5 Ways To Make Your Website Social
Howard Lake | 13 December 2011 | Blogs
charity : water understand social. Here are 5 things you can learn from their website. (Be sure to visit their site yourself!)
1. Social isn’t a share button. It’s content
You can fill your page with share buttons and not get a single share, but if you post good content on your website it will get shared even if you don’t have share buttons. Good content is the key to sharing.
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2. If you want people to learn, you have to teach them
Charities do stuff. That stuff isn’t always easy to understand. Show people what you do. Do it quickly and simply. Don’t bury what you do four clicks deep.
3. More pictures less text
People don’t like text heavy websites. You’re eyes don’t like it, you’re brain doesn’t like it, you’re soul doesn’t like it. You may think you are conveying more, but sometimes less is more. Let pictures do your talking.
4. People like stats
Give people a stat, something hard they can hold and show to their friends. Empower them. Make them beautiful not size 8, face arial, color black.
5. Assume people want to do nothing and everything
Some people don’t like sharing, they don’t like doing, they like reading stuff and leaving your website. That’s fine, give them enough information to digest and bounce. For other people, they want to go all out. They don’t want to just read: they want a Twitter background, they want to put an MPU on their site, they want to donate and tell their friends, they want to tattoo your name to their forehead. You can do all except the last one on the charity : water website.
That’s what I learnt. What did you learn?
This blog post is by Jack Ashman and originally appeared on his blog.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.