Finding Your Voice: A Social Media Content Development Workshop
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Not sure what to say on Twitter? Looking for a relevant status update? Trying to connect your mission with your audience? In this content development workshop, Cynthia Closkey of Big Big Design helps you develop the social media style of your organization’s mission. The workshop centers on an exercise to determine the voice of your organization. Updating your social media is not only about what to say, but how to say it.
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- 1. Finding Your Voice: A Social Media Content Development Workshop HandsOn Tech April 17, 2013 Cynthia Closkey Big Big Design Friday, April 19, 2013
- 2. Most web content sucks Friday, April 19, 2013
- 3. Some content rocks • Example: • Photojojo www.photojojo.com Friday, April 19, 2013
- 4. The fix for bad web content: Content Strategy Friday, April 19, 2013
- 5. Content strategy • “Content strategy is the practice of planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.” • Content: text, graphics, video, audio • Strategy: holistic, well-considered plan for obtaining a specific goal or result • Via “Content Strategy for the Web,” Kristina Halvorson Friday, April 19, 2013
- 6. Message architecture • “A message architecture is an outline or hierarchy of communication goals that reflects a common vocabulary.” • Helps you think about how to communicate with the target audience • Not the same as brand values Friday, April 19, 2013
- 7. Example: MOO • Moo www.moo.com • Message architecture* • Cheeky • Witty and fun • Young without being childish • Customer oriented and responsive • Approachable, friendly, welcoming • Championing and empowering • Helpful • Accessible • * NOT ACTUAL MESSAGE ARCHITECTURE, but extrapolated from their content by Margot Bloomstein Friday, April 19, 2013
- 8. Exercise: Card Sorting Friday, April 19, 2013
- 9. Card sorting to find message style https://twitter.com/mbloomstein/status/261023217412608000/photo/1 Friday, April 19, 2013
- 10. Cardsorting Step one: • Who we are • Who we’d like to be • Who we are not Go with your gut for about 20 minutes. Friday, April 19, 2013
- 11. Cardsorting Step two: • Who we are ➜ who we’d like to be Think aspirational. What needs to change? ~15 minutes Friday, April 19, 2013
- 12. Cardsorting Step three: • Form groups: what goes together? • Prioritize the goals or groups • Tell the story of those aspirations ~15 minutes Friday, April 19, 2013
- 13. Why do this? Gain standards by which to know when we’re communicating well. Friday, April 19, 2013
- 14. Message architecture • Now that we know who we are and how we are to be perceived, what does this mean for how we communicate? • Visual and design implications • Text implications • Content type implications Friday, April 19, 2013
- 15. Message architecture example Friday, April 19, 2013
- 16. Online strategy • Objectives for our online presence • Audiences (prioritized) • Value proposition • “Selling” points Friday, April 19, 2013
- 17. Content audit • How should our message architecture affect our other communications: • Social media • Print media • Brochures, mailers, advertisements • Direct communication Friday, April 19, 2013
- 18. Online content workflow • Who “owns” the content? • Content generators • Online editor • Moderators • Administrator or webmaster Friday, April 19, 2013
- 19. Online content workflow • Workflow tasks • Creation • Review/approval • Measurement and feedback loops • Presence management http://www.bigbigdesign.com/2009/08/19- presence-management-chores-for-business- you-could-do-every-day/ Friday, April 19, 2013
- 20. How to have better content • Do less, not more • Figure out what you have and where it’s coming from • Learn how to listen • Put someone in charge • Start asking “Why?” Friday, April 19, 2013
- 21. Do less, not more • Web content is useless unless it does one or both of these: • Supports a key organizational objective • Supports a user/customer in completing a task Friday, April 19, 2013
- 22. Do less, not more • Less content is: • Easier to manage • More user-friendly • Less expensive to create Friday, April 19, 2013
- 23. Figure out what you have and where it’s coming from • Audit current content • Inventory sources of new content • Create a plan for content creation • Develop a message architecture • Makes it easier to create consistent content • Shows you what content has greatest value Friday, April 19, 2013
- 24. Learn how to listen • Figure out how this can work within your organization • Find out what customers want (not just what you want) Friday, April 19, 2013
- 25. Put someone in charge • Too many cooks… • Set up guidelines and tools • Establish an editor-in-chief Friday, April 19, 2013
- 26. Start asking “Why?” • Just because you can doesn’t mean you should • Question assumptions, trends, directives that don’t support a business goal Friday, April 19, 2013
- 27. Writing for the web • Write in a style that fits your goals and audience • Avoid fluff and jargon • Use the simplest words and sentences you can • Complement words with other media • Take advantage of links and visuals • Recognize it won’t be read in order or completely • Use headings and bullets • Put important stuff first (if appropriate…) • Test your assumptions Friday, April 19, 2013
- 28. Delivering web content • Website as hub • Other online presences • Social media pages • Related/subsidiary websites • Forums and wikis • Notification mechanisms • E-newsletters • Social media • Offline means Friday, April 19, 2013
- 29. Next steps Friday, April 19, 2013
- 30. Cynthia Closkey, Big Big Design ccloskey@bigbigdesign.com 724.602.2332 Content strategy credits: Margot Bloomstein Book: Content Strategy at Work Presentation: Secrets of a Brand-Driven Content Strategy Workshop Friday, April 19, 2013