Swiss Higher Ed and New Media: A Snapshot

Initiative of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI Annex of the Consulate General.

Swiss Knowledge Network with outposts in Boston, Bangalore, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai and Singapore.

May 6, 2014

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Facebook | Likes

! EPFL is way ahead

! Consistent growth across the board

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USI campaigns on Facebook

! Constantly looking for ways to engage their community and put it on stage

! It looks spontaneous, but it is carefully orchestrated

! Make it as easy as possible for your audience to participate (e.g. distribute postcards with the moustache for #USIMovember, provide a camera)

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USI Moment Machine

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USI #HoppSwiss campaign

! Collaboration with influencers is key for USI:

! Get others on board and to participate and promote

! Save resources

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HSG Image Video: An Integrated Campaign

13,000+ views in one week! (17 comments)

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Prominent location on the HSG homepage

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Its own page on Facebook

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Behind the scenes

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Facebook contest

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Top 15 Departments on Facebook | Likes

No big changes in the last few months

17,948 15,117

9,697 8,674

8,311 4,032 3,884

3,079 2,547 2,532 2,358 2,348 2,300 2,270 2,186

International Relations and Security Network (ISN) USI Executive Master in Humanitarian Logistics and Management

USI EMBA Executive Master in Business Administration HSG Alumni

HSG Start ZHAW School of Management and Law

Master Landscape Architecture ETH Zurich, Prof. Girot AEHL - Alumni Network

USI Servizio Alloggi HEC Lausanne

University of St.Gallen Student Union SHSG Hochschule der Künste Bern/Haute école des arts de Berne

Universität St.Gallen - Unisport ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Landscape Architecture Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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Twitter | Followers

! Most followed are still EPFL, ETHZ, and UNIGE

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Twitter | Department & Sub School Followers

! @ISN_Zurich still leader, also on Facebook

! Generally: accounts with international outreach are top 4,539

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Twitter | Crowdsourcing

! ETH library asks their Twitter community for help

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Be more informal: Don’t replicate your website (but take people to it)

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Pictures! Big ones and good ones!

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Beautiful campus pictures are always winners

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Faces bring you 38% more likes

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Less text is more

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A clean layout with little text

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Give an exclusive peek

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Promote your institution’s expertise

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Put yourself out there (your campus)

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Another highlight we wanted to mention

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