This presentation was a general session for the 2012 UCDA Design Summit. Summary - For the best results: everything is connected to everything else. Social media is most effective when it is a part of an integrated brand strategy and tightly linked to other communication initiatives. And these days, Twitter and Facebook are not just the purview of social media strategists. More case study discussion will demonstrate how you incorporate social media channels into key communication projects. And, while you're at it, you might as well use social media for your own renewal and rejuvenation as you meet the challenges of new roles and responsibilities on your campus.
Changing Roles in Communications Departments (What's social media got to do with it?)
1. What’s social media got to do with it?
Changing Roles in
Communications
Departments
UCDA Design Summit 2012
Susan T. Evans | Senior Strategist | mStoner
2. Today’s Plan
1. Excellent results from social media
2. Changing communication roles
3. Renewal and rejuvenation
9. Process
(for Print + Web + Social)
✓ Research and discovery
✓ Crowdsource content
✓ Creative concept development
✓ Target audience testing
✓ Design, editorial & production
✓ Launch and integrate multiple channels
10. Crowdsource the copy.
“What is an object that means
William & Mary to you?”
“How would you describe William &
Mary in a Tweet or a Facebook status?”
22. What makes it work?
• Partnerships with other campus units
• Blending content from the .edu website
and the social media channels
• Spending time and resources to produce
great content (it always makes things
easier)
23. Try this:
• Determine purpose, relevance and
importance of each channel
• Develop flexible content that can be used
in multiple ways
• Crowdsource to get the talent and
authenticity of students (and faculty and
alumni and the rest of your community)
24. Look familiar?
•Specific goals
•More planning/less spontaneous
•Make a commitment and be consistent
•Institutional buy-in and support
•Multiple channels
•Multiple sources of content
•Sense of humor
•Planned evolution (track reactions/patterns)
•Monitor results
32. No one cares
about your
career more than
you do.
Gene Roche
33. What does it take?
• Adaptability
(being okay with uncertainty)
• Raise your hand
(taking a risk)
• Change
(again and again and again)
34. Somewhere, it’s out there.
• A List Apart (for people who make websites)
http://www.alistapart.com/
• eduStyle (inspiration for campus web designers)
http://www.edustyle.net/
• boagworld (for all those who design, develop & run
websites)
http://boagworld.com/
• LAYERS (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe)
http://layersmagazine.com/
35. Somewhere, it’s out there.
• Smashing Magazine
(quality content for the design community)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
• EDUniverse
(the network for intergalactic edu knowledge)
http://eduniverse.org/
• SEOmoz
(search engine marketing)
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/why-
search-engine-marketing-is-necessary