The document discusses how residential life and housing services can use social media platforms to engage students by understanding different social media tools, how to manage platforms to increase engagement, and examples of how various platforms can be used in this context. It also provides guidance on developing a social media strategy, choosing appropriate platforms, interacting on platforms, and connecting social media to other online presences.
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Understanding Social Media in a Residential Education and Housing Services Context
1. Understanding Social Media in a
Residential Education and Housing
Services Context
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
PAC-12 Housing Directors Conference
Presented by Manaf Mansure, UCLA
mmansure@orl.ucla.edu
2. • Develop an understanding of social media
platforms and new media communications
• Understanding how social media platforms
and application management can increase
engagement.
• Understanding uses of various platforms in
a residential life and housing context.
• Present guiding principles and suggestions
about the operation of social media.
3. Social Media: platforms for social interaction, using
highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques using
web-based technologies to transform and broadcast
dialogues for interaction and the production of original
content.
New Media Marketing: integrated and strategic dialogue
among individuals or groups by way of technology-
facilitated channels, such as social networks (e.g.,
Facebook); blogs; microblogs (e.g., Twitter); online
games; mobile devices; photo-, audio- and video-sharing
sites (e.g., Flickr, iTunes, YouTube); message boards;
websites and email. Source: Eloqua and Beech Marketing, 2011
4. Facebook:
• 2nd most popular site
• Search engines refer 5% of
visits
• 25 minutes in a typical visit
• 51 seconds per pageview
• 6.7% of open-domain links
• 18-44 audience demographic
• Education Level
Twitter
WordPress
YouTube
5. TRADITIONAL MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS
Brand in control Audience in control
One-way /delivering a message Two-way / part of conversation
Repeating the message Adapting the message
Focused on the brand Focused on the audience /
specialized value
Educating Involving/Influencing
Organization creates content User-created or co-created
content
Get info from us Get info and more from our
friends
6. Administrative Business
Development Model
Community Development and
Experiential Learning Model
7. Social Community Development Platform
Information Exchange and Social Blogging
Interactive Moving Image Management
Interactive Dynamic Image Display Management
Online Zine/Journal and Information Exchange
13. Profile vs. Page vs. Application Blog vs. Announcements
Creation, Management, and Regulations
Text Media
Live Chats
(Go-To-Meeting, SpreeChat)
New Media Databases and
Mainframes
15. Students
• Career Services tool for
Professional
Development
Department Staff
• Employees Profiles
• Professional
Development
Workshop
Alumni
• Program/Department
Alumni Groups
16. Visualize Your Total Social Media Strategy
Understand the Function of Each Platform
Interact Between Platforms
Connect Back to Your Static Applications (Web Platform)
29. • Time
• Care and Conscientious Attention
• Detail
• Personality
• Transparency
• Cross-Campus Linkages and Partnerships
If you're not going to update and
interact, don't do it!!
30. • When do we listen and when do we interact?
• Is it always best to have a presence on social media?
• How does your new media communication plan weave into
your overall operation?
• When is it appropriate to use these tools to gather secure
information (contracts for living, roommate matches, etc.)?
• How will you organize staffing and oversight for your social
media campaign?
• How will your strategy plan target specific populations?
• When do we act on questionable or declarative comments
observed on social media platforms?
• What institutional social media guidelines are you
following?