http://royaloperahouse.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/the-twitter-opera-taster/We’re working with theTwitterverse to create the storyline for a brand new opera, which will be performed throughout the weekend of Deloitte Ignite (4, 5, 6 September 2009). We’re investigating how short, 140-character contributions can build upon each other to create a non-linear narrative – like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Consequences. Our mysterious opera director will be regularly blogging here with updates on the story, and as well as offering his thoughts on how the story can combine with some music and acting and marvellous singing to become a finished piece.Our Twitter Opera experiment starts on 3 August 2009. If you would like to contribute, then you can tweet your line of the story to @youropera or visit www.twitter.com/youropera. The story starts like this:
This is a listening/engaging system that integrates both traditional media (press mentions) w/social media reputation management. Listening is red – and there are different posts for listening ..
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanomaggi/3564156120/Affinity: don't look for numbersWhen looking for influencers, you must not forget that these people will help you generating a lead: it could be a subscription, a purchase, a dialogue or a thousand more actions but the influencer should push influenced to act.So let's rethink it: are you looking for someone who can reach the highest number of users?Probably not. The one you're looking for is a person that can make an impact on the followers and inspire them, move them to act and push them to spread the message he is carrying. Real influence is not measured (only) with numbers. It's fundamental to understand what kind of affinity an influencer has with the audience.Communicate the signal and wipe out the noise by choosing the right people.
The remedy – education, discussion, policyLooks at the opportunity costs if they don’t participateConsider the worse case scenarios and have a policy that addresses
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Scenario A: Groups: 1-2You are a theatre company that celebrates and preserves the art and spirit of American Musical Theatre that has a home season. You want to use social media to create a network of American Musical Theatre enthusiasts around the world who might purchase tickets when they visit your city, purchase recordings or other items online. Scenario B: Groups: 3-4Your arts organization presents Children’s Theatre and Music Concerts. You are moving to a new location in downtown Berkley. You want to use social media as part of your communications plan to promote the new location. One audience segment you want to reach includes moms between the ages of 30 and 45 with children between the ages 4 and 10.Scenario C: Groups: 5-6You are a Jewish Community Center that has an arts program as part of its offerings. You want to reach a younger audience (age 20-30) and use social media as part of your strategy. Your arts program includes performances, lectures, and a contemporary arts program. You also offer youth arts classes in dance, theatre, and other art forms. You have a robust marketing program through traditional channels, but have not started using any social strategies.Scenario D: Groups 7-8You are a contemporary dance company that produces an edgy dance installation performance event inside a well known San Francisco historic building. The performances are repeated during the month of July. You want to use social media to generate buzz before, during, and after the event and sell tickets.
Why – Information/Insight, Marketing, Data Mining, Social Circles
Twitter.com’s growth flattened last year. More people are using apps BUT also some people have come and gone. Twitter has limited utility and is best used for finding influentials and dialoguing with the types of supporters who can lead others.90/10 rule = 10% of Tweeters tweet 90% of tweetsTwitter will stay important for those who want the news first – that includes journalists, bloggers, activists and politicos!Soon, there will be a “twitter for normal people” so best to understand now how information spreads and power wields influence in this type of environment.