This was a general session at the 2011 CASE Institute for Senior Communications and Marketing Professionals. The focus is creating a social media campaign (integrating social and other communication channels) for exceptional results for engagement and earned media. I use the William & Mary Mascot Search as a case study that demonstrates the power of social media campaigns.
This presentation was designed to help community-focused organizations elevate their social media marketing beyond the basics. From how to build a strategy, tips for content marketing, and tools to create/share better content, this presentation covers a wide variety of topics. Initially delivered to the Ohio Association for County Boards, government agencies that serve people with developmental disabilities, the presentation will help organizations look as amazing *online* as they are offline.
Here is a presentation called Running a Social Media Newsroom I prepared for the Northern Kentucky Chamber. Let me know if you have any additional thoughts.
#GivingTuesday this year will be on December 1, 2015. The movement was started by philanthropists in 2012 as a way to help nonprofits raise money by piggybacking on the energy of the holiday shopping season. #GivingTuesday is always on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Charities, donors, businesses, and community groups are encouraged to use the hashtag to promote philanthropic giving among friends, family, and co-workers.
In this presentation delivered by Erica Klinger (The Seattle Foundation), Michelle Johnson (Legal Voice) and Sarah MacDonald (Legal Voice), you will learn how to plan the best #GivingTuesday crowdfunding campaign for your organization.
This presentation is hosted by 501 Commons and SeaTech4Good.
This presentation was designed to help community-focused organizations elevate their social media marketing beyond the basics. From how to build a strategy, tips for content marketing, and tools to create/share better content, this presentation covers a wide variety of topics. Initially delivered to the Ohio Association for County Boards, government agencies that serve people with developmental disabilities, the presentation will help organizations look as amazing *online* as they are offline.
Here is a presentation called Running a Social Media Newsroom I prepared for the Northern Kentucky Chamber. Let me know if you have any additional thoughts.
#GivingTuesday this year will be on December 1, 2015. The movement was started by philanthropists in 2012 as a way to help nonprofits raise money by piggybacking on the energy of the holiday shopping season. #GivingTuesday is always on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Charities, donors, businesses, and community groups are encouraged to use the hashtag to promote philanthropic giving among friends, family, and co-workers.
In this presentation delivered by Erica Klinger (The Seattle Foundation), Michelle Johnson (Legal Voice) and Sarah MacDonald (Legal Voice), you will learn how to plan the best #GivingTuesday crowdfunding campaign for your organization.
This presentation is hosted by 501 Commons and SeaTech4Good.
Where's the Return on Engagement? Measuring Social Media ROEDebra Askanase
This presentation looks at how to measure real social media engagement, and defines metrics that lead to ROE and metrics that actually measure activism based on ROE. We also look at what social media activities lead to the highest ROE and how to use that information to design your programs and social media implementation. Lastly, the presentation covers three ROE supportive case studies.
It is imperative thought that a social media strategy be put in place before a single post or tweet goes out because you must first answer the question “why are we on Twitter/Facebook/YouTube?” If you can’t describe your Facebook page addresses an overall communications objective then you’re not yet prepared.
This presentation, created for the 2011 Minnesota Recreation and Park Association Annual Conference, will hopefully help you build a foundation for engaging online communities and provide you with some useful tools for managing your organization’s social presence.
Your organization has a facebook page, and you've got a few dozen or maybe a few hundred "fans". You see the notices to "boost" your posts, but every time you have tried it, it didn't work, or you haven't even tried. This Workshop will help you understand and use facebook strategically for your non-profit.
We will walk you through how to look at your "insights"
Offer helpful tips on when to post, how to schedule posts,
Show you where to find what kind of posts get the greatest engagement,
And we'll talk about how and when to boost your site or your posts for maximum value for minimum dollars.
This is a beginners workshop, but will assume that you have managed facebook for a non-profit organization, and are familiar with the interfaces.
About the presenter:
Katherine Cleland owns and operates Cleland Marketing, a small business that develops customized marketing for profit and growth strategies for Small Businesses. She has been creating successful campaigns in Facebook for 12 years for her many clients, and now runs facebook pages for more than a dozen small and medium businesses, including several nonprofits. Cleland Marketing focuses on technology, cleantech, and high tech businesses. She is also an advisor to the University of Washington Comotion CGF program, helping PI's define their marketing strategies.
Ms. Cleland has presented seminars on marketing at the Shoreline Lunch and Learn, Oregon State Austin Family Business Conference, Linn Benton Community College, Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, and The WNHS Micro-business program and the BEC Business Boot camp. She is a relatively recent transplant to Seattle.
The first in our Tech Assessment Program for nonprofits, this hands-on workshop focused on moving from strategy-creation to learning social media tactics.
Social Media for Social Good: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Marketing T...Julia Campbell
Are you thinking about entering the world of social media for your nonprofit but not sure where to start? Do you wonder how it can make a difference to your organization? Or have you started out in the world of blogs, Twitter and Facebook but you’re not sure which tools and approaches are right for you? Are you concerned about time management and how much it will all cost?
When it comes to communication strategies, many nonprofits tend to stay in familiar, one-way marketing terrain – static websites, direct mail appeals, and print newsletters. However, the explosive growth of social media marketing tools offers an interactive way for nonprofits to build community and raise funds and awareness like never before.
Whether you already use social media in your nonprofit’s development plan or you’re new to the game, this presentation is for you. We will cover 10 highly successful social media habits of nonprofits, the “rules of the road” in social media for nonprofits and answer the big question – why do it at all?
An overview presentation about using social media and social networking for social causes that I gave for the Dallas Social Venture Partners on Feb. 5, 2010.
Social Media for Nonprofits: MS NGO Connection Days in Bacolod & Cebu 2011Shai Coggins
Slide deck for my MS NGO Connection Days in Bacolod & Cebu, November 2011. This covers some specific research on web and social media uptake in the Philippines.
Where's the Return on Engagement? Measuring Social Media ROEDebra Askanase
This presentation looks at how to measure real social media engagement, and defines metrics that lead to ROE and metrics that actually measure activism based on ROE. We also look at what social media activities lead to the highest ROE and how to use that information to design your programs and social media implementation. Lastly, the presentation covers three ROE supportive case studies.
It is imperative thought that a social media strategy be put in place before a single post or tweet goes out because you must first answer the question “why are we on Twitter/Facebook/YouTube?” If you can’t describe your Facebook page addresses an overall communications objective then you’re not yet prepared.
This presentation, created for the 2011 Minnesota Recreation and Park Association Annual Conference, will hopefully help you build a foundation for engaging online communities and provide you with some useful tools for managing your organization’s social presence.
Your organization has a facebook page, and you've got a few dozen or maybe a few hundred "fans". You see the notices to "boost" your posts, but every time you have tried it, it didn't work, or you haven't even tried. This Workshop will help you understand and use facebook strategically for your non-profit.
We will walk you through how to look at your "insights"
Offer helpful tips on when to post, how to schedule posts,
Show you where to find what kind of posts get the greatest engagement,
And we'll talk about how and when to boost your site or your posts for maximum value for minimum dollars.
This is a beginners workshop, but will assume that you have managed facebook for a non-profit organization, and are familiar with the interfaces.
About the presenter:
Katherine Cleland owns and operates Cleland Marketing, a small business that develops customized marketing for profit and growth strategies for Small Businesses. She has been creating successful campaigns in Facebook for 12 years for her many clients, and now runs facebook pages for more than a dozen small and medium businesses, including several nonprofits. Cleland Marketing focuses on technology, cleantech, and high tech businesses. She is also an advisor to the University of Washington Comotion CGF program, helping PI's define their marketing strategies.
Ms. Cleland has presented seminars on marketing at the Shoreline Lunch and Learn, Oregon State Austin Family Business Conference, Linn Benton Community College, Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, and The WNHS Micro-business program and the BEC Business Boot camp. She is a relatively recent transplant to Seattle.
The first in our Tech Assessment Program for nonprofits, this hands-on workshop focused on moving from strategy-creation to learning social media tactics.
Social Media for Social Good: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Marketing T...Julia Campbell
Are you thinking about entering the world of social media for your nonprofit but not sure where to start? Do you wonder how it can make a difference to your organization? Or have you started out in the world of blogs, Twitter and Facebook but you’re not sure which tools and approaches are right for you? Are you concerned about time management and how much it will all cost?
When it comes to communication strategies, many nonprofits tend to stay in familiar, one-way marketing terrain – static websites, direct mail appeals, and print newsletters. However, the explosive growth of social media marketing tools offers an interactive way for nonprofits to build community and raise funds and awareness like never before.
Whether you already use social media in your nonprofit’s development plan or you’re new to the game, this presentation is for you. We will cover 10 highly successful social media habits of nonprofits, the “rules of the road” in social media for nonprofits and answer the big question – why do it at all?
An overview presentation about using social media and social networking for social causes that I gave for the Dallas Social Venture Partners on Feb. 5, 2010.
Social Media for Nonprofits: MS NGO Connection Days in Bacolod & Cebu 2011Shai Coggins
Slide deck for my MS NGO Connection Days in Bacolod & Cebu, November 2011. This covers some specific research on web and social media uptake in the Philippines.
How to leverage social media throughout your event life cycleAnne Sigman
Learn the value of using social media during all of the phases of your event. Take away specific how-to’s that will include social media strategies and tools. Understand the resources you will need and how to add value to your event community.
Social Media and Audiences at the Cleveland Museum of ArtReena Goodwin
What is the role of social media at the Cleveland Museum of Art, how do our audiences connect with the museum via social media, and what do we know about them?
Leveraging Social Media to Build Better FuturesDavid Hood
Presentation for social entrepreneurs and other future builders from Global Shifts Social Enterprise Conference, December 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.
Fundraising using social media: A briefingMark Walker
Presentation from a briefing session I ran in Brighton on 7 December 2011 covering fundraising and social media.
<My main aim is to inspire people to get on and do it - to pick up the reins and start trying to make it work.
I'm co-running a workshop for charities about using the press and social media to promote your not for profit organisation. It's in Brighton in November, organised by Working Together Project.
It includes a checklist for social media as part of the marketing mix plus five steps to running your social media campaigns.
I've credited the images wherever possible - apologies if I've missed some.
This session provided an opportunity for our Chicago 2014 SM4NP attendees to turn to each other to share what they were working on and to share problems or ask questions. Each group worked on one question and put their solutions up to share.
Wendy Maynard, marketing maven and principal of Kinesis, Inc. presents Social Media Bootcamp, a how-to guide for business professionals. This slide presentation has a special emphasis on Twitter and Facebook.
Helen Todd, CEO of Sociality Squared, and Chris Thorton, Chief Marketing Officer of Definition 6, spoke about the importance of visual marketing at Social Media Week 2013.
Play the ponies: People, puppies & mascots for the Social Media win at #WesternUMelissa Cheater
How do we get from #offtowesternu and the first day of school, to #purpleandproud families three generations deep? Three parts story-telling, season liberally with video loops - and ask your audience to say "when". You’ll need a kitchen built for teamwork, and the right tools will make your job a lot easier.
Western’s community-first approach to social media brings together more than 100 staff and faculty through meet-ups, “bootcamp” and ambassador training plus a campus-wide Hootsuite implementation.
These are slides from a master class I taught at the 2013 NC Philanthropy Conference. The introductory slides are very much social media 101. Later in the presentation we deal with integrating social and digital media into fundraising campaigns. http://www.jenningsco.com
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Making the Brand Meaningful to Prospective Undergraduates: A Content First Ap...Susan T. Evans
Successful enrollment marketing requires translation of institutional brand for a prospective student audience, yet demands on admission offices mean there is little time for planning. Learn how vision and partnership with university marketing and communications allows the Fordham University enrollment team to translate institutional brand into a plan that works.
This presentation was a session at the 2014 AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education.
Engaging Audiences with Social Media: What's true? What's best? What's next?Susan T. Evans
Social media is a mature and mainstream communication vehicle. This session focuses on social media as an important element of your marketing and communications strategy. Your audiences experience your brand and hear from you through an ever-growing list of social media platforms. How do you take your social channels to the next level? How should your social content engage audiences and integrate with your institutional website? We'll talk about specific suggestions and review best practices through case studies from educational institutions.
This presentation was a general session at the 2013 CASE Annual Conference for Publications Professionals.
What's the foundational first step for every successful communication initiative? Strategy. You can't just do some stuff. You need goals and a plan. What's your strategy for strategy? How do you get the upfront buy-in you need? How do you manage the (neverending) feedback loop? We'll talk about managing up, down and all around to ensure successful communication projects.
This presentation was a keynote session at the 2013 CASE Annual Conference for Publications Professionals.
OH in Higher Ed Circles: 6 things that drive us mad.Susan T. Evans
If you are a marketing and communications professional, you probably think about “doing more and more with less and less” every week. And, one of your daily concerns might come from working with a large and vocal committee to make decisions about a critical project with a tight deadline. Talking through each of the six things that probably bug you every week, Susan T. Evans shares tips, ideas, and advice for making your way around the barriers to excellent marketing and communications work on your campus.
And the Winners Are...Case Studies of Social Media Success Stories Susan T. Evans
So, it's finally mainstream, right? Within education, what are the social media success stories? Who's doing social in an interesting, unusual and surprising way? We'll run through a set of success stories discovered through an open submission period. Use the best elements of these #crowdsourced cases to kick your own social strategy up a notch. This presentation was part of the 2013 CASE Social Media and Community Conference.
Helicopters or Helpers: Using social media for parent engagement and fundrais...Susan T. Evans
Parents of college students continue to hover as much as they did when their children were high school students. They want to be involved, they need to be involved, they WILL be involved. We also know that parent giving to higher education is on the rise and, interestingly, parents often feel more connected to the institutions their children attend than they do to their own alma maters. Social channels offer a powerful engine for driving communication and engagement with parents, especially when integrated with your website content. We'll talk about what works and how to get more bang—and maybe more bucks—from parents on social. Whether or not you have a formal parent program at your institution, you'll benefit from this discussion about this important stakeholder group. This presentation was part of the program for the 2013 CASE Social Media and Community Conference.
Who's Zoomin' Who? Making it work with external partners.Susan T. Evans
What's the secret for getting the most from an external partner? How do you know when you need one and how do you find the right firm to work with? More than that, how do you run the show effectively once you do? Let's empower the campus designer to get the most out of these external partnerships! We'll talk about directing the process internally, and making sure you get what you need. As someone who's worked on both sides, I'll talk candidly about what to look for and what to avoid during these key partnerships. This session was part of the 2013 UCDA Design Summit.
Designing for Smaller Screens: It's not just about the technology.Susan T. Evans
What's the best thinking about mobile design? What are the technical and non-technical decisions that need to be made and how does design support the mobile experience? Using case studies like the responsive website designed for Webster University, we'll walk through the practical and the introductory about designing for the mobile experience. This presentation was on the program for the UCDA Design Summit in March 2013.
Connect Your Own Dots: Social Media Integration as a Best Practice for Market...Susan T. Evans
Your audiences experience your brand and hear from you through an ever growing list of social media channels; but you can’t expect them to connect the dots. Instead, you need to develop an institutional plan that will allow you to stay on message across multiple digital channels like social media aggregators, websites, editorial calendars, and social media campaigns. A social media strategy isolated from your broader communication/marketing strategy is a risk. This webinar will include specific suggestions and demonstrate best practices through case studies from educational institutions.
Connect Your Own Dots: Social Media Integration as a Best PracticeSusan T. Evans
This session focuses on social media as a tool within your marketing and communications toolbox. Your audiences experience your brand and hear from you through an ever growing list of social media channels; but you can’t expect them to connect the dots. Instead, you need to develop a plan that will allow you to stay on message across multiple digital channels like social media aggregators, websites, editorial calendars, and social media campaigns. Remember, a social media strategy isolated from your broader communications/marketing strategy is a risk. We'll talk about specific suggestions and demonstrate best practices through case studies from educational institutions.
This presentation was offered at the 2012 CASE Annual Confer
Inspired by the Cheshire Cat: Strategy leads to success.Susan T. Evans
The most successful education websites, social media, and print collateral are grounded in the realities of a brand platform and an institutional communication strategy. Just doing some stuff won't help you reach your goals. And, yes, a successful plan for communications and marketing includes goals. Strategy is foundational, don't skip that step.
This presentation was the keynote at the 2012 CASE Annual Conference for Publications Professionals.
Social Media Integration as a Best Practice for Marketing and CommunicationsSusan T. Evans
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Changing Roles in Communications Departments (What's social media got to do w...Susan T. Evans
This presentation was a general session for the 2012 UCDA Design Summit. Summary - For the best results: everything is connected to everything else. Social media is most effective when it is a part of an integrated brand strategy and tightly linked to other communication initiatives. And these days, Twitter and Facebook are not just the purview of social media strategists. More case study discussion will demonstrate how you incorporate social media channels into key communication projects. And, while you're at it, you might as well use social media for your own renewal and rejuvenation as you meet the challenges of new roles and responsibilities on your campus.
This presentation was a general session at the 2012 UCDA Design Summit. Summary: The communication paradigm continues to shift. Essentially we're all trying to figure out a way to get a bunch of great people with different skills on the same team doing exceptional work telling the story of our college or university. So how do you take separate organizations and merge them into one high-performance engine of creativity? What steps do you take to blend web and publications into a creative services team? We'll talk about an approach where you forget the past, ignore the present, and imagine the future. And, we'll walk through a case study of a prospective student mailing project that demonstrates how a medium-agnostic team can come together to accomplish incredible creative.
This presentation was the keynote at the University of Richmond's 2012 Social Media for Education and Non Profit Communications Workshop. The session explores myths in the practice of social media and ties them to some of my favorite songs. If you sing it, you'll remember it.
What Do I Say? Content Ideas for Social Media - mStoner WebinarSusan T. Evans
This webinar offers a broad range of ideas for content for social channels managed by educational institutions. The webinar offers specific suggestions for social content that supports marketing and communications goals in education. View the webinar recording here: http://www.mstoner.com/blog/content-and-writing/content-ideas-for-social-media-webinar-recording-now-available/
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This presentation offers ideas for using social media to get results for parent fundraising in education institutions. The presentation was a general session at the 27th Annual Parent Fundraising Conference in August 2012.
In 2010, William & Mary established the Office of Creative Services within the university’s central communication division. This "in-house agency" blends the capabilities and talents of the former university publications office and the former university web team. Creative Services offers an array of services in support of university-level communication and is committed to a strategic approach for university messaging.
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Download the podcast: http://2011.highedweb.org/presentations/MMP1.mp3
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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9. What is social media?
Web-based tools used for social
interaction
blogs
Flickr
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Foursquare
...
10. What is social media strategy?
Dear Senior Communications and
Marketing Professionals,
Your social media strategy is a
communication strategy.
Sincerely,
Susan
11. What is a campaign?
A focused effort to achieve goals
using a variety of channels
appropriate to the results sought
13. I. What we did
II. What we got
III. Why it mattered
14. Goals of the Internet
campaign:
•open, transparent, and
inclusive
•Fun! (said the president)
•participation
•engage students, alumni and
fans
•inform/educate stakeholders
•establish trust
•build enthusiasm
What we
did.
15. Campaign Components:
•mascot search website
•Blog
•Mascot Search on Facebook
•@WMMascot on Twitter
•YouTube
•Flickr
•Traditional: campus portal, a bit of print
(Alumni Magazine), e-newsletters,
student newspapers
* former mascot had a blog and Facebook profile
What we did.
16. How we used the channels...
•Website as hub
•Blog for updates
•Twitter for early announcements /
sneak peeks
•Facebook for preview; discussion; make
your own case; graphics of some of the
suggestions
•YouTube for fun / distraction and THE
LAUNCH
•Flickr for drawings of finalists
What we did.
17. Our approach:
•we kept up our end of the conversation
•design and graphics created consistent
concept / brand
•used personal and informal tone
•built up community by reinforcing all
channels
•developed trust that social media was
the way to find out and stay informed
•devoted time and energy to integrated
social media content
What we did.
18. WOW!
Web traffic Feb 2007 – April 2010:
239,300 hits and 120,438 unique
visitors
Facebook group: 891 members (1,066
wall posts)
Twitter: 1,360 followed @WMMascot
Blog: 252 comments
YouTube: 4,370 channel views
Flickr: 2,237 views of mascot-related
photos
What we got.
19. Suggestions and Feedback:
•839 suggestions in 90 days
(44 states and DC represented)
•16,913 unique visits to the mascot
website the day five finalists
unveiled
•11,183 completed feedback
surveys in four-week period (Dec 7
– Jan 7)
What we got.
•22,000+ comments
20. Launch: “Get me the Griffin!”
•The mascot launch was an Internet &
campus event. Alumni, parents, students,
& fans not in Williamsburg took part.
•Launch day: 21,025 hits; 7,505 unique
visitors
•Launch day and beyond:
17,000+ views of YouTube video
announcement
21,611 views of YouTube video What we
of the
Griffin got.
22. Alumni love the new mascot.
Social media allowed a conversation
and we offered more engaging info
and more immediate updates.
The viral aspect of social media
reached individuals who weren’t
paying attention to our mascot
search.
Why it
mattered.
23. Alumni over 40 use social
media!
(Now we know.)
20% of alums who suggested a mascot
were
52 or older
5,591 alums provided feedback on
finalists (50% of total)!
*When individuals care about a topic and
are consistently offered the opportunity to
participate, they will.
Why it
mattered.
24. Earned media was high.
Something whacky led to reporter
interest.
•The Daily Show
•Washington Post
•ESPN
•USA Today
•Sports Illustrated
•Chronicle of Higher Education
Reporters following our search used the
social media Why it
content we had in place. mattered.
26. What works?
questions
emotion
photos and videos
weather
famous alums
athletics
insider info / sneak peeks
27. Look familiar?
specific goals
more planning/less spontaneous
make a commitment and be consistent
institutional buy-in and support
multiple channels
multiple sources of content
sense of humor
planned evolution (track reactions/
patterns)
monitor results
28. Seriously.
Like every other part of your communication
strategy, social media requires a plan and
good old-fashioned hard work.