Blog, Non-Profits, Social Media, Uncategorized / 20.04.2016
5 Ways Nonprofit Blogs Can Prevent a Social Media Disaster
When I was working on my English degree at Mississippi State, I quickly learned the importance of editing and multiple drafts. It always perturbed me when my professors would hand me a paper covered in red marks and tell me to try again. But as one professor told me, “Your first draft will always suck.” You never know how people will respond to what you’ve written until you have someone else read it. It wasn’t until I became a copywriter that I realized how much that statement applied to writing nonprofit blogs.
Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone gets all excited about doing something? Maybe it’s about making a change in software or holding a big event. Whatever the “something” is, everyone is excited. Then you leave and a month later you get back together, get excited again but nothing ever gets done. Pretty soon you’re just phoning it in for those pep rallies because you know you’ll never actually see anything happen.
The number one objection we hear from people about opening social media accounts is "what if someone posts negative online reviews?". At this point, your customers, clients, supporters or patients are online, and they are talking about you. The real question is "are you listening?".
