Regularly posting stories strengthens your brand and reputation as a company that cares. This builds trust and loyalty with customers and employees, and attracts new business and top talent.
Quick Links:
- How to Post Stories
- What to Post About
- See Your Posts Hit Local Media Sites
- Sharing Your Posts To Social Media From Do Some Good
- Drafts and Scheduling
- Best Practices
How to Post Stories
There are many different ways to post stories on Do Some Good. Let's look at each one.
Manually Posting Stories
If you can post on Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn, you can post manually on Do Some Good. It's very easy and will feel similar to other social media sites.
When you're an admin of a company, there are two places you can post from. You can post stories from your "News" tab.
Or you can also post from your "News & Marketing" page in your company's Management Area. We always recommend that admins post from the Management Area since it provides the most posting options and allows you to see all of your company's posts.
Posting Via Social Media Link
Go to your story post on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, or Instagram and grab the post link. (Tip: get the link by either clicking the triple dot menu on the post or click on the post and grab the URL)
Paste the link in your posting window on Do Some Good and hit "Enter" or "Return" on your keyboard. The post will be re-created for you!
Posting Via StorySync (Automatically Import Stories from Social Media)
Want to automatically import stories from your social channels into Do Some Good? Try StorySync!
StorySync is Do Some Good’s social media integration feature that connects your social media accounts to your Do Some Good profile, making it easy to bring your existing posts onto the platform. Simply add #dosomegood to your Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn posts, and StorySync can pull that content into Do Some Good, giving your stories another opportunity to be discovered and amplified through the platform and its media partnerships.
Learn how to set up StorySync here.
Posting Via Story Generator
Our Story Generator tool allows you to have stories from your donors, supporters, and volunteers auto-created for you, saving you significant time. There are templates to get you started. Here's an article that walks you through how to use the Story Generator tool.
Posting As Your Company vs. Yourself
When posting from your News Feed (or "News" tab), you have the choice of posting as your company or as yourself, just like on social media sites.
Just click anywhere inside the posting box and it will unfold. Click on your name and a drop-down list will open and you can toggle between posting as yourself and as your company.
Posting to Employees Only
This option is only available when posting from your Management Area and is a feature in our Premium package. If you would like this feature, but don't require any of the other employee engagement features, we can do an a la carte add-on to your account (cost involved). Email us at hello@dosomegood.ca to learn more.
At the bottom right of the posting box, there's a drop-down list where you can choose to post to the public or to employees only.
This allows you to have posts about community news, events, volunteer opportunities, etc. show up just on your employees' newsfeeds, as well as on any widgets you've embedded on your staff intranet site.
Geo-Targeting Your Posts
You have the option of targeting your posts to all or just some of the locations in your address book. (Ensure your address book is up to date with all of your locations!). Each time you go to your "News & Marketing" page in your Management Area, ALL of your address book locations will be loaded in by default. Click the "X" next to the city name to remove that location. If you want to add it back in, just start typing the city name in the white space.
Adding a Title
You have the option of including a title or "headline" to your story. We this as it will help your post stand out more when you share it and draw people in.
When the story is posted in the newsfeed, the title will be displayed over the image in a blue bar.
Adding Multiple Photos
You can add up to 8 photos to your post by dragging and dropping them or uploading. The first uploaded photo will be the preview image for the story when seen in a news feed and viewers will be able to cycle through the photos in a carousel by clicking the arrows or swiping (if using a touch screen device).
What to Post About
Don't know what to post? We have lots of ideas HERE! Whether you post about a recent donation your business made to a local charity, your employees volunteering in the community, or simple acts of kindness, just focus on the theme of doing good.
See Your Posts Hit Local Media Sites
Through Do Some Good's media partnerships, any stories you post on Do Some Good (or are tagged in and you approve) also appear on local media sites. This is great reach and exposure for your brand, enhancing your reputation as a company that cares. For more about media promotion and how it works, check out this article.
Sharing Your Posts To Social Media From Do Some Good
Manually Sharing Stories to Social Media
You can manually push any Do Some Good story to your social media accounts.
Simply go to any of your Do Some Good posts and click the share icon in the bottom left corner. A window will open with options for you to share your story on Facebook, X, or LinkedIn, to create a QR code to the story, or to copy a link to it.
Automatically Sharing Stories to Social Media
You can use Do Some Good integrations to automatically have any stories you post on Do Some Good hit your social media channels. Click here to learn how to set this up.
Drafts and Scheduling
If you are not ready to post a story because you are still working on it, or, because you want it to go out on a specific date/time, user our draft and scheduling features.
Best Practices
Want to automatically import stories from your social channels into Do Some Good? Try StorySync!
StorySync is Do Some Good’s social media integration feature that connects your social media accounts to your Do Some Good profile, making it easy to bring your existing posts onto the platform. Simply add #dosomegood to your Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn posts, and StorySync can pull that content into Do Some Good, giving your stories another opportunity to be discovered and amplified through the platform and its media partnerships.
Learn how to set up StorySync here.
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