ed layt marketing manager 13 january 2010. social media objectives 1.to engage with social media and...
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Social media objectives
1. To engage with social media and mobile technology to enhance the institution’s reputation, student & staff experience and deliver efficiency savings
2. To work with colleagues across to institution to achieve far reaching engagement
3. To fully integrate social media & mobile marketing into all core campaigns
Advantages of Social Media
• Online, including social media has become the most influential source in helping consumers make purchasing decisions(Source: Weber Shandwick inline research)
• Be more productive – less time at the same old networking events being sold to!
• Get help• Research• Stay up-to-date• Connect/reconnect
LinkedIn – a practical guide
• Visibility• Profile• Connect-ability• Google search rank• Enhance SEO• Groups• Discussions, news, updates• Applications• Advertising
Complete profile
• Ensure your profile completeness gauge is at 100%
• Current position• At least two previous positions• Education• Profile summary• Profile photo• Specialties• At least three recommendations
• Headline (shows up in search results) – specific, think personal tagline, what’s in it for them
• Write everything for your audience
• Turn profile updates off while mass editing
Connect-ability
• Show all affiliations in your profile, current company, previous companies, education institutions, activities
• Add linkedin badge to email signature
• Import address book
• Mobile application “inPerson”
• 1st level connections you can contact directly• 2nd level through one friend – get introduced• 3rd level through a friend of a friend – get introduced through 2 people
Google search rank
• Make profile public• Give profile a custom url e.g. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/edlayt• Keywords• Include on staff profiles (….?)• Link with other social media
Enhance SEO
• Outbound links from profile to www.herts.ac.uk
• Outbound links from profile to blogs
Groups
• Create or join
• A you a thought leader?
• Do you have something valuable to add?
• Discover new connections – contact directly!
• Get informed
• Stay up-to-date with group digest emails
Is it working?
• Eyeballs
• Group activity
• Offline linking
• CTR’s
• On-site analytics for landing pages e.g. event registration