AALS Conference presentation about building online communities for alumni and students.

1. Online Communities & Affinity Groups Building Productive Social Networks in a Law School Mike McCamon

2. Start by asking, “Why?”

5. Limitations of a social graph … it has to be worth my time.

6. Online Engagement Curve Engagement Visits Site Visits Frequently Subscribes to Feeds Subscribes to content (Email, Newsletters) Registers for Community Contributes Content Invites Friends Anonymous Authenticated Visitor Lifecycle Member-to-Member Volume

7. The Cautionary Tale ... 1999 2009

8. The internet generation The Class of 2010 has never not known an interconnected web-enabled life Snail Mail Telephony E-Mail Web Social Networks 1980 Accepted Wired Compuserve Research Wine tasting 1990 Tolerated Car phones AOL Gated Cigar bars 2000 Transactional Mobile Outlook Pre-Google AOL GeoCities 2010 Offensive Text, web and voice iPhone Pervasive Facebook

9. Do some digging

10. Gender Differences Source: http://blog.rapleaf.com/2007/11/13/statistics-on-googles-opensocial-platform-end-users-and-facebook-users 36% 36% 61% 41% 37% 39% 63% 63% 38% 59% 62% 60% Facebook MySpace LinkedIn Friendster Plaxo Hi5

11. Age Differences % of Users Age Source: http://blog.rapleaf.com/2007/11/13/statistics-on-googles-opensocial-platform-end-users-and-facebook-users LinkedIn

12. Donor Dilemma Source: iModules community research and others Donors Facebook Users

13. Network Metrics Alumni Facebook Social Ad Actual Facebook LinkedIn Impressions Clicks University 1 160,200 13,300 500+ 58,605 28 University 2 159,000 10,280 500+ 57,811 46 College 1 49,500 4,300 241 21,748 21 College 2 69,175 2,280 500+ 11,370 35 College 3 31,500 2,060 324 9,656 10

14. Boring E-mail .. uh, works May 2008 Activity Addresses Recipients Opens Clicks University 1 30,855 80,195 10,714 3,217 University 2 40,525 47,710 12,292 11,239 College 1 2,222 1,983 683 480 College 2 16,891 52,438 12,417 20,253 College 3 14,479 53,168 13,564 24,629

15. Test drive some ideas

16. Facebook Strategy Institutional Page Be present where they search Facebook Connect Become part of the conversation

17. Facebook Pages

18. Facebook Connect “ Inject activities into the conversation and allows you to “fish where the fish are.”

19. Linkedin Groups

20. Experiment continuously

21. Try everything... ... and track the click-back traffic Groups Channels Albums Followers

22. Facebook Social Ads

23. [email_address] Start by asking “Why?” Dig through the data Test drive Pages & Groups Experiment continuously