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Social Media 101
1. Social Media 101
By Tim Nekritz
Associate Director of Public Affairs/Director of Web Communication
SUNY Oswego
2. What is social media?
• Interactive parts of the Internet where we
can communicate with a range of
audiences – for us prospective students,
current students, faculty, staff, alumni,
parents and friends of the college.
• Includes (but is not limited to) Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube, blogs, Formspring,
Foursquare and more.
3.
4. Why social media?
• “Third space”
• Customer service
• Interactive nature
• Media-rich
• Where they are
• But remember to bring them back
(hub and spoke)
10. 5 top tips
5. Goals before tools
4.Does it help us meet a goal?
5.What’s in it for us?
6.What’s in it for our users?
Avoid OSS
11. Crowd-sourced additions
• “Try to get someone who has a bit of a sense of humor (again not
always possible) as it makes the tone of your channels friendly and
more approachable.”
-- Annalisa Boccia, Queen’s University
• “Be Valued ... Many are getting into social to ‘have another way of
pushing our message’ or creating a new place for the same people
to ignore the same press releases.”
-- JP Rains, Laurentian University
• “Be Yourself. Social media operates in a transparent arena where
it’s easy to see who’s a jerk, who’s not telling the truth and who’s
making themselves out to be more than they are.”
-- Patrick Powers, Webster University
12. Types? Oh so many …
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Formspring
• Foursquare/Geosocial
• Photosocial
• Blogs
[We keep an online inventory]
20. Geosocial/location-based
• Services tied to your smartphone
• Fastest-growing part of social media
• Location-based services have enormous potential
to connect people to places, places to people,
and people to people in places.
• -- Tim Jones, North Carolina State University
25. Monitor and respond
• Social media is 24/7
• Basic customer service, just new way
• Most users just looking for an answer
• Would you ignore your email for days?
26. Our FB comment guidelines
• The discussion board is available for questions, often from
those entering or considering Oswego ... we hope to get you
answers in a timely manner as you ponder joining our
community. However, spam, blatantly commercial, obscene
and/or denigrating messages are not welcome in this space
and may be removed, as this page exists to serve a broader
community.
30. Social media conduct
• Zappo’s social media policy:
“Don’t do anything stupid”
• It’s pretty much common sense
31. Next steps
• What are your goals?
• Look at your time/resources
• Examine options/communities
• Content strategy: what to say
• Get social!
32. Questions?
• Also available at: tim.nekritz@oswego.edu
… or http://www.facebook.com/tim.nekritz
… or http://twitter.com/TimNekritz
Presentations http://www.slideshare.net/TimNekritz/
Our social media users’ guide:
http://www.oswego.edu/administration/public_affairs/
socialmediaguide.html