You've heard that social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? For what? What tangible results are people seeing from it? If you or others at your organization are asking these quest ions, this webinar is for you. Kami Griffiths of TechSoup will interview Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware. They’ve recently created the Social Media Decision Guide, in partnership with the New Organizing Institute, which walks you through a step-by-step process to decide what social media channels make sense for your organization via a workbook, guide, and the results of more than six months of research. We will also hear from Tex Dworkin, Social Media Director at Global Exchange. She will share the story of how social media was introduced to he r nonprofit, and the steps and challenges that followed. This webinar is ideal for nonprofits and libraries who are struggling to understand social media and if it’s worth the time invested in implementing, training and sustaining. Use this webinar to support your case fo r why you should or shouldn’t take the next step with social media.

1. Social Media Decision Making September 21, 2010 Audio is only available by calling this number: Conference Call: 866-740-1260; Access Code: 6339392 Sponsored by

4. Social Media Decision Making Presenters: Laura Quinn, Tex Dworkin Sponsored by

5. We are working toward a time when every nonprofit and social benefit organization on the planet has the technology resources and knowledge they need to operate at their full potential

7. Today’s Speakers Tex Dworkin Global Exchange Laura Quinn Idealware Facilitator: Kami Griffiths, TechSoup Assisting with chat questions: Becky Wiegand, TechSoup, Andrea Berry Idealware

9. A Five Piece Research Study

10. Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide http://idealware.org/reports/nonprofit-social-media-decision-guide

11. A Plethora of Resources Helpful narrative and examples Worksheets to guide you And a directory of consultants All based on real research!

12. High Level Survey Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals survey Online survey of an informal sample of 460 nonprofit staff members already using social media

13. Discussion Groups and Case Studies We collected stories of social media use More than 290 nonprofit staff members volunteered verbal pr written information about what social media channels they are using, for what, and how it’s working

14. Facebook and Twitter Surveys 271 frequent Facebook users took our survey about how they might use Facebook to evaluate nonprofits; 69 frequent Twitter users took a similar survey about Twitter We surveyed frequent social media users about nonprofit topics

15. What Tools Do Organizations Find Successful?

16. Reaching Out From the high level survey

17. Enhancing Relationships From the high level survey

18. Fundraising From the high level survey

19. What More Specific Results? Some results were mentioned a lot in discussion groups and case studies

23. Example of How Global Exchange Put Social Media Tools to Use

24. Facebook

25. Would You Refer to Facebook? “ Would you look for a Facebook Page for an organization with which you were considering volunteering?” How often do you use Facebook?

26. Would You Refer to A Website? “ Would you look for a website for an organization with which you were considering volunteering?” How often do you use Facebook?

27. Does a Page Encourage Confidence? “ Would you be more likely to volunteer if the nonprofit had a Facebook page (as opposed to no Facebook presence at all)? How often do you use Facebook?

28. What About the Number of Fans?

30. Twitter

31. Why Twitter?

32. How Are People Interacting with Nonprofits?

33. Are They Really Listening?

35. How Much Time Does it Take?

36. How Much Time are They Putting In? The most successful orgs averaged about 2 hrs/wk per channel Not a single respondents who spent less than 1 hr/wk felt they were seeing results

37. How Many Are Succeeding? Of those who spent at least two hours a week on social media… Substantial Success 54% Inconclusive Success 5% No Success 19% Don’t Know 7% Case study analysis

38. Photo and Video Sharing

39. Not Much “Social” Use As of Yet There were few examples from our research of “social” uses of photo and video sharing sites. Most people were simply using them to post.

40. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Flickr 249 Group Members Photo Pool Discussion Board “ About” Section Message from admin to tag photos for a specific event

41. Contests http://www.flickr.com/groups/greenest/ (Nature Conservancy) Give people a fun incentive to participate

43. Earthjustice: YouTube Channel Brand your channel Supporters subscribe to the channel Archive your videos

44. “Viral” Videos http://www.storewars.org “ Going viral” is more of an aspiration than a strategy Tell a terrific story via video – which you can then post on a site like YouTube or Blip.tv

45. Surveys, a Strategy Shaping Tool

47. Questions? Submit your questions using the chat box.

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51. Thank you! Please complete the post event survey! Kami Griffiths, kami@techsoup.org, 415-633-9392