This document discusses using social media strategically to meet marketing goals. It provides guidance on choosing social media platforms based on target audiences and goals. Metrics for measuring engagement are suggested, including numbers of followers, likes, shares and comments. Case studies demonstrate how organizations have used social media successfully to promote events, content and drive traffic. The importance of setting goals, tracking metrics and refining strategy over time is emphasized.
4. Question time
• Who is on...
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
YouTube
Flickr
Foursquare
Pinterest
Google +
Instagram
Tumbler
any blogging platform
5. Why?
To connect with audiences/customers?
Any specific segments or audience groups?
To market events?
To market content?
To drive traffic to your main web channels?
To keep an eye on competitors?
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7. Strategy: Issues
• Having a plan!
• Time
• Staff and resources
• Content generation
• Online ‘voice’
• Is it working? Is it worthwhile?
• Measurement!
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10. Goals
What are your marketing goals?
What are your key audience groups?
How do you measure engagement?
Are there any barriers to engagement?
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12. Is it working?
Set goals
Use the right platforms (FB, Twitter etc.)
to post a variety of content
Measure impact / response
Refine and improve. But...
What do you measure? And how?
13. What can we measure?
• Facebook Twitter
Page Likes Followers
Check-ins Following
Comments No. of tweets
Post Likes, Shares Retweets received
Facebook Insights @Mentions
(impressions, clicks Favourites
and more...)
YouTube More...
Views Website analytics
Comments Blog traffic
Subscribers Link clicks, bit.ly
No. of uploads Other platforms
YouTube analytics Klout?
14. Creating a Benchmark
We have data tracked back to October 2010
160 venues/companies
Using APIs to get open data from Facebook, Twitter and
YouTube
Global view --> Personal view
You just need to know what question you want to
answer!
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16. The Arches
Facebook Advertising
“Uh Huh Her” are an electro pop duo with a
cult lesbian following
Two highly targeted adverts, total spend
£110
Sales target of 500 tickets. Actual sales: 900
(sold out)
Box Office Report says a quarter of ticket
buyers cited social media as their reason for
purchase
Great for reaching niches!
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18. Scottish Poetry Library
on Twitter
Twitter or Facebook?
1,900 Likes, 74 posts per month vs...
11,000 Followers, 500 tweets per month
Personality and... Poetry!
Engagement:
Retweets
@mentions - conversations
Favourites
300+ new followers per month
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21. You Tube Example: Sadler’s Wells
Feeds into other
Sadler’s Wells
channels: site,
enews, Facebook, QR
codes in posters
Dance can be
difficult to describe
in words
Persuasion
source Sadler's Wells Digital Seminar 2011 with
Kingsley Jayasekera, Director of Communications and
Digital Strategy
http://youtu.be/auJKToP44oY
22. Flickr example: Edinburgh
Libraries
Heritage images
collection
Local quest picked up by
local media
3000 visits in one day
(compared to 200 on a
normal day)
http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2011/03/edinburgh
-libraries-get-help-with-their-old-photographs/
25. one of the 2012
commissions, a scene
from Peter Pan
first five book sculptures in 2011
Learn more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_book_sculptures
26. Final thoughts
You have to start
Look at yourself
somewhere
Take a critical view of your activities
Small teams need to maximise time and
make sure they’re doing the most expedient Set personal and specific goals
and effective activities
Measure twice, Right place, right time,
cut once right channel
Make strategic decisions on channels based
Use metrics and benchmarks Make changes
on your core mission and what will work best
in what you do - don’t be afraid to prune
for what you doMay require an out of
where there’s no return on time investment
working hours time shift (at least some times)
27. Questions?
AmbITion Scotland learning journeys
http://getambition.com/learning-journey/
AmbITion:TV - video on demand
http://getambition.com/category/video/
AmbITion How To... Guides
http://getambition.com/category/content/resource/
Culture Sparks Social Media Snapshot
http://www.culturesparks.co.uk/snapshot
Culture Sparks Social Media Data Decoded
http://www.culturesparks.co.uk/digital/social-media-data-decoded
28. Contact
Ashley Smith Hammond
Project Manager AmbITion Scotland
ashley@getambition.com
www.getambition.com
Albert Kawmi
Culture Sparks Associate
albert@culturesparks.co.uk
www.culturesparks.co.uk
29. Background reading
Digital Engagement Framework Workbook
Created by Sumo Design and Inspired by Coffee
http://www.digitalengagementframework.com/framework.html
Let’s Get Real
Culture/24 final report on their action research
project ‘How to Evaluate Success Online’
http://weareculture24.org.uk/projects/action-research/
Introduce self A.S.H. - project manager “AmbITion Scotland is a £1m digital development programme for 2012/3 specifically designed to support individuals and organisations working in the arts, culture and heritage sectors in Scotland. It helps organisations and individuals grow in their capability, capacity, creativity and confidence to make the most of the opportunities of digital technologies. Supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, it follows a previous 2 year £1m programme that ran in Scotland 2009-11” I work for Culture Sparks who in partnership with Rudman Consulting (you’ll meet Hannah Rudman later today our lead consultant) deliver the AmbITion Scotland programme. Culture Sparks are the intelligence and innovation partnership for the cultural sector. What does that mean? Creative organisations across Scotland work with us because we unlock innovation, encourage experimentation, promote collaboration and make knowledge about people as audiences, visitors, producers, participants and creators real.
Show of hands - raise your hand and keep it up [Worksheet]
Lets set some more context now. Handing over to my colleague Albert
[NEXT: Goals worksheet]
Mention website analytics
Data alone is useful but more powerful when used to assess specific activity – we can see trends, growth and highlight qualitative examples Show spreadsheet
Biggest nightclub in Scotland. Theatre, visual arts, pop/rock concerts and a variety of nightclub events.
Possibly explain Twitter mechanics
Time permitting! More discussion around what ‘works’ on Twitter
let’s audiences see and hear an example & lets artists describe the work in their own words email list is 180k people - metrics show ppl tend to click on video first SW has to convince one person & that person often has to convince another person, video sharing enables this more organically Since 2006 have doubled ticket sales March 2011 36,000 video views & ppl who don’t engage with traditional marketing (newspapers, leaflets) Dance videos do well - have had millions of views on a few specific videos - ex: History of Dance 170million views & Pilipino prisoners dancing to Gorrilaz 47million views
Edinburgh City Libraries hold a vast collection of archive material illustrating the city’s distant and recent past and every day their expert staff help members of the public to use the resources to explore their own personal history or to find out where their ancestors lived.Now the service is appealing for amateur sleuths to help them make the collection even better by publicising dozens of mystery photographs. The appeal has already generated widespread media coverage, in both the local press and online via Flickr.In addition, the quest was featured on STV’s The Hour programme yesterday, after which the appeal’s dedicated flickr page received more than 3,000 hits (compared to just under 200 the day before).
this last example isn’t focused on a single channel but on an example of how really exquisite content can drive its own path through all of them. The book sculptures were beautiful & captured the imagination of just about everyone who saw them. They have a mystery at the heart (no one knows who the sculptor is) and a generosity of spirit (the first 10 were freely given, hidden in locations around Edinburgh between March - Nov 2011 (this critically includes the festival season) - organisations included: SPL (x2), NLS, Edinburgh Filmhouse, Scottish Storytelling Centre, International book festival (x2), Edinburgh Central Library, National Museums, Writer’s Museum, Edinburgh Bookshop (dedicated to Ian Rankin) 2012 - five commissioned for book week planted at GSA, Burns Museum, Isle of Eriskay Politician Pub, JM Barrie birthplace, & Scottish Seabird Centre in N Berwick 2012 final gift to SPL
The story generated lots of press (Guardian series of stories, BBC) lots of photos, a national tour around Scotland and was posted, shared, tweeted etc. with an enthusiasm that carries on into 2013. The moral? Some content is magical (viral though that’s a foul word) and when you have something that’s wonderful and people love all you have to do is give them the opportunity to spread the word. From Wikipedia: The Scottish book sculptures are a group of book sculptures that were found in Scotland between 2011 and 2012. The sculptures are on topics mostly concerning Scottish literature and poetry, and are made out of old books by an anonymous female paper sculptor. The initial group of book sculptures was a group of ten elaborate sculptures that were left around various cultural locations in Edinburgh, Scotland, between March and November 2011, as gifts to the cultural institutions and people of the city.[1] The identity of the artist is unknown, although notes with some of the sculptures referred to the artist as 'she'. The sculptures were made from old books and were accompanied by gift labels which praised literacy and the love of words, and argued against library and other arts funding cuts. An eleventh sculpture was presented to author Ian Rankin, whose works featured prominently in many of the other sculptures. The ten Edinburgh sculptures were toured through Scotland in an exhibition in late 2012.[2] The sculptor was then commissioned to produce five more book sculptures to be hidden in secret locations around Scotland as part of Book Week Scotland, which commenced in November 2012. Despite the commission, the artist has maintained her anonymity. The sculptor also made another gift sculpture in December 2012, which she anonymously presented to the Scottish Poetry Library, already the previous recipient of two of her earlier works.
in this exercise try and keep the answers very factual