An introduction to using social media for those who are looking for a starting point, examples or ideas. Covers basic things you should be looking at and finishes with examples of content created for different channels
2. Your Audience
Who?
How old are they?
What language do they
use?
Where do they live?
Which social channels do
they use?
Why?
Concerned citizens?
Love of learning?
Single issue?
Local or national concerns?
How does your content
make them look?
When?
When do they get up?
Do they work 9-5?
Do they have dinner with
their families?
When do they use social
media?
3. What?
What are similar
campaigns doing?
What time works best?
What type of content?
What length of video?
How?
Question: “Will using emoji in tweets increase engagement?”
Current data: Current engagement rate is averaging 1.1%
Method: Used at least 1 emoji in every Tweet for 2 weeks
Final data: Average engagement rate is 1.6% however mostly
people telling us to stop using emoji
Always be testing
4. Example: Audience on Twitter
Demographic
Male living or working in
London
Probably uses an iPhone
but is also likely to
access Twitter on the
desktop as well
Interested in business
and news
Related
Typical commute into
London is 71 minutes
and 7.9 miles
London commuters get
up at 07:29 and go to
bed 00:31
Lunchtime is 13:30
Suggested
Experiments
Change our 17:30 Tweet
to 18:20
Change 08:30 Tweet to
07:40
Change 12:30 Tweet to
13:30
Tweet between football
matches on Saturday
5. Grid Planning - Example
Campaign 1
Type
Research
Press Release
Infographic
Video
Comment piece
Time
07:00
07:40
12:40
17:20
21:30
Notes
Low engagement and impressions
High engagement - due to using a number in the text?
Lots of retweets and shares
20 second Twitter clip watched but low click through
Lots of replies & National newspaper retweeted it
Type
G+ / T
Twitter
FB / T
Twitter
FB / T
7. Update Tips
As suggested by data - your
audience may be different
Twitter 100 Characters -- Headlines and
statistics. Shortened URLs. Several
posts a day.
Facebook 40 to 80 characters --
Questions / Quotes / Statistics. Not
what’s already in the link text. Once or
twice per day
G+ Headline Less than 60 characters
G+ Post 5 characters or 442 characters
9. Engage Back
● Like comments that show an opinion
on your post to show that you’re
reading and listening to people
● Reply when people ask questions
● Keep the conversation going and
build relationships slowly over time
● Retweet your colleagues from the
main account and retweet those
supporting and reporting on you