This document provides an introduction to developing a social media strategy for Destination Imagination, focusing on goals of building community and engagement. It outlines key aspects of planning such as identifying target audiences, integrating social media into overall communications, and selecting platforms. Advice is given around collaboration, creating a content calendar, messaging, and community management best practices.
4. Traditional Business vs. DI
• What are businesses
trying to sell?
– Products, services, idea
that you’re not good
enough, idea that
product will change your
life
• What do they want?
– Your Money, people to
buy their product/
service, repeat
customers, your trust to
refer others to purchase
item
• What are we trying to
‘sell’?
– Emotional connection,
awareness of the
program, team-paks
• What do we want?
– New teams, team
managers, volunteers,
donors, partner
organizations.
7. You are our team of community managers
and you are brand advocates who
humanize our brand and build relationships
while telling your affiliate’s Destination
Imagination story in an authentic way.
8. So let’s throw out
some Facebook posts
and a tweet right?
13. Goals and objectives:
• Why are you using social media for your organization?
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Build Community
Reach New People
Drive Traffic
Listening
Engaging in Real Time Discussion
• What do you hope to gain? (Goals)
• What are the ways you’re going to do this? (Objectives)
14. Audience
Identify groups of people who currently
follow you on social media and groups you
want to follow your organization.
15. PA R E N T S | E D U C AT O R S | S T U D E N T S
16. Audience
• What are your objectives for each segment?
• What are the ways you will get them to
follow you?
Reach out in their own space and promote social
presences in collateral
Presentations, business cards, sponsored stories
Ask and content.
17. Integration
• How are you going to integrate social into
your everyday life?
• What do you already create that can now
become social content?
• What ways do you integrate social media
with other forms of communication?
23. Twitter 1-2-3
• Ready to bump up your Twitter strategy?
• 1 Unique Tweet
• 2 Call Outs
• 3 Retweets
24. TWITTER ACTIVITY
• Take the following information
and condense it to 140
characters or less.
25. TWEET 1
Destination Imagination team, Duct Tape
Phenomena, from Philadelphia placed first
at their state competition and will be
heading to Global Finals 2014 in one
month. They are holding a fundraiser at
Pat’s in South Philly in order to raise the
$5,000 needed for the team to travel to
Knoxville, TN.
*For the purpose of this exercise, the hashtag for
Global Finals 2014 is #GlobalFinals14
26. TWEET 2
Get your creative juices flowing! Use the image
below to create an engaging DI inspired tweet!
47. Get in touch with us!
• Tina
• Communication
Coordinator for DI
• cshaffer@dihq.org
• Twitter: @idodi
• Facebook.com/
destinationimagination
• Max
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