3. What We’ll Cover…
• The Power of Social Media
• Your Tools: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
4. Where Are Parents Getting Their School
Information?
• According to Ipsos
North America’s
December 2010 poll:
• 57 percent go to
Facebook/Twitter
• 26 percent go to
District website
5. Facebook
1.1.15 billion active users; 50% log on daily
2.901 million monthly active users
3.3.2 billion likes/comments per day
4.50 million FB fan/business pages, including
thousands of school districts
5.300 million photos uploaded each day
6.125 billion friendships
6. Why Use Facebook?
1. Use to drive traffic back to website.
2. Post photos, videos, news, announcements.
3. Cross-post with school district. Provide parents with
multiple sources of district “news.”
4. It’s a two-way conversation.
Photo credit: The Telegraph
29. Group Pages
• Can be set up by any
individual & similar
to clubs in the real
world
• You 'join' Groups
• Admins can send
messages to up to
5,000 Group
members.
• Only open Groups are
searchable publicly
• *Groups can’t have a
personalized URL (a
major negative)
31. • Fan pages of a company,
person, product, non-
profit, organization
• Fans 'like' pages
• Admins can send
unlimited messages,
called ‘Updates’ that
appear on members’
Facebook walls
• Can host applications
that permit you to show
more content & interact
with users.
• Can personalize FB web
address eg:
www.facebook.com/swb
oces
Fan/Business Pages
34 million fans
43. Twitter
• Microblogging platform in 140
characters or less
• Launched 2006
• 106 million registered users; 65 million
tweets per day
• 750 tweets per second
• It’s all about immediacy/useful in crises
• Slower growth among parents than FB
44. Why Use Twitter?
• Drive traffic to your website/blog
• Provides you with contacts, who will often Retweet your
news
• Gives you information quickly about what is going on in
the PTA/Education world
• Teaches you new ideas, concepts, and skills
• Alerts you to hot topics (great news source)
• Allows you to share causes you support, content you want
others to know about, news that people should care
about.
• “Facebook-to-Twitter” allows you to connect both sites.
51. • More than 25 million people in the U.S. use
Pinterest
• 28.1% of Pinterest users have an annual
household income of at least $100,000
• The third most popular social network in the
U.S. in terms of traffic
• 68% of Pinterest users are women
• 50% of Pinterest users have children
• 1.36 million visitors a day
52. It’s Fun and Useful!
This is Huntington Seacliff Elementary School’s Pinterest page.
53. This is part of Huntington’s PTA “bulletin board
54. This is a “pin” on
Orange County Council
PTA’s Pinterest page.
You can “repin” items
to your page, “follow”
other bulletin boards,
choose certain pins as
favorites, or “pin” from
anywhere on the web.
55. Once you’ve created a Pinterest account, you will be prompted
to drag the “Pin It” button into your browser toolbar. You simply
click on “Pin It” whenever you see something on the web that
you would like on your page. Every visual item on Pinterest links
to the website from where it originated.
56. Mobile Apps
• By 2015, 85% of all adults in the
U.S. will have a smartphone.
• Mobile apps use “push
technology” to push out only the
news you want.
• Remember Hurricane Sandy?
When the power was out but
your mobile phone was working?
• Three companies Districts are
looking at in this region right
now: ParentLink, School
Messenger, K12-Alerts.
57.
58. Great Resources
• PTA Great Idea Bank:
http://www.ptagreatideabank.org/forum/topics/should-we-have-a-pta-
facebook
• Facebook in Education: https://www.facebook.com/education
• Facebook Family Safety Center: https://www.facebook.com/safety
• Socialbrite: http://www.socialbrite.org/pta/
• Facebook Page for Non-Profits: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofits
• Step by Step directions for setting up FB pages:
http://nextcommunications.blogspot.com/2010/08/facebook-for-
school-districts-set-up.html
• Socialbrite’s social media glossary: http://www.socialbrite.org/sharing-
center/glossary/
• National School Public Relations Association blog on social media:
http://socialschoolpr.wordpress.com/
----- Meeting Notes (10/29/11 23:28) ----- Ask for show of hands. How many have personal FB pages? Anyone on Twitter? How many have created Facebook fan pages for their PTA? Twitter for the PTA?
What we ’ ll cover. Connecting your social media is important as well, and although the learning curve is pretty widespread on this topic, I wanted to get into my recommendations and tips for connecting your social media efforts. If you are a beginner, definitely check out the wiki for beginner help.
There are 300,000 FB fan pages, at last count. If you ’ re not yet posting photos and videos to your fan pages, now ’ s the time. And don ’ t forget to keep your posts on FB conversational in tone, not too formal. And brief.
----- Meeting Notes (10/29/11 23:28) ----- Use it to drive traffic back, but also give them as much as you can right on the FB page so that they don't have to go back and forth all the time.
The National PTA. 23,463 fans at last count
As about whether Joplin increase dramatically since the tornado. White Plains has been successful when it comes to using social media. The reason? Their superintendent. If you don ’ t have support from the top on this, it ’ s going to be challenging to intro social media. But keep trying.
This is the superintendent for the state of Oklahoma and her FB fan page. And a group of supts in Alabama have their own site. I recently presented to the Lower Hudson Council of School Supts, and got three phone calls from supers the next day and two extra jobs creating social media for new districts.
Here is the NYS PTA Facebook page. Please note the number of fans of the page, up by 1,000 since this time last year. Also, please note the email sign-up page, which we’ll see next.
$9.95 per month for up to 600 email addresses.
Find out how much this costs.
Photo album from the 2011 state PTA conference. More than 200 photos posted here. Suggestion: Use a simple flip video camera and post videos.
Sample questions from the New York Times about the most recent Common Core tests. This is a big deal – why not weigh in without taking a particular stand?
----- Meeting Notes (10/29/11 23:28) ----- Click on Company, Organization, or Institution. Choose Education in the dropdown.
Important to be able to distinguish between types of FB pages. Group pages: only up to 5,000 members. You can’t have a personalized URL. This is a tattoo artistry group for people who love tattoos.
Is this page going to be easy for users to remember, or find? That might explain the 8 likes the page has so far. Group pages cannot get vanity URLs of their choice.
Fan pages. You have much more control over it and how it’s used. You can delete members you don’t want, you can hide posts and comments, and all members get your posts “fed” onto their personal pages.
1. Create "personal page” in your name or fictional name related to your district (founder, mascot, etc.) 2. link account to authentic email address, wait for FB to confirm. 3. go to: facebook.com/pages/create.php 4. When page (LEFT) comes up, 5. Choose Company, Organization or Institution 6. In dropdown, choose Education 7. Give your page a name, click checkbox, then Create Official PAGE.
Add your logo, your mission statement, your website address, if you have one. It helps to explain in the “About” section that this is the OFFICIAL page of the XYZ school PTA.
Here you can see that Highland Elementary School PTA has an Info tab. When you click on that you see some “boilerplate info.” They also have listed on the left their “favorite” pages – other PTAs, the Highland Districtl’s FB page, etc.
FB Insights is a handy tool that permits you to track how your FB fanpages are doing. You can find out how many likes you ’ ve received, comments, and if anyone unsubscribed to your site. There are many different ways of looking at the statistics, including by gender and age. On this page, I can even see how many impressions there were per post. For example, a slideshow I posted of the middle school graduations on June 24 received 723 impressions.
You have this in your handouts.
Razoo is a social fundraising tool that you can link to your Facebook page. You can create a fundraising cause and then place it on your website or Facebook page.
Note that they charge a 2.9 percent transaction fee
In the handouts.
I think there are more districts using twitter than Facebook. Effective for reaching media Journalists who get tips check twitter and FB first. Twello RT other people ’ s stuff.
The @ symbol is simply someone’s handle I’m @evelynmccormack. When people refer to me in a tweet, they will use the @ symbol. The hashtag is a pound sign in front of your topic; other people writing about the same topic will also use the #hashtag and that’s how conversations start and continue.