# 5 ways to make your website social

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/12/13/5-ways-make-your-website-social/
- Published: 2011-12-13T17:02:04+00:00
- Author: Guest Blogger

**Charity : water understand social. Here are 5 things you can learn from their 
website. (Be sure to [visit their site yourself](http://www.charitywater.org)!)**

### 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](http://twitter.com/Jack_Ashman) and originally
appeared on [his blog](http://jackashman.wordpress.com)._