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Developing a Social Media Plan of Action

Developing a Social Media Plan of Action

Your organization has a clear understanding of your overarching goals and objectives, but you don’t yet have a tactical plan to make these come to life online. This handout provides case studies, checklists, frameworks and key definitions so you can think tactically about your social media presence, as well as a list of free tools and resources that you can use to identify, cultivate and engage with new and existing audiences.

Sample Audience Persona Cards

Sample Audience Persona Cards

A template for audience persona cards to be used in audience persona mapping exercises.

Digital Tactics to Find and Keep Valuable Supporters of Your Work

Digital Tactics to Find and Keep Valuable Supporters of Your Work

Sample conversion funnels and questions to ask yourself and your team as you develop content to serve your target audiences.

How to Build a Social Media Strategy

How to Build a Social Media Strategy

How do social impact media strategists work with clients and impact initiatives? This episode, recorded live at Opportunity Collaboration, moves from concept to application. Two social entrepreneur participants of Boehm Media fellow office hours and happy hour meet with Fellows and media strategists for specific support on challenges and opportunities they are facing in their media strategies.

5 Questions to Ask About Media

5 Questions to Ask About Media

All media have an author—and an agenda. It’s important to know how to analyze and critique any type of media, from social media posts and online articles to books, TV shows, advertisements, works of art, and beyond. Use this sheet from Common Sense Media to help you think critically about how media are made and consumed.

Marketing Questionnaire

Marketing Questionnaire

Having clear goals doesn’t come easy, especially working within ecosystems of change and complex social issues that involve a variety of stakeholders, beneficiaries, target audiences etc. What far too many organizations skip is the process of aligning their goals to a communications plan. Here are questions to help you develop a communications strategy and increase your impact.

Resources on Developing Key Messages

Resources on Developing Key Messages

This worksheet is a tool to use when preparing core messages for an organization, for an issue, or even in preparation before developing an op-ed or presentation. It is helpful to think through the points that matter, and that will be memorable.

Message Tips

Message Tips

What is a message and how do you create one?

Being Memorable

Being Memorable

In a world of too much communication, how are you going to stand out? How will you get funding? How will you deliver a great soundbite? How will you convince a partner, who has heard dozens of pitches, to join you in your endeavor? Being memorable is important. This document gives the key tips to stand out in the world.

Find Your Tribe

Find Your Tribe

Use this guide to the basics of social media story creation and networking to understand how social media fits into your overall branding strategy—includes audience basics and easy exercises.

Introduction to Google Analytics

Introduction to Google Analytics

Google Analytics presentation in Google Sheets

The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business

The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business

Do you use email in your business? The CAN-SPAM Act, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

Content Marketing Editorial Calendar Templates

Content Marketing Editorial Calendar Templates

Those responsible for content within an organization have to plan out content for the upcoming weeks, months and year. This helps build alignment between teams and also keep writers accountable for their work.

Ethical Storytelling Pledge

Ethical Storytelling Pledge

This pledge is an aim to focus on the HOW not only the WHAT of the stories we may encounter – but maybe should not always tell – in the work we do.

Ethical Storytelling

Ethical Storytelling

Ethical Storytelling is a community of nonprofit practitioners & storytellers learning how to integrate a new standard of storytelling.

How to Tell Compelling Stories While Avoiding Savior Complex and Exploitation

How to Tell Compelling Stories While Avoiding Savior Complex and Exploitation

Great piece that explains how to avoid poverty porn–using images, language, etc. from the people we serve (usually poor black people) to raise money, etc. instead of responsible storytelling.

Don't Touch that Facebook Boost Post Button

Don't Touch that Facebook Boost Post Button

Article on Agora Pulse that explains why boosting Facebook posts is a bad idea

2017 Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Donor Management Systems

2017 Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Donor Management Systems

Our giving programs are most successful when we know how and why our donors give. But what are the best ways to collect and store these data in a way that is accessible, actionable, and cost-effective?

Getting Started with Google Analytics

Getting Started with Google Analytics

Follow these steps (and access resources) to add Google Analytics to your website.

Perfecting Your Pitch

Perfecting Your Pitch

A master lab worksheet on how to improve your pitch.

How to Run a Donor Survey

How to Run a Donor Survey

Before starting a campaign or media project, it’s important to understand who you’re targeting. For those at a loss who are your natural audience, surveying your donors helps you understand who’s interested in your work & why.

Photography 101

Photography 101

Composition & lighting are the fundamentals of photography. By learning a few simple techniques, you can make an okay picture even stronger & tell the story you want to tell. Please share this PDF with anyone in your organization who takes photographs of your work.

Your 30-Second Elevator Pitch Is Way Too Long

Your 30-Second Elevator Pitch Is Way Too Long

No one actually has time for stories anymore. And while you may have heard over and over again that you’ve got just 30 seconds to deliver your elevator pitch, the reality is that you have about one-fifth of that.

Can Journalism Make Audiences Care?

Can Journalism Make Audiences Care?

Sometimes an image or a news account of mass violence evokes public outcry.

Three Simple Steps to Creating an Ideal Customer Profile

Three Simple Steps to Creating an Ideal Customer Profile

Let's talk about how to build an ICP that will help your sales and marketing teams know who they should invest in and who's not worth their time.

What to Post on Each Social Media Platform: The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Social Content

What to Post on Each Social Media Platform: The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Social Content

Not all content needs to be shared everywhere. And not all content is suitable for every social media platforms.

The Impact Podcast with Neetal Parekh

The Impact Podcast with Neetal Parekh

Explore how to build a social impact strategy, how to podcast, meet Boehm Media Fellows at Opportunity Collaboration, listen to dialogue between Funder and Founder, find out how to talk to impact investors at conferences, meet Jonathan Lewis, and explore Social Media Impact strategists

Typito

Typito

Edit your videos with this in-browser video editor for beginners. It has customizable features and will only cost $3 per video to produce.

Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Know when ‘world days’ are as these hashtags are usually popular for about 24-48 hours so planning a campaign, an article or even just a few posts on Twitter or Facebook around the subject have a greater chance at gaining traction with the right audiences. This is relevant and updated annually – revisit it each year as these days repeat themselves annually.

The Ethical Guide To Building An Email List Without Sleazy Tactics

The Ethical Guide To Building An Email List Without Sleazy Tactics

Learn from someone else’s experience in this personal account of organic social media growth, which might resonate with some of your frustrations. It focuses on the building of e-mail newsletters. This has a business focus but the ideas can be adapted.

Google Digital Garage

Google Digital Garage

Learn with Google through this comprehensive online course that will provide learning materials, tests and exams and give you a final ‘certificate’ to demonstrate your social media knowledge. Although that’s for show, the content is useful if you’re just getting started in the realm of digital as it’s suitable for complete beginners. It also assists with Google analytics and Google ad words.

Canva for Non Profits

Canva for Non Profits

Learn how to make visuals on more expansive software on a small budget and limited time. Canva has a free list of templates that you can edit/mold to your branding to create compelling visuals and animated gifs to make your social media content more likely to be engaged with. Very easy and you can share your work in progress with team mates for joint editing. Non-profits get the full version for free!

Impact Distribution Worksheet

Impact Distribution Worksheet

Plan how you will distribute for greater impact.

Dayani Cristal Campaign Example

Dayani Cristal Campaign Example

Review this example of award-winning social issue documentary campaign strategy.

Impact Distribution Plan 1

Impact Distribution Plan 1

A good impact distribution campaign starts with a brainstorming exercise and a strategic plan.These worksheets provide you the foundations for a successful and realistic campaign to have your stories reach your audiences where you will actually find them.

Assessing Creative Media's Social Impact

Assessing Creative Media's Social Impact

Gather insights in this assessment of Creative Media’s Social Impact with research, updates and suggestions.

Sima Rama Cinema Club

Sima Rama Cinema Club

Access this film resource, the Online Cinema Club features 12 outstanding works of Impact Cinema per year.

From Distribution to Audience Engagement

From Distribution to Audience Engagement

Learn media impact campaign best practices.

The Unbearable Lightness of Non-Profit Propaganda

The Unbearable Lightness of Non-Profit Propaganda

Gain insights with this personal account of impact storyteller/ explore the impacts of mainstream humanitarian filmmaking.

Impact Distribution Plan 2

Impact Distribution Plan 2

This is the advanced planning sheet to map out your campaign and strategy strategy. Start with the brainstorming Sheet (Impact Distribution Plan 1) and use this one afterwards.

Media that Matters - Evaluation Metrics

Media that Matters - Evaluation Metrics

This evaluation sheet is a version of the metrics developed by the intl. Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) to find the world’s best social impact storytelling. You can utilize it to test if your media has what it takes to be considered best in class for social impact.

Why Communicate?

Why Communicate?

Begin to plan a communications strategy by tapping into news networks and newsworthy information connected to your organization.

What is News?

What is News?

Begin to plan a communications strategy by tapping into news networks and newsworthy information connected to your organization.

How Might We

How Might We

Reframing your challenges as "How Might We" questions helps generate creative solutions while keeping teams focused on the right problems to solve. Use these tips to create great challenge questions.

The Jargon Trap

The Jargon Trap

Glean insights into how to communicate clearly and avoid the jargon trap.

Op Ed articles – How to Write and Place Them

Op Ed articles – How to Write and Place Them

Review tips for how to write and place op ed articles as part of your communications strategy.

Resources for Learning Social Media on Udemy

Resources for Learning Social Media on Udemy

Learn about how to use social media on Udemy. There are a number of courses on everything from Instagram to Facebook, etc.

Introduction to Google Adwords

Introduction to Google Adwords

Google AdWords presentation in Google Slides

7 Ways to Build Better Relationships with Journalists

7 Ways to Build Better Relationships with Journalists

This post, published by the PR services company Cision, touches on the tenets of “Slow PR,” a PR approach that focuses on building relationships. It talks about some of the approaches I suggested during my clinic, like becoming an active audience member of the journalists you want to pitch. But it also goes beyond pitching and suggests how to personally meet and maintain contact with journalists.

For People Who Make Websites

For People Who Make Websites

A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

Developing a Global Mindset

Developing a Global Mindset

Leadership and management in international business come with inherent challenges and discomfort. Whether you’re an international executive or a student, developing a Global Mindset will help you thrive in global business and beyond.

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Developing a Social Media Plan of Action
Sample Audience Persona Cards
Digital Tactics to Find and Keep Valuable Supporters of Your Work
How to Build a Social Media Strategy
5 Questions to Ask About Media
Marketing Questionnaire
Resources on Developing Key Messages
Message Tips
Being Memorable
Find Your Tribe
Introduction to Google Analytics
The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business
Content Marketing Editorial Calendar Templates
Ethical Storytelling Pledge
Ethical Storytelling
How to Tell Compelling Stories While Avoiding Savior Complex and Exploitation
Don't Touch that Facebook Boost Post Button
2017 Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Donor Management Systems
Getting Started with Google Analytics
Perfecting Your Pitch
How to Run a Donor Survey
Photography 101
Your 30-Second Elevator Pitch Is Way Too Long
Can Journalism Make Audiences Care?
Three Simple Steps to Creating an Ideal Customer Profile
What to Post on Each Social Media Platform: The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Social Content
The Impact Podcast with Neetal Parekh
Typito
Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar
The Ethical Guide To Building An Email List Without Sleazy Tactics
Google Digital Garage
Canva for Non Profits
Impact Distribution Worksheet
Dayani Cristal Campaign Example
Impact Distribution Plan 1
Assessing Creative Media's Social Impact
Sima Rama Cinema Club
From Distribution to Audience Engagement
The Unbearable Lightness of Non-Profit Propaganda
Impact Distribution Plan 2
Media that Matters - Evaluation Metrics
Why Communicate?
What is News?
How Might We
The Jargon Trap
Op Ed articles – How to Write and Place Them
Resources for Learning Social Media on Udemy
Introduction to Google Adwords
7 Ways to Build Better Relationships with Journalists
For People Who Make Websites
Developing a Global Mindset
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