Best Practices in Social Media: Part I

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Communicating with prospective students, current students, and alumni has become a full-time, multi-media job, and your current web site is one-dimensional for ongoing conversations. Facebook, twitter, flickr and YouTube are the places your audience goes to learn about everything, including you. Haven’t become an active participant in social media yet? During this two-part series, we will look at the right way to get started, using examples in admissions, student services, alumni relations, and individual academic departments.

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MediaTrends, Engagement Opportunities, and Implementation Strategies

Part One: Building a Social StrategyEric Hodgson :: August 26, 2010

About Me

Find this presentation:

http://slideshare.net/ehodgso

Let’s Take a Poll

Where are you with your institution’s social strategy:

a) We don’t know…that’s why we’re here.

b) We dabble, but still learning.c) We have something on paper, but

always looking to improve.

Why NOT Social Media

Photo by Walmink via Flickr

Why Social Media

Photo by Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel via Flickr

Electronic Communications

.edu

email

social

Where to Begin

Photo by Nat Tarbox via Flickr

Sharing

Fans

ParticipationParticipation

facebook.com/uconnfoundation

PROFILE PAGE GROUPYou begin the conversation, and hope that others will chime in

Best for vertical (one-way) communication

Best for horizontal communication among members

People can “friend” you/your profile persona

People can become “fans” of your page

People can become “members” of your group

Limited direct messaging (20 recipients max) to friends

Unlimited direct messages to fans

Limited direct messaging (5,000 recipients max) to members

Can be customized with applications

Can be customized with applications

Cannot be customized with applications

Monitor traffic based on activity and interaction

Page administrators have access to statistics & traffic

No access to statistics and traffic

My network

My network

# - hashtags (the secret to

searchable content)

Retweet

Syndication

Push to web

Twitter.com/marymount_admit/

Twitter.com/universityofga/

Elements of a Social Strategy

• Audience• Content• Staffing• Analytics In that

order

Audience

Photo by wsimmons via Flickr

Facebook.com/ufhousing/

Content

Photo by Phil Gyford via Flickr

Content Types

• Messaging• Releases• Actions• Personality• Location

Twitter.com/ucdavis

facebook.com/osu

flickr.com/photos/28562690@N08/

vimeo.com/user903499

Staffing

Photo by Michael Lokner via Flickr

Analytics

Photo by hutchscout via Flickr

Social Monitoring

Implementation

• Three year plan

• Adapt processes

• Roles, not people

Kent.edu

Cmu.edu/social-media

Admissions.boisestate.edu

Part Two: Implementing a Social

Strategy• Social account settings• .edu integration (both ways)• Generating traffic to and from these

sites• More analytics• Plenty of examples

• September 23, 2010

Find me• Find this presentation:

http://slideshare.net/ehodgso

• Find me:– twitter.com/ehodgso– facebook.com/ehodgso– eric-hodgson@uiowa.edu

• Find the UI:– twitter.com/givetoiowa– twitter.com/uiowaphil– facebook.com/philwashere– flickr.com/givetoiowa– vimeo.com/givetoiowa– youtube.com/givetoiowa

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