A communications strategy outline for K-State Research and Extension staff to help them determine appropriate ways to deliver content through social media
1. Delivering Great Content Via
Social Media
Elaine Edwards
News Media and Marketing Leader
elainee@ksu.edu
2. Your goals…
• Information to clients when they need it
• Information to clients where they are
• Repurpose content: create once, share many
times
• Share good, research-based, trusted
information in a variety of forms
• Listen, ask questions, be a part of the online
conversation
20. Extension agents can:
• Tweet the KSRE article
• Share the media article
• Localize the information from the news
release and share via Facebook, Twitter, or
press release
21. • Share brochure on your Facebook page
• Tweet it
• Post it on partners’ pages
• Tag partners
• Tag sponsors, thank them for it!
• Tweet from event
• Post photos from event
• Write a news release, newsletter
follow-up article
• Share the news story through Social
Media
30. Want to blog?
• K-State Research and Extension supports
Wordpress blogs
• Experiment in the “Sandbox”
• Official branding
• Contact Joe Lear or Gamage Dissanayake to
start: learj@ksu.edu or gamage@ksu.edu
31. Other great options
• Pinterest: share images to drive people to
your web content
• Slideshare: share your powerpoints, pdfs
• Linked in: create groups for sharing content,
can be private
• Flickr: share photos
Online in their social networksIn their professional development networksPresent in their media preferencesWhere they may be physically: the bank, the co-op, the hospital, the grocery storeVideo (YouTube, TV)Audio (Podcast, live radio)Written Word (Newsletters, Newspapers, Fact Sheets)