Engagement leads to trust, which leads to results
Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations and NGOs on Facebook.
Facebook is about friendships. It’s about reconnecting with old friends and keeping up with close friends.
Facebook is not about buying things or getting the lowest price. There are already websites for that, like Amazon and eBay.
Facebook is relational, it’s not transactional.
In their new book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” authors Beth Kanter and Katie Payne talk about the “ladder of engagement” as a way to visualize how nonprofits move people in stages from awareness to action.
The diagram at top might be called the “Facebook Ladder of Donor Engagement.” Keep in mind that his diagram is just one way to represent how donors relate to your nonprofit or organization on Facebook.
Interactions increase as trust goes up
You’ll notice two data points:
1Trust and affinity: As people become aware of your organization and interact with you at different levels of commitment, trust and affinity increase (or decrease if you’re not trustworthy or likable).
2Audience size: Similar to the sales funnel model popular in the for-profit world, audience sizes very become smaller at each stage of the game.
In this diagram, each step represents an action someone can take on Facebook to express their relationship with a cause, but it may look very different for your nonprofit.
Tell us: What does this ladder look like for your organization?
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