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Getting Digital: A review of web-based tools to enhance your marketing, graphic design, and communications strategy.
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Getting Digital: A review of web-based tools to enhance your marketing, graphic design, and communications strategy.

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Hello!I am Matt CummingsDePauw University

Assistant Director of Spirituality, Service, and Social Justice

@mattwcummings

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Hello!I am Lauren EvanoffDePauw Community Service Communications Coordinator

[email protected]

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1Branding Your

Center

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1Branding Your

CenterImage is

Everything

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“ You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it. -Gary Vaynerchuk

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Your center has a brand.

Start Building it now.

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Your center has a brand.

Start Building it now.

⊙ Focus on values

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Your center has a brand.

Start Building it now.

⊙ Focus on values⊙ Find ways to share

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Your center has a brand.

Start Building it now.

⊙ Focus on values⊙ Find ways to share⊙ Avoid the tl;dr

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Content must be visual

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Content must be visualIf they can’t see it.

They won’t pay attention.

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⊙ Where to Create

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⊙ Where to Create

Canva

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⊙ Where to Create

Canva Pixlr

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⊙ Where to Create

Canva PixlrPiktochart

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⊙ Where to Create

Canva PixlrPiktochart

Font Awesome

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⊙ Where to Create

Canva PixlrPiktochart

Font Awesome

Online Image Editor

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⊙ What to Create

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⊙ What to Create

Quotes

Videos

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⊙ What to Create

Quotes PicsAudio

Videos

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⊙ What to Create

Quotes PicsAudio

Photo Essays

Blogs

VideosVisual

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The following content is visual. Check the “reach”.

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The following content is not visual. Check the “reach”.

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2Build Your Audience

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2Build Your AudienceThe medium is is the massage

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You must have

strategyAdopted from Kivi Miller “Content

Marketing for Non-Profits”

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You must have

strategyAdopted from Kivi Miller “Content

Marketing for Non-Profits”

Content Strategy⊙ Each piece fits your “big story”

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You must have

strategyAdopted from Kivi Miller “Content

Marketing for Non-Profits”

Content Strategy⊙ Each piece fits your “big story”⊙ Dominated by 2nd person

“YOUR/YOU”

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You must have

strategyAdopted from Kivi Miller “Content

Marketing for Non-Profits”

Content Strategy⊙ Each piece fits your “big story”⊙ Dominated by 2nd person

“YOUR/YOU”⊙ Opportunities/Next steps

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You must have

strategyAdopted from Kivi Miller “Content

Marketing for Non-Profits”

Content Strategy⊙ Each piece fits your “big story”⊙ Dominated by 2nd person

“YOUR/YOU”⊙ Opportunities/Next steps⊙ Consistent Communications

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You must have

strategyAdopted from Kivi Miller “Content

Marketing for Non-Profits”

Content Strategy⊙ Each piece fits your “big story”⊙ Dominated by 2nd person

“YOUR/YOU”⊙ Opportunities/Next steps⊙ Consistent Communications⊙ Readers “feel” smarter after engaging

you

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TalkTo Your

Audience

Facebook

⊙ Post 3-5 times a week.

⊙ Use FB Insights.

⊙ Visual.⊙ Pay to

boost.

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TalkTo Your

Audience

Facebook

⊙ Post 3-5 times a week.

⊙ Use FB Insights.

⊙ Visual.⊙ Pay to

boost.

Instagram

⊙ Easier to get following

⊙ Multiple daily posts are okay.

⊙ Learn your campus “#’s”

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TalkTo Your

Audience

Facebook

⊙ Post 3-5 times a week.

⊙ Use FB Insights.

⊙ Visual.⊙ Pay to

boost.

Instagram

⊙ Easier to get following

⊙ Multiple daily posts are okay.

⊙ Learn your campus “#’s”

Mailchimp

⊙ This should be monthly.

⊙ 2-3 Images.⊙ Student

driven-content.

⊙ Link to external pages

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Look at this Eagle

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Look at this Eagle

Graphs are coming up next, just wanted to captivate your attention before the data comes

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In September 2015, we launched a content posting strategy for two FB pages...

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The third graph had no content strategy. We wanted to benchmark if our strategy would harvest likes.

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Content Strategy Won.

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Hartman House

DCS

“Other Page”

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FB Data Impressions

Start Likes9/1

Current Likes2/19

Growth Percent

Pred. 1 year

Hartman House 39,741 134 190 41.79% 300

DCS 32,644 192 251 30.72% 345

Other 10,152 176 192 9% 240

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Predictive Growth for Hartman House FB Page

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Predictive Growth for DCS FB Page

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Predictive Growth for “Other” FB Page

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No more charts. :)

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3Creating Content

Plans

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3Creating Content

Plansthat don’t suckare Engaging

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Creating Content

YOUR CONTENTCurated Created

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Curatethe

Content

REPOST⊙ AllTop.com⊙ Reddit ⊙ Buzzfeed.⊙ Top Social Media Influencers

○ George Takei○ Guy Kawasaki○ Gary Vaynerchuk○ Kivi Miller

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Createthe

Content

Create⊙ Visual⊙ Less text⊙ If possible, short video.

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Homework time

:)

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Homework time

:)

Your Content Creation Plan⊙ What are your center/organization’s

core values?

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Homework time

:)

Your Content Creation Plan⊙ What are your center/organization’s

core values?⊙ How are these values being fulfilled

by people at your center?

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Homework time

:)

Your Content Creation Plan⊙ What are your center/organization’s

core values?⊙ How are these values being fulfilled

by people at your center?⊙ How can you make these content

moments?

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Credits Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:⊙ Presentation template by

SlidesCarnival⊙ Photographs by Unsplash

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Thanks!Any questions?@mattwcummings

[email protected]

[email protected]


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