Social media is great, but without understanding how your audiences now consume content, and what content to share, its relatively useless. In the presentation, we discuss best practices and what colleges are getting it right.
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Social Media in Alumni Relations
1. | social media in alumni relations
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2. WHAT’S ON THE AGENDA
Intro
What are Your Neighbors Doing?
Audience is King...and Content is a Constitutional Monarchy
Don’t Over-think the Channels
Main Take-A-Ways
Questions
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3. WHAT ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS DOING?
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4. AUDIENCE IS KING...
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WEBSITE.COM
AUDIENCE
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5. AUDIENCE IS KING...
You can’t control where they consume
Great stories will be universally accepted
Steal content from all corners of the University
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8. AUDIENCE IS KING...
EVENTS NEWS UNIVERSITY FACULTY STUDENTS ATHLETICS
312%
IMPROVED
OPEN RATE
+ 52% CLICK-THRU RATE
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9. CONTENT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
WEBSITE.CO
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10. CONTENT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
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11. CONTENT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
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12. CONTENT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
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13. DON’T OVER-THINK THE CHANNELS
@ EMAIL
WEBSITE.COM
AUDIENCE
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14. DON’T OVER-THINK THE CHANNELS
Define the purpose of each social channel
It’s ok to share the same stories on multiple channels
You probably don’t need your own social network
Mix in transactional content
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19. MAIN TAKE-A-WAYS
It’s OK that you can’t control consumption
Keep your channels to a minimum
Steal (gather) content from everyone, share
Don’t build the new Facebook
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