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Kate Klingensmith

Social media for colleges and universities - Technimentis - 0 views

  • the College of William & Mary, created a Facebook Page for his alma mater.  In less than two and a half weeks, membership exceeded 1,700, roughly 30% of the current student body. 
  • I am dismayed that this is the effort of a former student rather than the actual administration of the university.
  • Once members are established, keeping them informed of changes, updates, and other messages is extremely simple.
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  • If you were to take a seat in any crowded lecture hall on campus, you’d spot at least five to ten students browsing Facebook on their notebook computers; being integrated on Facebook increases the chances that students will be browsing information you’d like them to see when they aren’t focusing on the topic at hand (certainly the lesser of two evils).
  • If data on an unofficial Facebook Page contradicted information on the official homepage of the university, confused students wouldn’t know what to believe.  Even scarier, prospective students, parents, and other groups who don’t know better could easily find themselves at the mercy of the third-party outpost.  What’s to keep a rival school or organization from creating a defamatory page, aimed to cause harm?
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      VERY good argument for Schools app
Kate Klingensmith

Top Four Colleges in Social Media - 0 views

  • they have a lot of content, but not a lot of engagement.A number of colleges can count their Facebook fans in the tens of thousands. But the one with The Single Highest level of engagement only has about 300 fan posts. How do colleges translate this interest and affiliation to action?
  • They decided to find a way to make these students feel more connected to SUNY.
  • Students were invited to join through a tiered invitation system: First build relationships with the students we want most; then open it up to the entire class. Two people were dedicated to act as hosts and update content. That was essential to the strategy: consistently delivering valuable content.
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  • Mayo Medical School
  • ound that Facebook groups were more effective than their traditional orientation efforts. So, they tried refocusing all of their orientation efforts there. They earned 100% participation by pairing the with right (exclusive) content with the right experience. And, it worked. Not only did they notice better teamwork and integration in incoming classes, they were also able to refocus staff time and cost savings on curriculum.
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    they have a lot of content, but not a lot of engagement. A number of colleges can count their Facebook fans in the tens of thousands. But the one with The Single Highest level of engagement only has about 300 fan posts. How do colleges translate this interest and affiliation to action?
Kate Klingensmith

Enterprise stuggles to harness Facebook, Twitter feedback - Facebook, marketing, social... - 0 views

  • Students like social networks because they can express their opinions, but [the universities] didn’t think they would appreciate them as an institution engaging and responding back to them on channel,
  • Sales and marketing technology group, RightNow, has published a report on ‘rules of engagement’ for enterprises looking to integrate social media utilities such as Facebook and Twitter into their operations.
  • “The overriding message I took away from it was: we can’t ignore it. We’re still not quite sure what to do with it, but the ability to understand what’s going on and put it in an actual format was seen as positive.”
Kate Klingensmith

Facebook: Fan Pages vs. Groups for HigherEd Offices | howardkang.com - 0 views

  • Users don’t need an account to access fan page information for events, photos, etc.
  • Visitor Statistics: any analytics are useful.
  • I believe we should be focusing 65% on the fan page, 25% on the group, and 5% on the profile page
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  • I won’t have to manually post the items in the Links section, but I can use RSS-Connect to take care of it for me. You can also create custom boxes with FBML and integrate applications or causes related to your office/organization. Facebook pages are a one-stop-shop for viewers;
  • I believe Pages are a great hub for recruitment and awareness, but not an end all (groups are 25% focus for our office). Groups are necessary in the sense that they give ground to form community for students on a smaller scale.
Kate Klingensmith

SquaredPeg » Blog Archive » How #2013 will help us yield better. - 0 views

  • 5 students who emailed/messaged me are now the Admins of the group, so they already feel like a part of the Butler community.  The more you can share this experience and feeling with others, the more you will yield.
Kate Klingensmith

Wired Campus: Facebook Campaign May Have Led UCLA Graduation Speaker to Pull ... - 0 views

  • The Los Angeles Times reported today that the scheduled speaker at the University of California at Los Angeles’s commencement next Friday — the actor James Franco — had backed out apparently because of a months-long campaign by hundreds of students against his selection that was carried out via the Facebook social-networking site.
Kate Klingensmith

Five Steps to Developing a Powerful Social Networking Strategy - 0 views

  • A 2008 UMass-Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research study states that colleges and universities are adopting social media tactics faster than Fortune 500 companies. More than 700 institutional Facebook pages were launched by December 2007 shortly after the site opened its doors to corporations and nonprofits.
  • the review of eduStyle’s Gallery of Social Sites reveals a strong similarity among Facebook school pages. They typically include the kinds of photography and images available from campus marketing sources, don’t necessarily make the best use of outside applications and other robust Facebook features, and sometimes have startlingly few friends.
  • To gain any benefit from the social web, institutional social networks need to build sustainable communities that grow and significantly expand their reach.
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  • Because of its relationship-building power, social networking could become a brave new tool to help achieve a number of significant goals for a higher ed institution, in particular: • Expanding admissions inquiry pools • Tracking prospective students as they move through the recruiting funnel • Improving yield and conversion rates • Bringing alumni back home and integrating them into recruiting and fundraising document.writeln(AAMB6); • Expanding potential donor pools, particularly for annual funds • Broadcasting your brand through “viral word of mouse” • Expanding the reach and constancy of institutional identity
  • A viable strategy starts by defining key audiences and assessing their social media readiness and levels of participation
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