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Telling your Authentic Story
on Social Media
Kelly Bennett, Manager of Social Media and Marketing Strategy
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Why Do We Share Stories?
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How has Social Media Changed Storytelling?
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Why is Storytelling Important to Marketers?
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Trusting Reviews
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Trusting Friends and Families
• 92% of consumers believe recommendations from
friends and family over all forms of advertising. - Nielsen
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Trusting Friends and Families
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The Rise of User Generated Content
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Coca Cola - UGC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XokGFN86ljc
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Exercise 1: Instagram or Stock Photo?
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Instagram vs. Stock photo
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Commencement 2014
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Instagram vs. Stock photo
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Student studies outside of the new student center
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Instagram vs. Stock photo
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Nursing at Greentree
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Instagram vs. Stock photo
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Student and professor in engineering class.
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Instagram vs. Stock photo
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Miami’s campus in the fall.
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User Generated Content Case Study
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Homepage
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Instagram
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Facebook
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Twitter
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Viewbook
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Advertising
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Storify
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How are you using User Generated Content?
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How to find User-Generated Content
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• Follow a hashtag on Instagram, Storify, Tumblr
• Search for Instagram photos by location
• Follow accounts on Instagram and Twitter
• Turn on twitter notifications for other official accounts
• Comment, engage, show you’re active!!!
Exercise 2: Right Content, Right Audience
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Where your audiences are
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Where your audiences are
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Where your audiences are
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Comparing Platforms
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21.8K followers26.6K followers53.5K likes
Comparing Platforms
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53.5K likes
Facebook Content
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What content has worked for you?
Facebook Content: Alumni
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Evoke nostalgia
• Prom season – “Tag your prom date! Bonus points in you can comment
with your prom photo.
• Share info about clubs/teams successes.
Ask for input
• During seniors college search ask alumni to offer advice, how they picked
their college.
Poll the audience
• Favorite professor?
• Best class?
• Tastiest cafeteria item?
Facebook Content: Current Students
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Current events
• Share info about clubs/teams successes.
• Annual events (first day of class, graduation)
Photo recap of events
• Allow students to tag their friends in photos of big events
• Prom
• Musical
• Championships
• Spirit Week
Facebook Content: All Audiences
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Current events
• Rankings
• Clubs/sports teams successes.
• Alumni spotlights
• Improvements (new programs, construction)
• News (new principle)
Photos
• Great photos are social media gold.
Traditions
• Rival Games
• Students signing alma mater
• Teacher quirks
Twitter Content
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What content has worked for you?
Twitter Content: All Audiences
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• Create a school hashtag - follow and use with tweets.
• Share everything posted on Facebook page
• Retweet positive content
• Use as a customer service tool to answer questions
• Keep it visual
Instagram Content
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What content has worked for you?
Instagram Content: All (with a student focus)
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• Use and follow school hashtag
• Show “Day in the Life” photos
• Ask students to tag your account and use school hashtag.
• Grants you permission to use
• Lets you see photos of private accounts
• Re-share photos on your own account
• Student gets 10 seconds of fame
• Encourages others to share/tag
• Tells your story from the student perspective
• Share on other platforms
Snapchat 101
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Snapchat Stats
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77% of college students use Snapchat at least once a day- Mashable
Snapchat Stats
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How to use Snapchat
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Send directly to user Add to story
Why Miami is Using Snapchat
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How Miami is Using Snapchat
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How Miami is Using Snapchat
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It’s Where the Students Are
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Exercise 3: Running a Campaign
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What type of Campaigns have you run?
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• Donation
• Recruitment
• Engagement Increase
• Ticket sales for event
• Contest
Steps of a Social Media Campaign
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• Step 1 – Determine your goal.
• Step 2 – Know your audience.
• Step 3 – Market the campaign where the audience is.
• Step 4 – Use a hashtag or some way to track the campaign.
• Step 5 – Share user generated content along the way.
• Step 6 – Announce the completion/outcomes of the campaign.
• Step 7 – Track results and adjust for next time.
Social Media Tips and Tricks
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• Be visual!!!
• Share images separately on twitter & Instagram
• Share videos directly to twitter and Facebook
• Twitter now allows up to 30 seconds of video
• Uploading video directly to Facebook auto-plays it
• Get information out using flyers (images have no character limit)
• Schedule tweets with Hootsuite (free)
• Be relevant to current events/trends
• Note what content receives the most engagement.
Questions?
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