1. Describe your Club in 120 characters or less. (This can be used for social media profiles.)
2. What is your Club’s:
Mission statement?
Vision statement?
When were you organized?
3. List the various stakeholders of your Club. (Community leaders, School board, City Council,
other service organizaons, etc…)
How do these stakeholders interact with your Club?
Where do they learn about what you are doing?
How can you like, share, or co-sponsor what they share on your social media plaorms?
Social Media Strategy
Development Guide for Optimist Clubs
4. How will the Club manage its social media presence?
Will it be the responsibility of a Club officer, chair posion or social media commiee?
Do all of these individuals have Facebook accounts if using Facebook?
Do you have the experience in the Club to use the various social media plaorms effecvely or someone
willing to learn – i.e. Facebook, Twier, Instagram?
5. Who will have access to the social media accounts?
6. Have you put together a social media policy? (What is acceptable and what is not?)
Have you set the profanity sengs to the highest level on Facebook?
When will you remove something? (If someone posts something negave, polical, selling something, etc.)
Who will determine what is allowed and is not allowed within the policy?
7. Top three Club objecves/goals for the next year?
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8. Who is the target audience related to the Club’s goals? (1-3 correspond to the above)
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9. What are the key words associated with your:
Club
Organizaon
Audience
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0. How will you measure success toward your stated objecves/goals? (What would you consider a success?
Addional volunteers? Raise more money at fundraiser? Addional aendees at an event or program?
Addional nominaons? More Facebook Likes?)
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1. Creang a Content Calendar: A content calendar is a way to easily collaborate social media efforts. It can be a
useful tool, allowing a Club to create large amounts of content at one me and scheduling content to appear
on different social media plaorms at appropriate mes. Facebook allows you to schedule posts and events
months ahead of the actual date. Clubs should strive to post regularly but not all content should/can be
scheduled ahead.
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2. Creang a monthly calendar can help you separate out social media tasks for:
1. Events, acvies and fundraisers.
2. How frequently you’ll post.
3. Who is responsible.
4. Monthly themes or topic.
5. Providing images, video or links.
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3. Measure your impact on a monthly basis
1. Each social media plaorm has “insights” that show stascs, page views and engagement.
2. Use the “insights” to redefine your content calendar.
3. Ask: How has our social presence impacted our Club?
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4. How will you transion accounts? (Include me for educaon and training.)
Social media is an addional tool to market and publicize your Opmist Club. Taking the me to add in a social
media strategy to your Club’s markeng plan can help your Club’s growth, volunteer pool and fundraising.
For more social media guides and to connect with Opmist Internaonal, visit www.opmist.org.