173. How to Make Sense of Social Media + Find Your Unique Voice - Christina Edwards

Meet Christina. This digital expert works with all types of nonprofit clients from multi-million dollar organizations to small-but-mighty volunteer-led teams. She’s passionate about empowering nonprofits to step into their expertise, be bold and find their unique voice and audience online. Today, she’s our social media handler and talking through setting goals, tracking metrics, finding your unique digital voice and measuring your success. If you’ve ever had a leader say, “how do we track our social media metrics?” then this is your episode.Episode HighlightsChristina’s story and journey to where she is today (2:30)Where to start: setting your mindset around your social media (6:00)Building a digital soul (10:30)Email lists and voice style guides (14:00)Common mistakes made by organizations with their social media (16:30)Loaded captions and scroll-stopping content (18:00)Maximizing Canva (24:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Christina’s life (29:00)Christina’s One Good Thing: Talk to yourself more than you listen to yourself. (35:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/173The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/helloAbout our Sponsor GivebutterGivebutter is Loved by over 30,000 nonprofits, student groups, sports teams, schools, companies, and individuals just like you, and PS: it’s also loved by the three of us who are superfans of their incredible giving platform. 💛 Givebutter helps you collect donations like a boss. It's never been easier to add a donate button to your website, collect dues from group members, or link a payment form to just about anything.Re-think the way you run fundraising events. Sell tickets to your event while also collecting additional donations from attendees and supporters, with all of Givebutter's unique fundraising features built right on top. It’s buttery goodness at its finest, and it’s helping you do more for your mission online. Learn more at givebutter.com//Join the We Are For Good Community—completely free.Join fellow changemakers, share takeaways from this working session, and keep collaborating in a space built for connection, inspiration, and real impact: www.weareforgoodcommunity.comSay hi 👋LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter