How to run a great charity
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Mary Mitchell, Content Strategist.@whitefuse
@mary_mitch
What’s your burning question?
● Learn from each other● Walk away with practical resources● Increase confidence in strategy and
planning● Increased knowledge of tools and
programmes to make life easier!● Increased confidence in writing posts
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1. What are your objectives?
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● Increase the number of volunteering enquiries
● Increase the number of individual donors
● Challenge stereotypes about people with disabilities
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1. What are your blog objectives?
2. How will you achieve them (tactics)?
3. How will you measure success (KPIs)?
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Think about process management.
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Read other blogs :-)
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Save your ideas
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Choose your keywords
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Get your team on board
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Write for your audience
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Keep your goals in mind
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Include unique voices and perspectives
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Think about tone of voiceIf your organisation was a person, what would he/she be like? How would you want them to be perceived?
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Use subheadingsOnly 20-28% of text on a web page is read.
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Front-load your information
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LINK LINK LINK
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(Meta)Description160 characters. Appears in search results.
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SummaryUsed by the blog home page.
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Categories & taggingUseful for SEO and also for readers!
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● Creative Commons License● Free images
(Wikimedia/Flickr)● Paid images (Stock photos)
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Back to objectives
● What are your calls to action?
● What is your intended user journey?
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On-page sharing
● Add This● Share buttons● Ask for a share!
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But remember user experience….
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Promotion through social
● Multiple tweet texts● Schedule● Monitor and engage with
conversations
(Ask others to link to it)
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WHY MEASURE?
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WHAT TO MEASURE?
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● Overall blog visits● Unique visitors● Traffic sources● Top posts● Average post views● Inbound links
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WHY MEASURE?
8 Strategic Blog Questions
Twitter / @mary_mitch / @whitefuse Email / [email protected]