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Case Study: Knight News Challenge 2008‐09
Using social media to drive awareness & engagement (while
being lean but not mean) Susan Mernit
Social Media for Social AcFon October2009
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How to use social media tools—Facebook, TwiNer, Flickr & blogs—to create awareness for your project that will get you new audiences, deeper user engagement and more buzz—without a lot of cost: a case study.
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Knight News Challenge (newschallenge.org): Annual compeFFon awarding $5MM in funds to projects that support local news and discussion in specific geographic communiFes (3 yrs) Open compeFFon, anyone can enter, products MUST be open source InternaFonal reach, proposals sought from wide range of communiFes
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Goals for 2008‐09 challenge: Improve quality and diversity of applicaFons Improve peer support and peer mentoring experiences at start of program Strengthen internaFonal applicaFons, parFcularly in Asia What we had to work with:
Part Fme team of 3 people: 5 hours a week each for 2 months $2,500 events budget Free social media tools
Results we achieved: 47 % increase in traffic to newschallenge.org 50% increase in unique visitors 17,000 uniques at site last day of compeFFon, 100% increase 224 blog posts about program compared to 24 the previous year Vibrant community: 1,800 registrants for NC Garage
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So how did we do that?
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Made A Plan w/Measurable Goals Goals: Increase awareness in tech & social media communities Create viral buzz, blogosphere Diversify applications Build community
Tactics: Orchestrate program of blogging Local meet-ups Build Garage, peer review/mentoring Multiple Facebook groups & events Email blasts across the world Outreach to key influencers Multiple twitter accounts 2X day for 2 months
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Executed plan, on a schedule
• Built 2 month, 3X a week schedule for blog posts; asked reviewers to blog
• Assigned main twiNerer; retweeted, thanks others for retweets
• AcFve flickr groups; • #hashtag, #knc09 • 2X week email blasts • 9 live meet ups across US over 2 months
• Video tesFmonials • Repeated contacts w/influencers, bloggers
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Budgeted Fme & money
• Time – Assigned staffers, distributed Fme over week
– Minimized lingering, turned social media OFF
– Weekly call discussing roles, impact, goals for week
• Money – P/T social media community manager for 2 months, 15 hours week
– Free spaces for meet‐ups, soda & chips for snacks
– No hotel bills; planned with Knight travel
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Results 2,323 entries submitted 60,000 mentions of “Knight News Challenge” on non-Knight sites in 2008; 110% increase from 2007 1,800 registrants, Garage; 50% applied 400 attendees, live meet-ups; 50% applied 700 links to mentions of the events indexed in Google, 30 photos on Flickr tagged Knight News Challenge meet up) Write ups NYT, Valleywag
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Why did this work ?
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Social Networks are growing VERY QUICKLY
Twitter Facebook FriendFeed Flickr YouTube
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Adults have joined FB & TwiNer In the past year, Twitter traffic has grown 3,700%; minutes spent on Facebook have increased 700% in the same time frame
In the U.S, total minutes spent on social networking sites have increased 83 percent year‐over‐year. Visitors aged 25 to 34 and 35 to 49 were the highest indexing age groups on Facebook, represenQng 27 percent and 23 percent as more likely to visit the site than the average user, respecQvely.
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RecommendaFons for Success
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PLAN A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN Delegate bloggers, writers, editors to Twitter, cross-link Develop strong presence on Facebook Live tweets some events
Make one staffer accountable; provide support and tools a la @andycarvin @ NPR.org
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What to measure • Increase in traffic
• Increase uniques
• Increase frequency of visits • Increase followers & fans • Increase bloggers (new pipeline) • Re‐tweets • @replies to staffers
• Links to your content
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Tools to use to measure
Web traffic
• Google analyFcs – How to videos
Social Media
• Bit.ly: measures clicks • TwiNercounter • Count registraFons • Count comments
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Real Time Resources to learn more Public Media Collaborative, volunteer group dedicated to free and low cost training in social media—jpin the FB group(http://bit.ly/1UkVC)
Net Squared Net Tuesdays, monthly meet-ups at Tech Soup Global, San Francisco, next meeting (http://www.netsquared.org)
Non profit boot camp, Craigslist Foundation http://craigslistfoundation.org/schedule.html
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Web resources for follow‐up Social media for social action, Susan Mernit, white paper documenting social media outreach by The Knight News Challenge & others http://susanmernit.com/services/
Beth Kanter’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media-http://beth.typepad.com
Deanna Zandt, forthcoming book, Share This! How You Will Change the World With Social Networking! (Barrett-Koehler) &her blog: http://deannazandt.com
Rebecca Leaman, Wild Apricot’s Non Profit Tech Blog, http://www.wildapricot.com/blogs/newsblog
SocialBrite, social tools for social change, http://socialbrite.org
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Thanks for listening! Susan Mernit [email protected] Twitter: susanmernit
Oakland Local http://oaklandlocal.com News for the people