This document discusses social media content strategy and measurement. It provides tips for identifying your social media community, engaging strategically through listening and creating different types of content. It also discusses using various social media analytics and metrics to measure performance of owned, earned and paid social media and inform your strategy. The key aspects covered are identifying your community, creating a strategic posting plan, experimenting with different content types, and using metrics from different social platforms to analyze performance and inform future content decisions.
3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Over 300 Social Media Accounts
• Profiles represent refuges, regions, programs, etc
• Over 400,000 people in the national communities
8. Some Ways to Find
Your Community
Search Keywords
• Organization’s Name
• Key individuals
• Branding mistakes
• Program references
Referring Traffic
• Google Analytics
• Facebook insights
14. Understand Various Types of Content
and the Lifespan
Social
Blog Posts
News Articles
Features
Evergreen Content
Formal
Informal Right Now
3 years
from now
29. Build Your Own Community
Then include them to inspire content.
30. General Community Rules
• Use their interactions to inspire new content
• Protect the people on your page
• Correct misinformation
• Answer frequently asked
questions
31. Have Community Guidelines
• Be clear about
community
expectations
• Kill them with kindness
• Protect the people on
your page
40. Using Data to Inform Decisions
Do you have access to web analytics?
Do you regularly share stats?
41. Not So Sexy Things to Remember
• Identify your goals or
objectives
• Do your homework:
which tools, messages
and content work
best?
• Collect Information
can inform how to
CHANGE future
behavior Image: Tom Koerner, USFWS
42. With Measurement Reference Your
Previous Strategy
Image: Flickr / Iowa Red Bulls
• Identify audience
• Specific goals
• Capacity/Time
• Outreach plan
• Long-term plan
43. There Are a Lot of Metrics
source: Metricsman.wordpress.com
44. Measuring Types of Social Media
Owned
Your Branded Presences
Earned
Organic Shares and
Posts
Paid
Social Advertising
47. Performance by Post
What does your number of likes mean? How many followers
does it take to be a success? We all have these questions,
but the fact is- if done well measuring how people interact
with your organization online can greatly help you
determine where to allocate resources. In this session we’ll
talk about why we measure, some measurement best
practices and a few free and enterprise tools that don’t
break the bank.
50. What Can Facebook Insights
Really Inform?
• Top shareable content – what works, what
should you produce more of?
• What is your current active audience?
• Where are there growth opportunities?
But there’s still more qualitative information to
track:
63. A Good Measurement Plan…
Revisits Your Goals:
Improving Reputation
Combines Available
Measurement Tactics:
Social Analytics and
Web Analytics
Uses Qualitative and
Quantitative
Information:
Comments and
Increased Shares
64. General Geekiness
• Build off automated
reports whenever possible
• Export Data to play if
you’re comfy with
spreadsheets
• Follow blogs and reports
that discuss web and social
metrics and techniques
66. Analyze Don’t Regurgitate
• Pick metrics to measure ahead of time
• Evaluate over time
• Identify anomalies
• Tell a story with your data
• Track metrics that matter
67. Figure that if it puts you to sleep…
You’re not measuring anything.
68. Listen, Communicate, Create, Track
Time on Social Media
Listening
Communicating
Creating/Experimenting
Tracking
30%
30%
25%
15%
69. There Are a Lot of Metrics
source: Metricsman.wordpress.com
Informal does not mean fabricated or under-researched. It simply means you are giving more of a voice to your content than you would if it was a scientific paper.