Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

20
SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEMOGRAPHICS: HITTING THE RIGHT MEDIA FOR YOUR AUDIENCE Presenter: Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services

description

Updated on 3/29/2012. With Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Bebo, GoodReads, and many more  the number of Social Media sites continues to grow exponentially. With a multitude of Social Media sites be developed daily, one size no longer fits all. Join Diana Silveira to sort through the tangled web of Social Media sites and learn how to use different social media outlets in order to target and to tailor messages to different audiences and for specific purposes.

Transcript of Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

Page 1: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEMOGRAPHICS: HITTING THE RIGHT MEDIA FOR YOUR AUDIENCEPresenter: Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services

Page 2: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience
Page 3: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

AGENDA

Breakdown of Social Media Demographics Recommendation of use of each General Social Media Success Tips

Page 4: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

AN OVERVIEW

Dubbed Gen C by Nielsen for being the most connected group)

Page 5: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

Microblogging:Your message in 150 characters

18-49 year old demographic Connecting known and new users

Page 6: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

TWITTER DEMOGRAPHICS

15% = household incomes of over $75,000. 18% = ages of 18 to 29 years old 14% =30 to 49 years old. 15% = college degree or higher. 13% of all online adults report that they have used Twitter

But….  The migration has been slow, but steady. A Pew survey last July found that 16 percent of young people, ages 12 to 17, said they used Twitter. Two years earlier, that percentage was just 8 percent.

http://pewresearch.org/topics/demography/ & http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/teens-on-twitter_n_1241109.html

Page 7: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

FACEBOOK

Most popular social media site 800 MILLION users All ages Your current active users

Page 8: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

GOOGLE+

18- 34 years old Student (20%) Male (70%) Higher income than Facebook 40 million users – only 17% active

Page 9: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

LINKEDIN

25-54 59% Male Industries:

High Tech, Finance, Medical

Job FunctionsSales, Administrative, Academics, Operations

http://slidesha.re/wb0why

Page 10: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

From September to December 2011, unique visitors up 429% and over 3.3.million people

> 11 million monthly visitors

80% of users are women 55% of these are aged

between 25 to 44.

Page 11: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

MEETUP

55% woman 35-44 College-Educated or higher

Page 12: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

20% under 17 Used more in Europe

than US

Female 18-24 highest users Followed by 25-54

Page 13: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

Skews younger

Page 14: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

QR CODES

Who Doesn’t Use: >1 in 5 students 21% of college students

Who does Use:• Male (61%)• 18-34 (54%)• Income over 100,000 (36%)

http://www.marketingvox.com/another-sign-qr-codes-dont-appeal-to-the-young-050150/

Page 15: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

IN A NUTSHELL… Twitter: New/Existing Users GenX, GenY and GenZ Facebook: All – existing library users. Google+: College Students MeetUp: GenX and Y professionals Bebo: Small network, but teens. LinkedIn: Professionals, Older Pinterest: Woman, GenX Tumblr: Young under 30 GoodReads: Your booklovers SMS: GenY and younger

Page 16: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

CUSTOMIZING YOUR MESSAGE Library booksale for new public computers starts

tomorrow. Pass it on! #library #freecomputers #tarponsprings #gaming

Booksale for new computers starts tomorrow. Computers are for you! And are available free anytime we are open.

Booksale for new computers starts tomorrow- these computers will help us provide computer classes, resume assistance and more.

Booksale for new computers starts tomorrow- these computers will have extra CPU and be awesome for gaming programs this Summer.

Page 17: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

FINDING OUT ABOUT YOUR USERS

http://www.plusdemographics.com/ (G+) Facebook Insights > Users

Page 18: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

SUCCESS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Have a purpose Use multiple networks Customize your message to the network Team not a lone soldier approach Humanize your message Respond to positive & negative publicly

Page 19: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

GOLDEN RULE

Create a Social Media Plan & Schedule

Page 20: Social Media and Demographics: Hitting the Right Media for Your audience

[email protected]

slideshare.net/dee987

delicious.com/dee987/demographics

Diana Silveira

www.learnsurge.comwww.novarelibrary.com

Visit us @ FLABooth 402