Growing a nonprofit social media strategy: MS NGO Day Sydney 2010
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Growing a Nonprofit
Social Media Strategy
2. Connecting Communities
Microsoft NGO Connection Day: Technology for Nonprofits & Charities
Sydney, 4 November 2010
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Presentation by:
Shai Coggins
Manager, Online Content
Connecting Up Australia
http://connectingup.org/
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4. Social Media Strategy
In a Nutshell
• Plan
• Execute
• Measure and
Analyse
Rinse and Repeat
5. Plan
• Goals - Planning with
the end in mind
• Tools - What are you
going to use?
6. Execute
• Strategy - How are
you going to do what
you are planning to
achieve?
• Policies, Staffing,
Resources, Schedule,
etc
7. Measure and Analyse
• Metrics -
Quantitative and
Qualitative
• Results - Tangible
and Intangible
• Tools - What are you
going to use?
8. Social Media Growth Stages
Sit Craw Wal
Run Fl
Where’s your nonprofit at right now?
Partly based on Beth Kanter’s Social Media Strategy Blocks (http://bethkanter.org/ | Twitter: @kanter)
9. Growth Stage:
SIT
•Awareness
•Taking Notice
•Acknowledge the Need
•Tentative Attempts
10. Growth Stage:
CRAWL
•Start 1 - 2 accounts
•Ad Hoc Updates
•No ownership
•1-2 people organisation
awareness
•Broadcasting Mode
11. Growth Stage:
WALK
•Support from top level
•Staffing allocation
(part-time/full-time)
•Updates more often, no
schedule
•Start @replies, etc
•Creation of original
content
12. Growth Stage:
RUN
•Managed by full-time
staff
•Scheduled and planned
updates
•Organisation-wide
awareness
•Engagement with RTs,
hashtags, etc
•Regular original content
•Multimedia use
•Basic analytics
13. Growth Stage:
FLY
•Organisation-wide use
•Facilitation
•Strong community
engagement
•Co-creation of content
with community members
•Community ownership
•Effective use of
additional tools
(analytics, etc)
19. Summary
• What’s your nonprofit’s social media
strategy?
• How do you plan, execute, and
measure?
• Which growth stage is your nonprofit
at right now? How are you going to
the next stage?