Nonprofit Technology Conference Presentation: Content Creation

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Digital Content Creation 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference 3/23/2017

Transcript of Nonprofit Technology Conference Presentation: Content Creation

Digital Content Creation2017 Nonprofit Technology

Conference 3/23/2017

EMILY LOCKWOOD BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

Senior Program Officer, College Ready

BOB ALBRECHT ANNE LEWIS STRATEGIES, LLC

Vice President

ADVA PRISO ANNE LEWIS STRATEGIES, LLC

Associate Vice President

The Basics Teacher2Teacher:

A community for teachers, built with teachers

The Basics Launched in July 2015

Social first – “go where the teachers are”

800k members of community across four channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Email)

3.1 million teachers in the U.S. – 2.7 million in public schools

Engagement rates exceeding industry benchmarks

Authentic engagement, not marketing

1. Reduce isolationTeachers have a deep desire to collaborate with peers.

2. Reduce the huntOverwhelming landscape makes it hard to find the right materials. Lack of time for teachers amplifies this issue.

3. Elevate and celebrate the profession Teachers want and deserve professional respect.

4. Recognize teachers as leadersTeachers want new roles that allow them to grow professionally while staying in the classroom.

5. Trust the teachersTeachers trust one another more than anyone else.

“There is a silver bullet in education.

It’s the teachers.”

Molly Robbins,

High School English Teacher, Colorado

Build trust. Motivate. Model. Provide resources.

All in the voice of a teacher.

Build trust … these are your people

Model collaboration and leadership … if they did it, I can do it

Practice … the best resources, bottom up

#WhyITeach: A Case Study

Reduce isolation Teachers have a deep desire to collaborate with peers.

Elevate and celebrate the profession Teachers want and deserve professional respect.

>100,000 uses of hashtag >5,000 downloads of toolkit 7,520,971 video views

47,734,459 impressions

99,942 Facebook engagements

Effective content:

Lives inside guardrails that map to your North Star

Aligns with your North Star

Tells the story only you can tell

Elements of content creation

Use no more words than are necessary.

Be clear and concise

Choose photos that help tell your story.

Convey emotion

Use the functionalities that make each medium unique.

Be channel-specific

Use data to challenge your

assumptions and guide

optimizations.

Follow the data

$1.42 cost per acquisition

$1.02 cost per acquisition

$0.75 cost per acquisition

$0.49 cost per acquisition

6.2% increase in

conversions

126.5% increase in

conversions

14.8% increase in

conversions

68.9% increase in

conversions

Discussion