Presentation to Seattle-area non-profits on how Seattle Red Cross and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center use effectively use Twitter for branding, public relations and messaging.
1. Twitter 201 How to use Twitter for fundraising, public relations and branding #NPSTwitter201 Katherine Boury, Red Cross @kdboury, @SeattleRedCross Suna Gurol Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center @sunag, @HutchinsonCtr
Suna – Hutch – immediately puts in the colors, logo, favicon, tagline, iconic photograph of a scientist. Probably could do a better job explaining ourselves/using our voice. Red Cross – didn’t struggle to put up their name, but full name works in their Twitter handle (lucky!) Colors, logo, contact information. Swedish – A little light on the colors, but does a GREAT job of using words to explain themselves. Funny. The Trevor Project – has it all. Color, logo, tagline, contact information. Also, SM channels. And a direct ask, using mobile. Twitter can help with branding
First bullet – Suna --No. Problems with vernacular, not the same message, not the same audience. Second – Katherine Third – Absolutely necessary to follow other orgs, peers, partners, supporters, and members of your community. We follow government, sports teams, etc. Fourth – Sometimes I don’t respond – won’t help, just publicizes something that isn’t true. We really haven’t had many negative tweets. Fifth– Sure! You can use yfrog or twitpic to upload your photos.
Both Race for a Ride – used for soliciting donations as well as for retweeting to show support. Top Chef – Retweeted and tweeted about a local chef who appeared on a reality program. Relationship building – She uses Twitter all the time and used it to communicate with us that she was interested in helping one of our fundraisers that is a wine event. Since she’s so connected to the wine community, it ended up being quite helpful.
First bullet – Katherine Second – Suna. Lots of events that Third – Katherine
Both – Suna Hootsuite, Twitter for mobile Katherine – TweetDeck, UberTwitter
Suna That being said, we really do things pretty manually here. Count the number of the RT’s, followers, compile data on our own spreadsheet. (See handout.) A few other options: TweetAlarm – like Tweetbeep, sends you an email when Tweetzi – Search, possibly better than Twitter Search. MS Analytics – haven’t used these. Cision – public relations software Radion 6 – pretty cool, but also $$. Rowfeeder – don’t know much about this program, but also for cost
Both -- 3 rd party entity -- Bravo – wanted to control the Tweets and FB messages. Didn’t sound like us. Lost followers. -- Consultants – make sure that they really know what they are talking about AND have an idea on how to execute. We’ve been stuck more than once with someone who had a neat idea that wasn’t something that could be done, or wasn’t something that was ethical.