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What’s social media got to do with it?


Changing Roles in
Communications
Departments



              UCDA Design Summit 2012
     Susan T. Evans | Senior Strategist | mStoner
Today’s Plan

1. Excellent results from social media
2. Changing communication roles
3. Renewal and rejuvenation
Everything is
 connected to
everything else.
                Michael Stoner (2010)




  http://mstnr.me/9uemQS
A social media
  strategy is a
communication
    strategy.
                 Susan T. Evans (2010)


   http://bit.ly/qNONL2
#getresults
Social Media Campaign = Focused effort to
achieve goals using a variety of channels
appropriate to the results sought.
Oregon State University
Nazareth College
Print + Web + Social
(What’s one more?)
Process
 (for Print + Web + Social)

✓ Research and discovery
✓ Crowdsource content
✓ Creative concept development
✓ Target audience testing
✓ Design, editorial & production
✓ Launch and integrate multiple channels
Crowdsource the copy.

“What is an object that means
William & Mary to you?”

“How would you describe William &
Mary in a Tweet or a Facebook status?”
Crowdsource the photos.
Crowdsource post-launch.
Integrate multiple channels.

Please, connect the dots for your audience.

     Integrate. Again, I say, integrate!
Case Study:
William & Mary Ampersandbox
Said two alumni...
What makes it work?

• Partnerships with other campus units
• Blending content from the .edu website
  and the social media channels
• Spending time and resources to produce
  great content (it always makes things
  easier)
Try this:

• Determine purpose, relevance and
  importance of each channel
• Develop flexible content that can be used
  in multiple ways
• Crowdsource to get the talent and
  authenticity of students (and faculty and
  alumni and the rest of your community)
Look familiar?
•Specific goals
•More planning/less spontaneous
•Make a commitment and be consistent
•Institutional buy-in and support
•Multiple channels
•Multiple sources of content
•Sense of humor
•Planned evolution (track reactions/patterns)
•Monitor results
#thebasics
It’s the
conversation,
   stupid.
  Keep up your end.
Beware of trolls.
    Don’t respond.
I was once paid
to write Tweets for
     a squirrel.

   Make it fun and on message.
It’s like telling
your kids about
       sex.
 Answer the question that is asked.
Good news!

You built a
following.
Follow a strategy.
#getinthegame
No one cares
   about your
career more than
     you do.
           Gene Roche
What does it take?

• Adaptability
 (being okay with uncertainty)

• Raise your hand
 (taking a risk)

• Change
 (again and again and again)
Somewhere, it’s out there.
• A List Apart (for people who make websites)
  http://www.alistapart.com/

• eduStyle (inspiration for campus web designers)
  http://www.edustyle.net/

• boagworld (for all those who design, develop & run
  websites)
  http://boagworld.com/

• LAYERS (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe)
  http://layersmagazine.com/
Somewhere, it’s out there.
• Smashing Magazine
 (quality content for the design community)
 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

• EDUniverse
 (the network for intergalactic edu knowledge)
 http://eduniverse.org/

• SEOmoz
 (search engine marketing)
 http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/why-
 search-engine-marketing-is-necessary
My favorite professional
development tool...
My favorite professional
development tool...
You on the Interwebs.
Looking to self-promote?
Questions?
  #crowdsource
Thanks.
 http://clients.mstoner.com/UCDA2012/socialmedia/

 Susan T. Evans
 Senior Strategist
 susan.evans@mstoner.com
 @susantevans
 office: 757.565.1726
 mobile: 757.903.1120

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Changing Roles in Communications Departments (What's social media got to do with it?)