“I loved working with Empower. They quickly helped us develop a best practice approach to our social channels, advise and train internal teams to create engaging content increasing our visibility against competitors, driving course sign ups and turning our key metrics from red to green in just 3 months.”
Kharunya Paramaguru – Director of Marketing and Communications
In this article:
About First Draft News
First Draft News is a coalition of organisations working with newsrooms, universities, platforms and civil society organisations to protect communities from harmful misinformation.
The Challenge
First Draft approached Empower with the brief of helping raise awareness, broaden their target audience and drive sign ups to online courses and live seminars. Empower were tasked to produce an integrated social media strategy, including managing content and creatives, messaging, channels, and measurement.
The Approach
Empower initially completed a detailed audit of First Draft’s online presence, environment and peers, identifying challenges and opportunities to be addressed in line with their wider marketing and comms objectives.
From this insight, practical recommendations were implemented, including channels, content planning and writing, tone, frequency, themes, creatives, engaging stakeholders, setting metrics, data analysis, and more.
The Results
- Reinvigorated Twitter account with 4% increase in followers over 4 months.
- LinkedIn moved from dormant to active, with a 36% follower increase over 6 months
