Social Media for Watershed Educators
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{Why} Does
Social Media
Have to Change
Everything?Amy E. Hays
Emerging Technologies Program Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Institute of Renewable Natural Resources/Water Resources Institute
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Evolution 2
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Concept via Michael Weschhttp://www.michaelwesch.com/
Human History
Information Transfer
Clock
Writing4
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Printing Press
Telegraph
Telephone
Radio
TV
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SatelliteInternet
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Email MySpace
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Struggle
• How do I keep up?
• How do I keep my work/business up?
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Why does social media
have an impact
information discovery?
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Web 1.0 - static
Web 2.0 – user generated
Web 3.0 - simulate
Web 4.0 - ?
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http://archive.org/web/web.php
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IT’S ABOUT HOW SOCIAL
NETWORKING IMPACTS
INFORMATION SHARING9
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Go [there] to
find everything
about [THIS]
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Come [HERE ]information needs
to find me
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Evidence
• More email subscribers?
• More people at meetings?
• Budgets increasing for publications?
• Magazine adds/articles cheaper?
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Top Search Engines
•Google - 4,717,000,000/day
•YouTube - 26,666,666/day
•Facebook- 1,000,000,000/day
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MAJOR SHIFT - 2011Search Engine Optimization
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How Information Will Find
People in the Future
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• How many people access that information
(statistics on page views, site visits, ect…)
• Was this site socially shared???
• Was the page recommended, or rated by
a user?
• How timely is the information?
• Did any of my friends visit this site?
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Organizational Challenge
Are
TV, email, newsletters, radio,
magazines searchable?
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“That’s
Marketing's
Job”
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Why I’m online• Want to make
connections to friends and family
• Want to find new friends
• Share experiences and get feedback
• Keep up with news and information
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Why WE are online• Want to be an
influencer
• Seek support and opinion
• Share experiences and get feedback
• Keep up with news and information
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Biggest challenges
facing Watershed
[coordinators/educators]
• Nobody really understands what a watershed is?
• How do you keep a watershed healthy?
• Difficult to bring parties with a stake in watersheds
together
• Future sustainability of watersheds is critical to almost all
facets of business, human health, and natural resource
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in·for·ma·tion - the
communication or reception of knowledge or
intelligence
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dā-ta- factual information (as
measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation
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Biggest challenges
facing Watershed
Entities/Organizations
• Tightly controlled information
• Few information outlets
• Management does not grant “permission” for free sharing
of information by non-management
• Reliance on existing relationships
• Discounting outreach to non-traditional clients
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STRATEGIES TO DO NOW
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Tip #1 – You don’t
have to be involved in
a social network to
reap the benefits of
social media
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Website Check-up
• Is your website social media
ready?
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Website Best Practices• Do you have pictures with your articles?
• When people share your news, information, articles social
networks like Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ pull the text AND
attempt to pull a picture.
• Humans are 82% dominantly visual
• Do you practice good web writing skills?
• Writing for the web is NOT like writing for print.
• Learn characteristics of good web writing
• PDF’s are NOT searchable through search engines, make sure
to have GOOD summary paragraphs that go with PDF listings.
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Tip #2 – Think Mobile
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Mobile Now – Mobile First?
• There are now more than 1 billion smartphones in use worldwide: 1.038 billion in total.
• It took us 16 years to pass 1 billion but it's estimated to take only three years for the next billion smartphone users to come on board.
• 3.2 billion people, or 46% of the world's total population of 7 billion, have at least one active mobile (cellular, not just smarpthone) device.
• The global "addressable" population is 4.7 billion.
• Of the remaining 2.3 billion, 1.5 billion live in pockets with poor or no network coverage, though this should fall to 1.1 billion by 2017. The other 800m include some elderly, disabled and cash-strapped unemployed, as well as the very young or incarcerated. (source)
Source: Luke Wroblewski - http://www.lukew.com.
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Tip #3 – Pick a
strategy first, not a
tool
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Be Specific in Goals
• Do you want more people to sign up for
meetings, events, newsletters?
• Want more people at events?
• Want to drive people to your website?
• Have more fans/followers?
• Enhance your website with feeds?
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Sean Carton ClickZ – A Social Media Strategy Checklist
1. What are we trying to accomplish?
2. Why social media?
3. What kind of social media will help us best achieve our goals?
4. Are we prepared to let go of control of our brand, at least a little?
5. What will we do to encourage participation?
6. Who will maintain our social media presence?
7. Do we have the resources to keep this up, or will this be a short campaign?
8. How does engaging users via social media integrate into our overall marketing/communications strategy?
9. How do we measure success? What constitutes failure?
10. What will we do less of if we're spending resources on social media?
http://www.clickz.com/3634939 (Dec. 21, 2009)
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Tip #4 – DUNBAR
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How Do You Make the Top 150?
• A relationship means two way conversation• Ask questions
• Provide leads to new resources
• Highlight friends/partners information
• Provide context to links, comments
• Don’t just show a link, give dialog as to WHY your clients would
be interested
• Show a little personality
• Engage, engage, engage – all relationships must be cultivated
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Tip #5 – Listen/Follow
other good examples
FIRST.
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Two Excellent Examples:
• Texas Land Conservancy
• Trinity Waters – trinitywaters.org
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Trinity Waters –
Facebook, Twitter, Scoop.it
• Post information about conservation, watershed management, wildlife, conservation, ect…
• Publications
• News releases
• Popular articles
• Partners
• Consistent
• Post photo’s they take
• Advertise events (theirs and others)
• Ask questions, quizzes 42
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Texas Land Conservancy–
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
• Highlight properties
• Beautiful photos
• News releases
• Popular articles
• Partners
• Conversational
• High advocacy
• Advertise events (theirs and others)
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Tip #6 – Let others
help
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Avoid “one man” mentality
• Teach employee’s how to use social tools to “spread” the news
• Hold trainings on how your employee’s can be part of the process
• Don’t fall into a “marketing only” mentality
• Set reasonable guidelines on your expectations of social
channels and employee’s interactions
• Set tone and examples
• Encourage volunteers/advocates to help you in your social
media endeavor
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Tip #7 – Set measures
of evaluation. If it’s
not working, kill it.
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CHALLENGE FOR
THE FUTURE
THINKABOUT THE WAY PEOPLE
CONNECT WITH YOU
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Amy E. HaysEmerging Technologies Program Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Institute of Renewable Natural Resources/Water Resources Institute
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