Social Sharing
Last modified: 23-08-2024Settings ⟶ Social sharing
An important part of the iRaiser platform is the ability to share pages via social media. This can easily be done via the share icons found in several places of the platform. These consist of:
- A button to share via Facebook
- A button to share via Twitter
- A button to share via WhatsApp
- A button to share on LinkedIn
- A button to share via Emails
- A widget to embed a Donations or subscribe button on an external site
- A button to download a QR code that leads to Donate on that page
- A button to indicate that you would like to be kept up to date with news updates around that page.
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- Customise sharing texts
- Widget
- Caching at Facebook and LinkedIn
- Tip: Add Whatsap link to iRaiser button
Customise sharing texts
Some of the texts that appear on social media can be customised.
- Click to edit the default texts at Modify default.
- Please note: In the E-mail text, %url% must always be present, as this will be replaced by the link being shared.
- Customise the text and click Save. The text has been modified.
The standard texts contain generic texts. We recommend adapting them to your event/action/purpose. Sharing via socials is a powerful tool to get potentialële donors to the platform, so make sure there are activating texts that link well to the site.
Widget
The widget can be recognised by this icon:
The widget allows you to embed a Donations or sign-up button on an external site. Completing the subscription or Donations will always take place on the iRaiser platform, but it is a great way to link the corporate site to the iRaiser platform.
Action and team captains can also use the widget, and thus easily share their own action on an external site.
Donation button
The donation button can be on the left or on the right. You can choose the variant via 'Customise'. You can then retrieve the html code via 'Embed'. You can insert this code in the <head> of the external website, after which the donation button will be shown.
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Widget
The widget contains several elements. At the bottom, one of the icons can be clicked to switch to the amount raised, Donations and About us text. You cannot change the default of these, it is always on the Fundraisers Description first, to give some context.
You can adjust the width of the widget via 'adjust'. If it is set correctly, you can find out the code via Embed. Again, you can then add it in the <head> of the external website.
If you put this code on the external site the widget will appear:
Caching at Facebook and LinkedIn
It sometimes happens that you have replaced a photo on the site and share it via Facebook, but you still see the old photo there. Sharing via LinkedIn or Facebook always retrieves the image from the page, however, it often happens that LinkedIn/Facebook has not yet processed a new image across all their servers. As a result, you then see the old cached version still coming back (or in some cases no image). There are tools to manually update this in the case of old information.
For LinkedIn, this is the post inspector. This lets you 'scrape' the new information so it will show this when sharing. You copy the link you wanted to share on LinkedIn and it will refresh it.
For Facebook, this is the debugger. Again, you run the link to the collection box through the scraper and then pdatet the photo. If you share the site afterwards you do see the good photo.
Share via Instagram
It is not possible to share via an external site directly on Instagram. Instagram does not allow that. However, action starters, for example, could share their fundraising page on their own via Instagram. This can be done in two ways:
Share Fundraising page via Instagram story
You can add the link via a story. You do this by:
- Copy the link to the Fundraising page. For example https://demo.kentaa.nl/fundraisers/jasper-lemmen
- Go to new post in Instagram and add a nice photo
- Then type some text about your action, e.g. 'I'm going cycling for charity. Will you support my action?'
- Then add a link and copy the link to your Fundraising page (or possibly directly to Donate to your action)
You can also share any archived story again on Instagram.
- Go to the archive and click on the old story
- Click Highlight to share it again and choose a good text
Add fundraising page to Instagram bio
You can add a link in your bio. You do this as follows:
- Click your profile icon and then Edit profile
- Click on Add links and choose Add external link
- Copy the url (e.g. https://demo.kentaa.nl/fundraisers/jasper-lemmen), add a title and click done
Tip: Add Whatsap link to iRaiser button
Here is a nice practical example from one of our clients. Perhaps this would also be a nice addition for your site? Or for in one of your emails?
Our platform already includes a button for sharing a site via social media, such as Facebook and Whatsapp. However, it is always in a standard place (under the drop-down menu 'share this page').
For the zero percentforals campaign, ALS created its own share button to give it a more prominent place within the platform. They put this in a Content page (in Content > Description) as follows:
If you press the (bottom) button you will automatically share the page via Whatsapp. You can set the text you want to add to that.
Kentaa button
The button you see is a 'iRaiser button'. You create it in the editor as follows. You click on Insert/Edit hyperlink
There you enter text (which will appear on the button) and the URL. In addition, choose Knowledge button under type.
URL
The basic structure of the link is as follows. You need to remove <Text> and <URL> here and replace them with your own text and URL.
https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=&text=<Text>%20https%3a%2f%2f<URL>
This url can be replaced with your own text. It is separated as follows:
%20 (space)
%3a (:)
%2f (/)
Example
The entire URL that is behind the button at zero-percentage-forward is the following:
https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=&text=I%20challenge%20you%20out!%20In%20January%20don't%20drink%20alcohol%20
%20and%20support%20the%20fight%20against%20ALS%20.%20https%3a%2f%2fwww.nulprocentvoorals.nl
The first part of the link is standard code that links it to Whatsapp:
https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=&text=
The second part is the text, which consists of:
I%20dare%20you%20out! %20In%20January%20don't%20drink%20alcohol%20and%20support%20the%20fight%20against%20ALS%20.
And the last part is the url. Which consists of the front section https:// :
%20https%3a%2f%2f
And the link itself:
www.nulprocentvoorals.nl
And as always, if you have any questions, please contact us!