Social Networking Uses to Reach Alumni and Students
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- 1. Social Networking Uses to Reach Alumni and Students May 22, 2009 Illinois Eastern Community Colleges Cabinet RetreatAllerton Park
- 2. Our goals for today:
- 5. It’s cheap
- 6. It’s always with them
- 8. You’re limited to connections through the software
- 9. No control over the software
- 10. Too much contact desensitizes relationships
- 12. People
- 14. Marketing pieces
- 16. Daily work
- 19. Daily upkeep
- 20. Enhancements
- 22. What’s been happening on Facebook? General Growth* More than 175,000 million active users* An average of 600,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2009 *If Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world. User Demographics* More than half of Facebook users are outside of college* The fastest growing demographic is women 55 years old and older* Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities User Engagement* Sixth-most trafficked site in the United States (comScore)* More than 65 billion page views per month* More than half of active users return daily* People spend an average of 20 minutes on the site daily (comScore) www.web-strategist.comwww.facebook.com
- 23. Using Functions for Marketing Status….it’s addictive!
- 27. What’s been happening on MySpace? · MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active usersaround the globe]· 85% of MySpace users are of voting age (18 or older)· 1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace, in the UK it’s as common tohave a MySpace as it is to own a dog ·On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day ·MySpace has:·14 Billion comments on the site·50 Million mails per day (more than Yahoo, Hotmail,or Google)·10 Billion friend relationships·1.5 Billion images·8 Million images being uploaded per day·60,000 new videos being upload to MySpaceTV each day www.web-strategist.com
- 29. You can send messages to more than 1 friend
- 32. A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S.
- 33. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members. www.linkedin.com
- 40. Very similar to E-vite
- 42. Place info in your profile status message
- 43. Create a comment (on MySpace)
- 45. Best Practices - MySpace www.myspace.com/collegesanduniversities
- 46. Best Practices - MySpace http://orangeconnection.org/socialmedia
- 47. Best Practices -- MySpace www.myspace.com/iamfresnostate
- 48. Best Practices -- MySpace www.myspace.com/ucsantacruz
- 49. Best Practices Top 5 Alumni Groups on LinkedIn
- 51. Work with your data people to capture the allowed information
- 52. Partner with your career services department to guide discussions, post job fairs, and educate students/alumni on how to use the tool
- 54. How to measure success? Number of friends Opportunities to post for other campus groups Page views Comments/e-mails Tagging of images Requests for promotions
- 55. Measuring results -- Facebook
- 56. Measuring results -- Facebook
- 57. Measuring results -- Facebook
- 58. Measuring results -- MySpace Reggie’s MySpace friends:7% 17 and under26% age 18-2446% age 25-2914% age 30-354% age 36-407% age 40+
- 59. Measuring results – LinkedIn
- 60. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- Will discuss actual financial investment it takes us on average to maintain sitesMachines than can handle graphics, quality RAM, recommend laptop – Adobe photoshop is a recommended investment and training on how to use it Marketing – we’ve spend nominal funds – less than $200 – to have take away fliers at eventsStaffing – some extra hands…student worker/GA is a great investment!
- Will discuss the actual personal staff investment it takes us on average to maintain sitesMe and a GA who works 20 hours a week Divide responsibilities –GA – does birthdays, event invitations, calendar entries, friend requestsMe – design of myspace layouts, marketing, answer inquiries, status challenges, planningBrought in student worker for a special Homecoming promotion
- Will discuss actual time it takes us on average to maintain sitesInitially took 10 hours to get the Myspace/Facebook pages designedInvested some time initially – about an hour a day for a couple of weeks to get sites populated with friend requestsDaily upkeepOn average – we’re spending – collectively, about 15-20 hours a week in keeping these communities going.Enhancements – new designs, adding more pictures, right now – it takes me about a half a day to design a new layout for myspace – just depends on how complex and how many interruptions I have Future – I don’t get very much time to do planning and marketing, but that is my hope as we continue to devote more time to our virtual relationship cultivation.
- Let’s take a look at how we’ve been using Facebook at Illinois State.
- Let’s take a look at how we’ve been using Facebook at Illinois State.
- Let’s take a look at how we’ve been using Facebook at Illinois State.
- You’ll notice, I don’t have that many examples for the FB profile, because you really can’t change the look of this very much. What I do to keep things fresh is change the profile picture and I use images that Reggie’s Facebook friends have tagged featuring him…which has received quite a bit of positive response, and has been an incentive for people to keep tagging him in pictures.
- Texas Tech – creative use of photo for fan page design – allows them to share more branding information in a aesthically pleasing wayISU’s incoming freshman page – to combat the vendors who created a fake group to poach information
- Texas Tech – creative use of photo for fan page design – allows them to share more branding information in a aesthically pleasing wayISU’s incoming freshman page – to combat the vendors who created a fake group to poach information
- Tagged photos
- Profile views –This is a feature that shows how often you’ve been viewed. If you really have the time, you could track the stats monthly, quarterly … You can also reset the views if you want.You can also track number of comments you receive, number of messages,