Social Media for Non-Profits Achintya Gupta

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The power of social

media

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Story #1 – change.org

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Change.org

How change.org is

helping NGOs and

promoting citizen

activation

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Change.org

Start a petition [anybody

can do that]

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Change.org

Browse petition, sign and

promote the ones you

support

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Change.org

Ask your Facebook

friends to join the

campaign

Promote the campaign

through Twitter, emails

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Change.org

See who are your

supporters

As a supporter, discuss

the issue with the

community

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Change.org

The impact: victories +

citizen empowerment

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Story #2 – Kiva.org

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Kiva.org

A micro-financing non

profit organization

Stories of small

entrepreneurs get funded

by the crowd

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Kiva.org

Browse stories that you

think can create most

impact

The stories are curated

by NGOs working in

developing nations

Lend money

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Kiva.org

Entrepreneurs are funded

by the crowd

The status bar shows

how much of the needed

fund is left

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Kiva.org

Impact

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Story #3 – Make a wish

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Make a wish campaign

Understanding what is social media

Understanding how non-profits / NGOs are using social

media and social tools [global examples of successful

stories]

Consider this as step #1

What this workshop is about?

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3. Generate customer data

The new tools of bringing social impact – 3 stories

What is social media? Why is it such a buzz

Social Media for non-profits

What next?

Agenda

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3. Generate customer data

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Part II: What is social media

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Time to distribute the papers!

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Learning: What is

Social Media

Collaborative media

Power of media shifted

from editors to people

Tools will change, social

behavior will not

Traditional Media Internet Social Media

Print Telephone Radio

Television

Web 2.0

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Popular social

media platforms

Facebook

Millions of people share

their thoughts, activities

and opinions with their

friends

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Popular social

media platforms

Twitter

Millions of people

collaborate real time

information

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Popular social

media platforms

Wikipedia

People collaborate on

knowledge

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Popular social

media platforms

Blogs

People collaborate on

opinions

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But that is not all!

Fb, Twitter, YouTube,

LinkedIn, Wikipedia form

a small but well known

part of social media

There are hundreds of

online communities,

focused networks, apps,

forums, UGCs that form

the major chunk

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Learning: What is

Social Media

Collaborative media

Power of media shifted from editors to

people

Tools will change,

social behavior will

not

Traditional Media Internet Social Media

Print Telephone Radio

Television

Web 2.0

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Part III: Why is social media

creating so much buzz

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Let’s play the crowd-sourcing

game

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How social media has impacted

every aspect of our life

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News

The power of media has

gone into the hands of

news creators, curators

and citizen journalists

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Politics

Barrack Obama used

social media to create a

citizen focused campaign

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Marketing

Queensland Tourism

created the fascinating

‘best job in the world’

campaign with social

media

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CSR

Pepsi Refresh campaign

crowd-sourced ideas to

refresh the world

The best ideas were

given grants to

implementation

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Customer Support

Social Tools are being

used to provide quality

support from brand and

users

Comcast uses Twitters

for speedy address to

customer issues

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Innovation

Dell Ideastorm – ideas for

dell products from

customers

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Product Design

Threadless gets T-shirt

design from the crowd

Community votes for best

designs which are then

sent to print

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Part IV: Social Media for non-

profits

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Let’s play the ‘form your club’

game

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Social

Object

Platform

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Campaign

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Platform

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Platform

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Platform

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Campaign

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Campaign

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Campaign

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How people

generally think

How people

should think

Social Object: Lifestyle,

Passion, Cause

Platforms: Social

Platforms like Facebook,

YouTube, Blogs, Online

Communities

Campaigns: Ads –

banner, text, TV, Radio;

events, promotions

Adapted from Gauravonomics

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Social Object

For your social media

efforts to be successful,

you need a core talk-

worthy idea that people

talk about

This core talk-worthy idea

can be a lifestyle,

passion, cause, need,

ambition etc

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Social Object

Change.org: citizen

activation

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Social Platforms

Once you decide upon

the social object, you

decide which platforms

fits best to your strategy

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Campaigns

Aimed at recruiting

people to your platform

Can be ads, events,

promotions etc

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Social

Object

Platform

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Campaign

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Platform

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Platform

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Platform

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Campaign

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Campaign

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Campaign

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How people

generally think

How people

should think

Social Object: Lifestyle,

Passion, Cause

Platforms: Social

Platforms like Facebook,

YouTube, Blogs, Online

Communities

Campaigns: Ads –

banner, text, TV, Radio;

events, promotions

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Examples

Aircel ‘Save Our Tigers’

Social Object: Save the

tiger

Platform: Facebook

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Examples

Chase Community Giving

Challenge

Social Object: Choose

the best charity

Platform: Facebook

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Examples

Name: Vote Report

Social Object: Reporting

voting malpratcies

Platform: Ushahidi

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Examples

Urgent Evoke

Social Object: People

give ideas on improving

living conditions in

developing countries

Platform: Ning

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Examples

Pink Chaddi

Social Object: Women

Empowerment

Platform: Blogger

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Examples

Bell Bajao

Social Object: Stop

Domestic Violence

Platform: YouTube

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Examples

I Change My City

Social Object: Make

Bangalore a better city

Platform: Customized

community platform

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Pratham Books

Engagement built

around a single

social object –

Promoting reading in

India

Blogs Scribd Flickr

Sound Cloud YouTube

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Part V: Other benchmark

examples

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Examples

NGO post

Citizen journalism

platform

Readers report and vote

for news

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Examples

Causes

Members can start their

own causes

Get support in form of

fund raising, petitions and

pledges

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Examples

WWF – Panda Pages

WWF supporters can

create pages to save

wildlife, places and

promote donations

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Examples

Livestrong.com

Health community

supported by Lance

Armstrong Foundation

Content, experts, tools

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Examples

Vittana

Micro –financing for

student loans

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What next!

Read good blogs:

Mashable

Techcrunch

Fast Company

Web Strategist – Jeremiah Owyang

The Atlantic

Read books:

Groundswell: Charlene Li

Social Media Marketing: An hour a day – Dave Evans

Research Reports:

2020 Social Slideshare Channel

Kuliza Slideshare Channel

Social Technology Quarterly

-Achintya Gupta

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Thank You

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