Social Media: Building & Discovering New Communities

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A social media presentation for Professor Jennifer Follis' Journalism 200 students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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SOCIAL MEDIA

BUILDING & DISCOVERING NEW COMMUNITIES

#UIUCJOUR

LIVE TWEET

TWITTER

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:

WHY?

WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA?

WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA (CONT.)

Extension of real life relationships

WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA?

Build Relationships:• With Your Community

• With your classmates• With your friends• With your family• With local community• With celebrities

WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA (CONT.)

Discover New Communities / Ideas

WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA (CONT.)

An opportunity to be helpful

HOW?

HOW TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS ON TWITTER

SOCIAL MEDIA GOLDEN RULE

Tweet others the way

You want to be tweeted

HOW TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS ON TWITTER

1. Identify needs

2. Provides solutions to needs

HOW TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS ON TWITTER

Create Conversation:

Listen // Ask Questions // Respond // Add something meaningful

LISTENING IS KEY

WHAT?

WHAT DO YOU TWEET ABOUT?

THE PRACTICAL

SOCIAL MEDIA IN ACTION

LISTENING

WHAT DO YOU TWEET ABOUT

GOOD WAYS TO LISTEN

Follow the right people• Community Leaders• Industry Leaders• University leaders

COMMUNITY LEADERS • @chambanamoms

• @chambanalaura

• @CHCEDC

• @CUMTD

• @colaburbana

• @cityofurbana

• @champarks

• @smcchambana

• @smilepolitely

What about industry leaders?

GOOD WAYS TO LISTEN

Use + Follow the Right HashtagsCommunity• #chambana• #UIUC• #UrbanaLove

My Industry• #socEnt• #STEMtoSTEAM

JOURNALISM HASHTAGS• #journchat

• #wjchat

• #mybxb

• #digitaljournalism

• #newmedia

• #digitalmedia

GOOD WAYS TO LISTEN

Create Twitter Lists • Industry Leaders (Journalism, Design,

Social Media, etc)• Friends (Location-based, Family, etc)• Topics (Sports, TV, Celebrities, etc)

RESPONDING

WHAT DO YOU TWEET ABOUT // CONVERSATIONS

HOW TO RESPOND WELL• Have conversations with others

• Begin your conversations and Reply with “@”

• Reply to others who mention you as soon as you can (within 24 hours)

• Retweet what’s relevant to your community or business by selecting a tweet and clicking “Retweet”

• Turn your notifications on – phone or email so you know when people interact with you

RETWEETS

CONTEXT BEFORE CONTENT

CREATING TWEETS

THE ANATOMY OF A TWEET

WHAT DO YOU TWEET ABOUT?

Be A Leader

1) Be a hyperlocal community leader

2) Be an industry thought leader

3) Be active in your community and industry

HYPERLOCAL

"SOCIAL MEDIA IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN LOCAL FLAVOR TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES." #ATMW @CHAMBANALAURA

TIPS FOR WELL-COMPOSED TWEETS

• Mention your information source (where you found the link, image, etc.)

• Use hashtags that give information about your tweet and promote your brand (i.e. #journalism #socialmedia)

• Make shorter tweets – aim for 120 characters or less to increase the likelihood of retweets

• When mentioning a twitter username at the beginning of a tweet use a period (.) in front of the username. (eg “.@carlcatedral is speaking at #UIUCJOURN)

BE A LEADER THROUGH SERVING

WHAT DO YOU TWEET ABOUT

CASE STUDIES

SOCIAL MEDIA IN ACTION

RESOURCES

RESOURCES AND LINKSLive Tweets from #UIUCJOURN via storify: http://storify.com/carlcatedral/uiucjour-live-tweets

#UIUCJOURN Twitter List: https://twitter.com/carlcatedral/lists/uiucjour

Tweetdeck: http://www.tweetdeck.com/

More info on Twitter Lists: http://mashable.com/2013/05/31/new-twitter-lists/#_

http://mashable.com/2009/11/02/twitter-lists-guide/

Favoriting Tweets: http://socialmediatoday.com/adam-barrell/1444991/2-big-reason-why-you-should-be-favouriting-tweets

SOCIAL MEDIA CLUB CHAMBANA:HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/SMCCHAMBANA

CONTACT

www.carlcatedral.com

carl@catedralconsulting.com

THANK YOU