1. Brainstorming Social Media Conversations
PART 1: Your Social Media Visualization - Describe what you saw in your
visualization:
 What goal are you addressing through the use of social media?
 What is different about the way your organization is communicating/using
social media?
 What are you hearing from staff, clients, customers, patients, funders,
community members, colleagues, etc related to your social media efforts?
 How do you know you are being successful in your efforts?
 Who is working on your social media plan?
 What does your leadership team in the organization now say about the use of
social media?
 What impacts do you see within the organization as a result of your social
media efforts?
 What else did you notice?

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(Working with a partner)
PART 2: Building on Your Social Media Vision - Now - Look around your
organization and ask your colleague the following questions:
Using the communications goal you used in your visualization, think
about how to describe it as a “goal” you can begin working on now.
In order to meet this goal, who will you try to reach? What audiences
(consumers, patients, politicians, co-workers)? Where are they?
Where do they gather – online and off-line?
What do you need these audiences to do?
How can you measure whether or not you were successful in getting
them to do it?
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What are your internal & external realities? Capacity? Competition?
What communications tools – social media or otherwise – are you
already using?
What are the kinds of messages that resonate with these audiences?
What are THEIR realities? What do you hear from staff, clients,
customers, your boss, your funders, etc?
Who are the best people to deliver those messages? Leadership?
Staff? Community members?
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What kinds of multi-directional communication are you interested in
developing through social media?
Now look back at your goal: How can you make it Specific,
Measurable, Attainable, Realistic & Timebound?
Now, take each of these answers and
work on your goal to incorporate them.
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PART 3: Making a Vision Reality: Use these questions to guide your social
media planning.
Who needs to be involved in figuring out how to move forward with
this plan?
Who will be involved in making decisions about the plan?
If you were to start somewhere, what would you suggest?
5 things you would start with? How might you experiment?
Who could you get to do the work with you?
Internal resources, external consultants?
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Who needs to be convinced to let you (and others) spend time
working on this? How could you go about convincing them?
How will you know are on the right track? How will you know when to
make course corrections? What can you measure?
What would work for you, given your work style? What motivates you
to succeed? What motivates your organization to change?
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What social media tool do you feel MOST comfortable with? Is this
the best tool to move forward?
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