Powerpoint Presentation delivered by David Shipley, Senior Enterprise Web Strategist at the University of New Brunswick at the Atlantic Regional Canadian University Press Conference at Mount Allison University October 22, 2011. Document post here with permission.
3. About me
• Former editor of the
Baron
• Former provincial and
business reporter for
the Telegraph-Journal
• Web Strategist for the
University of New
Brunswick
• Used to drive armoured
vehicles. Seriously.
4.
5. What does a web
content strategist do?
• Connects audiences with the information
they are most interested in
• Engages audiences using a variety of
platforms - web, social networks, e-mail to
create, maintain or strengthen relationships
6. UNB.ca
• Most important communications platform
for the university for reaching prospective
students, alumni, donors and the general
public
• More than 100,000 monthly visitors
• Site down from 200,000 pages to
approximately 50,000
7. @UNB
• More than 3,200 Facebook fans (without
spending a single dime!)
• More than 2,000 Twitter followers
• Nearly 50,000 video views on YouTube
(most in the last year alone)
• Still figuring out how to leverage Flickr
more...
9. What is a strategy?
• It is a plan of action to achieve a specific
goal
10. What are some
potential goals?
• Boost readership
• Engage audiences for longer
• Find stories
• Find volunteers
• Promote great stories to the wider public
• Generate revenue
12. Metrics
• Ways to measure how successful your
tactics are and whether you’ve achieved the
goals of your strategy
13. Some ideas
Tactic Goal Metric(s)
Increased print
Facebook Fan
pick-up, increased
Page / Twitter Boost readership
pageviews on
Feed Posts
website
Use videos, Flickr
slideshows, Engage audiences Longer time on
Document more site
Sharing tools
14. More ideas
Tactic Goal Metric(s)
Use free tools to
More ideas at
monitoring social Find stories
story meetings
media
Use web traffic
Longer time on
monitoring to Engage audiences
site, more
determine which more
pageviews
stories resonate
15. Even more ideas!
Tactic Goal Metric(s)
Celebrate Recruit four or
Increase
successes, five new
volunteers
network volunteers
Sponsored live
tweeting of Generate Additional funds
sporting events, revenue received
ads in videos
16. Do’s
• Set up Facebook Fan Pages, Twitter
accounts, Flickr,YouTube/Vimeo
• Embed streams from social media into your
sites
• Use contests and giveaways to increase fan
base and engagement (and generate
revenue!)
• Experiment, experiment, experiment!
17. D’ohs
• Let accounts lapse, stagnate
• Just post links to your social media site and
don’t do anything else with them on your
site
• Go overboard with sponsorships or ads
• Get into arguments with PR folks