StorySync: Automatically Import Stories from Social Media

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.

Quick Links:

• How to Connect Your Social Media Accounts
• Learn About Other Do Some Good Integrations
• Best Practices

How to Connect Your Social Media Accounts

Enabling StorySync starts with connecting your social media channels to Do Some Good.

In your Management Area, go to the Widgets/Integrations page and the Integrations tab. Click the Connect button for any of the social media platforms.

You will be asked to log into your social media account and approve the connection. Then you will land on your Integrations Settings page. Ensure you have the setting selected that is shown in this image. 

That's it! Now whenever you want one of your social media posts to appear on Do Some Good, all you need to do is add #dosomegood to your social post. 

Promotion to Local Media Sites 

One of the biggest benefits to using StorySync is that, once your story is brought across to Do Some Good, it is promoted to local media sites via Do Some Good's partnerships with Pattison Media and Metroland Media. This provides your post with amazing reach and exposure!

Note: Our team reviews stories for basic media criteria, including content quality, relevance, imagery and geographic fit. This human moderation step helps ensure that the stories being distributed to our media partners are appropriate and well suited for public amplification.

Learn About Other Do Some Good Integrations

Do Some Good integrates with tools you may already use to help you share stories, streamline content sharing, and reduce duplicate work. Click the links below to learn more about available integrations:

• Publish stories to your social media accounts from Do Some Good
• Widgets: Display your Do Some Good stories, testimonials, volunteer opportunities, and events directly on your website or intranet.
  • Widgets (for Businesses)
  • Widgets (for Community Organizations)
• Zapier: Connect Do Some Good with other apps to automate tasks, such as sharing stories or creating new ones.
• RSS Feeds: Automatically share your Do Some Good content with other tools and platforms using feed links.
• Single Sign-On (SSO): Let your team log in to Do Some Good using their existing business credentials.

Best Practices

Sharing with Your Team To Get More Stories

If your own Do Some Good management team is not the group that manages social media for your organization, you should share the #dosomegood hashtag with the team that does. In many organizations one team manages Do Some Good and a different team, often the marketing team, manages the social media channels. 

If you add an integration that will automatically pull in stories from social media, make sure that you communicate that to your social media team that they need to add the #dosomegood hashtag to their community based stories. If you have an integration configured, stories with that hashtag will automatically be added to Do Some Good even if the social media manager does not have a Do Some Good account. 
 

Make a Habit of Adding the Hashtag to Social Posts

Make sure that the team responsible for social media posts is aware that the #dosomegood hashtag will spread their story further and give it more click throughs from media partners (where available). Make sure that any community post has the #dosomegood hashtag added as part of the process.