This document discusses how to effectively use social media for educational purposes while only spending 15 minutes per week. It acknowledges that many people feel social media requires too much time but provides strategies for minimizing time spent. The key recommendations are to start small with one platform and one weekly post, repurpose existing content across multiple platforms, and leverage tools to automate sharing. Using visual content, engaging followers, and experimenting with different formats are also suggested. The document argues an online presence can be achieved within 15 minutes per week through strategic planning and curating existing resources.
1. Glenn Muske
Rural and Agribusiness Enterprise Development Specialist
glenn.muske@ndsu.edu
July, 2016
Social Media in 15 Minutes/Week:
It’s Possible
NDSU Extension NW District Virtual Conference
2. Do These Headlines Scare You?
Web Users Spend 109 Minutes Per Day
On Social Media
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/270962/web-users-spend-109-minutes-per-day-on-social-medi.html
Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day
For The Average American User
http://www.marketingcharts.com/online/social-networking-eats-up-3-hours-per-day-for-the-average-american-user-26049/
5. Q1 – What online activity/ies do you currently
use in your educational programming?
1. Website
2. E-newsletter
3. Email
4. Texting
5. Send and receive visual media
6. Blogs
7. Social media
8. Videos/Podcasts
9. Other – Please list
6. Q2 – What online activity/ies would you like
to include in your educational work?
a) None
b) Website
c) E-newsletter
d) Email
e) Send and receive visual media
f) Blogs
g) Social media
h) Videos/Podcasts
i) Other – Please list
7. An Online Presence in 15 Minutes/Week
What holds people back?
Fear
Time
Support
9. An Online Presence in 15 Minutes/Week
1. Know who your audience is and where they can be found
2. Set goals – Pick your platform
3. Have a plan
4. Get a following
5. Make the most of your existing resources
10. Your Website isn’t an Option
And it doesn’t count as part of your 15 minutes
You only control 3 things – Your website, your email list, and your text list
- http://www.tourismcurrents.com/combine-email-social-media-marketing/
11.
12. Time
15 minutes a week – Not counting
the things you already do:
• Off-line - reading, writing,
listening, taking pictures and
videos, answering questions, etc.
• On-line – Online news; Using
social media for personal
interest, reading, posting; Email;
Creating newsletters; Etc.
13. Keeping Time Under Control
Get Started
• Have a plan
• Start slow and small
• 1 platform + website, 1 post per week
• Do it as a team if possible, don’t go it alone
• All posts need not (should not) be informational. Develop a personality and a
brand by showing your personal side
14. Your Major Options
• Vine
• Skype
• SnapChat
• Podcasts
• Flickr
• LinkedIn
• Periscope
• Slack
• Zoom
• Facebook Live
+ New ones daily
15. Keeping Time Under Control
Find Ideas for Posts
• Listen
• Use stories – Real world issues
• Use already answered questions
• Find key experts
• Engage with them
• Repost their material
• Make the most of existing resources
• 1 piece of content can be multiple posts (Hootsuite)
• Remember past work
• Use tech tools to put one post on multiple platforms
• Caution – Some studies have found that these do not rank as high
• Evergreen content
• Don’t need to write every post – CURATION can be as effective
• Have a method to capture material as you see it (i.e., Evernote)
16. Keeping Time Under Control
Success Tips
• Test and evaluate
• Use what works best – titles, topics, key words, pictures, video, length, style, etc.
• Renew and repost previous work:
• Your best content
• Non-performing content – Rewrite for better engagement
• Engage – Be social; Timely response
• Experiment
• Be visual
• Refresh and update
• Tweak – Don’t publish same item
17. Possibilities
Prep material for today’s
presentation
Blog post
Today’s presentation
Recorded
and shared
Website
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedInPPT slides
put on
Slideshare
With hashtag
becomes part of
paper.li newsletter
Info for my
NDSU Smallbiz
Update
Summary of your
responses or a look back
at what happened
Starts another
chain of
possibilities
Website
updates
Extension example
18. Sound easy?? Be careful!!
1. Must stay fresh
2. Overuse an item
3. No audience
- It’s SOCIAL media - Engage
19.
20. An Option: Paid Ads
Facebook
Google
Twitter
YouTube
LinkedIn
Instagram
Pinterest
Why??
8 times greater
click-through rate
(mobile is higher)
21. SUMMARY:
HOW TO DO IT ALL?
Make it a priority
Use available tools such as:
Google Alerts
Hootsuite
Twitter Search
Set aside a regular time
Get help, Do it as a team
23. Glenn Muske
Rural and Agribusiness Enterprise Development Specialist
glenn.muske@ndsu.edu
August, 2016
Social Media in 15 Minutes/Week
Comments?? Questions??