This general slideset is intended for science based educators who work with the public. It is about how to understand the role social media (and social networks) play in public information dissemination, especially relating to natural resources. It is not about watersheds, or specific tools, rather about building strategies and understanding current web uses.
Slides include notes.
Presented to Milwaukee WBON on September. 9, 2011. This Powerpoint show explains the strengths of the boomer generation and attempts to explain why boomer business leaders lag behind later generations in adopting social media networking. It describes how boomers can change their approach in order to begin advancing their business identities using social media.
Social Media Integrated Campaign Case Study SlamBeth Kanter
A panel at the Stanford Innovation Review hosted "Social Media on Purpose Conference"
Storify: https://storify.com/kanter/social-media-on-purpose/preview
Presented to Milwaukee WBON on September. 9, 2011. This Powerpoint show explains the strengths of the boomer generation and attempts to explain why boomer business leaders lag behind later generations in adopting social media networking. It describes how boomers can change their approach in order to begin advancing their business identities using social media.
Social Media Integrated Campaign Case Study SlamBeth Kanter
A panel at the Stanford Innovation Review hosted "Social Media on Purpose Conference"
Storify: https://storify.com/kanter/social-media-on-purpose/preview
The Secret to Increasing Your NPO’s Online Donations using Social MediaSarah M Worthy
This presentation shares how nonprofit organizations can best use social media within your online marketing and fundraising efforts. The objective is to show you how making some small adjustments to your social media and web marketing can make big differences in your fundraising and awareness efforts.
Find additional online resources for getting the most out of your online social media marketing at http://tendenci.com/social-strategy.
Introduction to Social Media for Not-for-ProfitsBen Teoh
An introduction to how your not-for-profit can start using social media better.
Presented by Ben Teoh for the City of Salisbury as part of their Digital Enterprise program on behalf of Connecting Up
What outcomes are you hoping to achieve with social media?
Are your social media practices engaging online communities to their greatest potential?
How do you know if you are achieving your goals?
How can you take your social media initiatives to the next level?
These four key questions were explored during the “Engaging Visitors with Social Media” workshop I presented at the IMLS WebWise Conference (March 6, 2013).
Participants saw and heard about:
Inspirational case studies from inside and outside the museum and library sectors
Pursuing marketing, education, crowdsourcing, and advocacy goals through social media
Organizational models for social media management
Optimizing social content through data analysis
Taking your efforts to the next level with a paid-earned-owned mix of activities
We discussed and brainstormed about:
Defining the value and goals of social media for your organization
Identifying desired outcomes
Setting the right tone and voice for your organization
Overcoming fear and risk-aversion
Hands-on activities helped us explore:
How content goes viral
Connecting social tools to organizational strategy and capabilities
Determining which social media platforms are right for your target audiences and goals
Platforms covered included:
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest
Wikipedia
Vine
Everyone is talking about social media. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are just a few of the social platforms out there. How do you know where to start with setting up social media presence for your not-for-profit?
Key learning: -
Understanding the benefits of using social media
Understanding how the NBN will enable improved online community engagement
Key social media tools, what they’re good for and how to use them
The do’s and don’ts of social media
Examples of effective use of social media for not-for-profits
This workshop will be delivered by Ben Teoh from Connecting Up.
This FREE event is targeted at not for profits but all businesses with an ABN and fewer than 200 employees are welcome to attend.
For enquiries please call or email:
Rhys Moult
rmoult@salisbury.sa.gov.au
(08) 8260 8205
Presentation to the Northwest chapter of the IAP2 in Bend, OR. An overview of social media. With many thanks - and credits - to the original presentation by Seth Goldstein, Socialmedia.com.
Cultivating Zombies or Activating Community : Non-Profit Challenges Competing...Mila Araujo
Presented at Pod Camp East 2012, This is not the original slide deck. Over 25 slides have been added and some altered to include the discussion points (text) which occurred during the presentation.
Text is being included now so that those following online who did not have the benefit of the presentation and discussion can get a better idea of the context (which would be left out with only the original visual slides uploaded). This deck also doubles as "notes" for the presentation for those who were present.
Two versions of the Youtube video are also available. The first is the shorter version (30 seconds shown at the presentation) the second is the full story version, which gives a bit more of the background of what was actually discussed.
Non-Profits must use social media technology to deliver shorter more engaging and appealing bursts of information for greater impact, particularly effective with video (under 2 minutes) and photos.
Additional links have also been added to references which were mentioned during the presentation for participants reference and further research or learning. This was a 40 minute presentation.
Exploring social media as a fundraising tool is an exciting new technology and resource for nonprofit organizations. This presentation is geared towards those brand new to the ideas and concepts in web 2.0 or social media tools. For more information, contact Emily at edaconsulting@gmail.com.
12 Secrets for Jazzing up Your PresentationLaDonna Coy
A Learning Chi workshop on the Jazz of Powerpoint, secrets to captivate you audience for the Executive Women in Texas Government Annual Conference. LaDonna Coy, (cc)
Why social organisations get more social change from social media. How traditional campaigning organisations will have to adapt, if they want to stay relevant in a world of distributed networks, collective expertise and open-source collaboration.
Social Media Update - Tips and Tricks: Texas AgriLife Urban FCS 2013 updateAmy Hays
Some hints, tips, and tricks to increase presence and outreach specific to goals for Texas AgriLife Extension and other outreach and education organizations
The Secret to Increasing Your NPO’s Online Donations using Social MediaSarah M Worthy
This presentation shares how nonprofit organizations can best use social media within your online marketing and fundraising efforts. The objective is to show you how making some small adjustments to your social media and web marketing can make big differences in your fundraising and awareness efforts.
Find additional online resources for getting the most out of your online social media marketing at http://tendenci.com/social-strategy.
Introduction to Social Media for Not-for-ProfitsBen Teoh
An introduction to how your not-for-profit can start using social media better.
Presented by Ben Teoh for the City of Salisbury as part of their Digital Enterprise program on behalf of Connecting Up
What outcomes are you hoping to achieve with social media?
Are your social media practices engaging online communities to their greatest potential?
How do you know if you are achieving your goals?
How can you take your social media initiatives to the next level?
These four key questions were explored during the “Engaging Visitors with Social Media” workshop I presented at the IMLS WebWise Conference (March 6, 2013).
Participants saw and heard about:
Inspirational case studies from inside and outside the museum and library sectors
Pursuing marketing, education, crowdsourcing, and advocacy goals through social media
Organizational models for social media management
Optimizing social content through data analysis
Taking your efforts to the next level with a paid-earned-owned mix of activities
We discussed and brainstormed about:
Defining the value and goals of social media for your organization
Identifying desired outcomes
Setting the right tone and voice for your organization
Overcoming fear and risk-aversion
Hands-on activities helped us explore:
How content goes viral
Connecting social tools to organizational strategy and capabilities
Determining which social media platforms are right for your target audiences and goals
Platforms covered included:
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest
Wikipedia
Vine
Everyone is talking about social media. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are just a few of the social platforms out there. How do you know where to start with setting up social media presence for your not-for-profit?
Key learning: -
Understanding the benefits of using social media
Understanding how the NBN will enable improved online community engagement
Key social media tools, what they’re good for and how to use them
The do’s and don’ts of social media
Examples of effective use of social media for not-for-profits
This workshop will be delivered by Ben Teoh from Connecting Up.
This FREE event is targeted at not for profits but all businesses with an ABN and fewer than 200 employees are welcome to attend.
For enquiries please call or email:
Rhys Moult
rmoult@salisbury.sa.gov.au
(08) 8260 8205
Presentation to the Northwest chapter of the IAP2 in Bend, OR. An overview of social media. With many thanks - and credits - to the original presentation by Seth Goldstein, Socialmedia.com.
Cultivating Zombies or Activating Community : Non-Profit Challenges Competing...Mila Araujo
Presented at Pod Camp East 2012, This is not the original slide deck. Over 25 slides have been added and some altered to include the discussion points (text) which occurred during the presentation.
Text is being included now so that those following online who did not have the benefit of the presentation and discussion can get a better idea of the context (which would be left out with only the original visual slides uploaded). This deck also doubles as "notes" for the presentation for those who were present.
Two versions of the Youtube video are also available. The first is the shorter version (30 seconds shown at the presentation) the second is the full story version, which gives a bit more of the background of what was actually discussed.
Non-Profits must use social media technology to deliver shorter more engaging and appealing bursts of information for greater impact, particularly effective with video (under 2 minutes) and photos.
Additional links have also been added to references which were mentioned during the presentation for participants reference and further research or learning. This was a 40 minute presentation.
Exploring social media as a fundraising tool is an exciting new technology and resource for nonprofit organizations. This presentation is geared towards those brand new to the ideas and concepts in web 2.0 or social media tools. For more information, contact Emily at edaconsulting@gmail.com.
12 Secrets for Jazzing up Your PresentationLaDonna Coy
A Learning Chi workshop on the Jazz of Powerpoint, secrets to captivate you audience for the Executive Women in Texas Government Annual Conference. LaDonna Coy, (cc)
Why social organisations get more social change from social media. How traditional campaigning organisations will have to adapt, if they want to stay relevant in a world of distributed networks, collective expertise and open-source collaboration.
Social Media Update - Tips and Tricks: Texas AgriLife Urban FCS 2013 updateAmy Hays
Some hints, tips, and tricks to increase presence and outreach specific to goals for Texas AgriLife Extension and other outreach and education organizations
dot brand are the new flagships for brands, and offer a better experience to you customers.
Some brands applied, and are progressively going live and activating their new asset
Digital Engagement in Healthcare - Webinar by Soshal Group, CMA and CHEOSoshal Group
This presentation on digital engagement in healthcare was given as a webinar in October, 2012 and included speakers from CHEO, the Canadian Medical Association, and Soshal Group.
How to use social media for activism and social good, including engagement, awareness, and more. Tips and basics on the major social media sites, content strategy, and tools.
Web and Social Media Strategies: The Why and How... To Be Awesome (PDF version) presented at the NAADA 2011 Annual Conference in Lubbock, TX in June 2011. Thanks to Shelby Thayer for a few slides on metrics.
Are you afraid that your organizational culture is stifling your attempts to succeed in social media? Then you need to take a step back and consider how to leverage social media in a way that balances culture, organization and open communication. Of course it is not easy to change organization culture, but you can definitely adapt. Join us for this webinar and find out how you can foster an internal culture of sharing and collaboration.
5 Timesaving Tools for Managing the Overwhelming World of Social MediaOff Madison Ave
This presentation covers five key components for tackling any social media marketing challenge for businesses, organizations and associations of all sizes.
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I delivered a short workshop to a team from West Sussex PCT. This included people with a range of roles, including IT, Digital Engagement, Mental Health and Governance, and followed up a similar session with the Communications Team a month beforehand. It seemed to be well-received - the evaluation questionnaire that will follow will show me how well I read the room!
Sam Loewner - Using Social Media to Achieve Goals, Engage Citizens, and Impro...Plain Talk 2015
"Using Social Media to Achieve Goals, Engage Citizens, and Improve Outreach" was presented at the Center for Health Literacy Conference 2001: Plain Talk in Complex Times by Sam Loewner, Social Media Specialist, MAXIMUS.
Description: Learn what makes social media a uniquely useful tool to communicate with diverse audiences. This hands-on workshop will cover the uses of social media, the privacy and security concerns associated with new media, and how to write to reach your intended online audience.
Social media has become a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Recognizing that it is essential to integrate your efforts surrounding the use of social media to complement your outreach, this workshop will include a discussion around tying these efforts together and best practices in doing so. This workshop is designed for those who are at the early stages of using social media at their organizations.
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Social Media for Watershed Educators
1. {Why} Does
Social Media
Have to Change
Everything?
Amy E. Hays
Emerging Technologies Program Specialist
1
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Institute of Renewable Natural Resources/Water Resources Institute
3. Email MySpace
Internet
Satellite
TV 11 12
Radio 10
Telephone
Human History
Telegraph
9 Information Transfer
Clock
8 4 Writing
Printing Press 6
3
http://www.michaelwesch.com/ Concept via Michael Wesch
17. How Information Will Find
People in the Future
• How many people access that information
(statistics on page views, site visits, ect…)
• Was this site socially shared???
• Was the page recommended, or rated by
a user?
• How timely is the information?
• Did any of my friends visit this site?
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21. Why I’m online
• Want to make
connections to
friends and family
• Want to find new
friends
• Share experiences
and get feedback
• Keep up with news
and information
22. Why WE are online
• Want to be an
influencer
• Seek support and
opinion
• Share experiences
and get feedback
• Keep up with news
and information
23. Biggest challenges
facing Watershed
[coordinators/educators]
• Nobody really understands what a watershed is?
• How do you keep a watershed healthy?
• Difficult to bring parties with a stake in watersheds
together
• Future sustainability of watersheds is critical to almost all
facets of business, human health, and natural resource
sustainability
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24. dā-ta -factual information (as
measurements or statistics) used as a
basis for reasoning, discussion, or
calculation
in·for·ma·tion - t he
communication or reception of knowledge or
intelligence
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25. Biggest challenges
facing Watershed
Entities/Organizations
• Tightly controlled information
• Few information outlets
• Management does not grant “permission” for free sharing
of information by non-management
• Reliance on existing relationships
• Discounting outreach to non-traditional clients
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29. Website Best Practices
• Do you have pictures with your articles?
• When people share your news, information, articles social
networks like Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ pull the text AND
attempt to pull a picture.
• Humans are 82% dominantly visual
• Do you practice good web writing skills?
• Writing for the web is NOT like writing for print.
• Learn characteristics of good web writing
• PDF’s are NOT searchable through search engines, make sure
to have GOOD summary paragraphs that go with PDF listings.
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32. Mobile Now – Mobile First?
• There are now more than 1 billion smartphones in use worldwide: 1.038
billion in total.
• It took us 16 years to pass 1 billion but it's estimated to take only three
years for the next billion smartphone users to come on board.
• 3.2 billion people, or 46% of the world's total population of 7
billion, have at least one active mobile (cellular, not just smarpthone)
device.
• The global "addressable" population is 4.7 billion.
• Of the remaining 2.3 billion, 1.5 billion live in pockets with poor or no
network coverage, though this should fall to 1.1 billion by 2017. The
other 800m include some elderly, disabled and cash-strapped
unemployed, as well as the very young or incarcerated. (source)
Source: Luke Wroblewski - http://www.lukew.com.
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35. Be Specific in Goals
• Do you want more people to sign up for
meetings, events, newsletters?
• Want more people at events?
• Want to drive people to your website?
• Have more fans/followers?
• Enhance your website with feeds?
35
36. Sean Carton ClickZ – A Social Media Strategy Checklist
1. What are we trying to accomplish?
2. Why social media?
3. What kind of social media will help us best achieve our goals?
4. Are we prepared to let go of control of our brand, at least a little?
5. What will we do to encourage participation?
6. Who will maintain our social media presence?
7. Do we have the resources to keep this up, or will this be a short campaign?
8. How does engaging users via social media integrate into our overall
marketing/communications strategy?
9. How do we measure success? What constitutes failure?
10. What will we do less of if we're spending resources on social media?
http://www.clickz.com/3634939 (Dec. 21, 2009)
38. How Do You Make the Top 150?
• A relationship means two way conversation
• Ask questions
• Provide leads to new resources
• Highlight friends/partners information
• Provide context to links, comments
• Don’t just show a link, give dialog as to WHY your clients would
be interested
• Show a little personality
• Engage, engage, engage – all relationships must be cultivated
38
39. Tip #5 – Listen/Follow
other good examples
FIRST.
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46. Avoid “one man” mentality
• Teach employee’s how to use social tools to “spread” the news
• Hold trainings on how your employee’s can be part of the process
• Don’t fall into a “marketing only” mentality
• Set reasonable guidelines on your expectations of social
channels and employee’s interactions
• Set tone and examples
• Encourage volunteers/advocates to help you in your social
media endeavor
• Don’t make it a “secret” project
46
47. Tip #7 – Set measures
of evaluation. If it’s
not working, kill it.
47
48. CHALLENGE FOR
THE FUTURE
THINK
ABOUT THE WAY PEOPLE
CONNECT WITH YOU 48
49. Amy E. Hays
Emerging Technologies Program Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Institute of Renewable Natural Resources/Water Resources Institute
ahays@tamu.edu
ahays@extension.org
Find me on:
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Editor's Notes
This is often how we feel about where we are…
One of the best descriptions I’ve seen about how difficult it is to both conceptually keep up AND invent at the same time came from Michael Wesch who explained discovery (or information transfer) in the concept of a clock. While it took a pretty long time in human history to get to writing, and then the printing press, things are happening today in minutes and seconds (years) instead of decades.
One, we struggle JUST to keep up. But what we struggle with most if your jobs involve any form of outreach and education is not just keeping up, but keeping up AND doing our regular jobs
This is what we end up feeling like most of the time
So even if we NEVER take up social media for outreach and education ourselves (for various reasons). You still have to understand that social media, and really the “Media Scape” has changed how people discover and share information. You have to be part of that discovery and sharing at some level.
Most people haven’t had the chance to understand that the web itself is going through changes very rapidly. It’s not just changing on having better graphics, or faster speed. The content itself is changing, and continues to change.
If you ever want to get a feel for how the web has changed, visit the WayBack Machine. It archives websites over time, from the early 90’s to today. It’s a very interesting snapshop of just how the web has changed. Look up Pepsi, or Coca-Cola. Look up your own websites.
If you doubt that people in the US are online, these numbers should tell the story. This is 2011 data by the way
This is how most of us perhaps have looked at the web, we were there as it was being built, and we haven’t taken time to notice things might have changed. We used to spend A LOT of time making sure that we got a good web address, put out lots and lots of flyers with out web addresses. We figured we would all be known at THE AUTHORITY on a subject so that over time, people would just inherently know to come to our sites.
But that’s not the case anymore. People want information to come to them, to be part of their daily experience. How many times have you known which site you want to go to, but STILL go to a Google search and type it out? Or you are doing other work online and a sidebar has information that attracts you? The web is changing so that the WAY you use the web helps information find you. If you click on 20 pages with food recipes, all that information is going to be collective and soon you’ll begin to notice that some websites (i.e. social, search, ect…) might start suggesting information FOR you.
People have access to so much information, that many times they go first to the web and then to you. Evidence? If you are in outreach and education are any of the above happening for you? Are you getting MORE people on your programs, more money to do publications? Becoming cheaper to advertise?
Are you getting this many calls in a day yet?
So what’s important that you should pay attention to social media EVEN if you haven’t the slightest inclination to use it yourself. That’s okay, because you are not the sole purveyor of your information! Shocking! As a matte of fact, other people are probably sending your information around the web for you. Wow! So why is that a big deal???? In 2011, as far as we can tell (and it’s a big secret), search engines changed how they “rank” a page. Do we care about search engines? Review slide #14….Google 4,717,000,000/day.
This great graphic by Third Door Media is “the Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors” that came out in 2011 (you can use Google to search this….hahahaha). We are conditioned by years of memo’s to know that our websites better have all kinds of fancy architecture to help websites be found. But, what search engines are ALSO concentrating on is “off the page seo” and a big part of that is social media.
It won’t be about how pretty or proper you website is. It’s about how users feel about your site, how many times are things on your site shared (suggested to others, Pinned). Timely, and how many of your personal circle of friends might also visit that site. Peer-to-peer recommendations are going to be big (they already are). Wait a minute, could this be mimicking REAL LIFE? If your friend tells you to eat at Restaurant A, that’s probably going to be more meaningful that stangers telling you that.
Considering that on any given day millions – no BILLIONS- of searches for information are undertaken on the web, what happens to things that are NOT on the web? It’s a bit of an organizational challenge. If you are HBO and ShowTime, ESPN and MTV. You have already figured this out! Raise your hands if you think that HBO relies on TV to attract consumers??????
So in the end, we have in many cases (as educators) pushed the envelope over to a department. Don’t we need big bucks and minds to “Market” in today’s media-scape????? Have you ever heard of “Crocking Girls” or “Drudge Report” or “People of Walmart”? Do you think they have a “marketing” department????? There are thousand of examples on the web where people without any marketing department, without any budget have brought their websites to the VERY top of searches. HOW?????
Like everything else, its about strategy. If you are in the business of information delivery, you’ve got to build a strategy (that includes using the social networks, and current media-scape) if you hope to get your information out there. There’s a great philosophy surround the number 150. The number 150 is also known at the “Dunbar” number. Dunbar theorized that a person can maintain only 150 meaningful connections (relationships) at any time. Over time, of course who is the 150 changes, but that your brain can maintain connections to 150 relationships. So for those of your who are in the business of connecting your information to people, the “goal” is to ask yourself, how can this information make it into the top 150? Do you want people to care about XYZ? Build a relationship with say ecologically sustainable environments? How are you going to build a relationship to break into the 150?
Many people feel like the relationship online is very much like their “personal” profiles online. The reason’s why YOU use social networks are NOT the way in which you will use them for outreach and education. For many of you, this is a relief! One of the barriers that you may be building is that YOU have to be everyone’s personal friend.
Change the focus to an organizational focus. Why and where does your CONCEPT/Company want to be online and why?????
For this group, when you are talking water, you are talking watersheds, and THIS is the reason to be online.
The mindset for educators is that its not about purging yourself of all the data you have meticulously collected over the years. Having stream gauge data is GREAT for a very small (but important set) of people, but there is a really large set of people that need you (the experts) to interpret and currate that into ……INFORMATION.
Many of the obstacles are going to be at the organizational level. Understanding the barriers are important. Being in today’s social networks and among the media-scape isn’t the same as it was when people thought everything funneled like “news”. There are many very different informal strategies that all play a role in outreach and education.
This meeting isn’t about the SPECIFIC tools we use to engage in social networking, or the media-scape. There are many, many great classes on those, and we also teach those throughout the year (http://irnr.tamu.edu). But, even if you never utilize any of those online tools, you’ll benefit from understanding how to make everything you do transferable to social networks. If you don’t think that’s important, please restart this slide show.
Surprise????
If your website is “shareable” socially, other people who find your information valuable can share it for you. This is called “reach”. You don’t have to be the only one doing the work. If you have information that can be shared, and its good, encourage others to share it.
Don’t just say “share our website”. Make sure the ITEMS within your website are socially sharable. Here’s some ways to evaluate your own websites.
What!!! We barely have a desktop version!
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Want to catch up on responsive design? Follow Luke Wroblewski. Mobile is and isn’t about just smartphones. Its about recognizing that users now connect on a variety of devices. Are you even thinking about that? Should you be?
Don’t just jump onto Facebook or Twitter because they are popular. Do they fit your organizational needs?
Best chart ever! Social media explained by donuts.
Don’t be afraid to set some goals and follow through with them. How are you going to undertake them?
150, how are you going to get there?
Remember babies spend lots of time listening before they utter their first word. Just sayin’
For conservation organizations in Texas, two excellent examples