Nicole Callahan | Nov U.S. Department of Education 2012 Fall Conference Leveraging Social Media to Drive Awareness and Increase Engagement with Students Session 28
Use Listening to Create Better Content 2
What is Online Customer Listening? 3 Every good conversation starts with good listening
Getting Started… Set-up your search Be prepared Identify keywords 4
Identify Keywords KISS Consider Misspellings 5
Set-Up Your Search 6 Source: SocialMention.com
Set-up Your Search 7 Source: BoardReader.com
Set-up Your Search 8
And as the Boy Scouts Said… 9
You Can Listen Until You’re Blue in the Face 10
Why do it? 11 How we listen and what we listen to affects how we strategize and respond to our customers. Create Relevant Content Identify Key Customer Issues Listening To Our Customers
Determine seasonal/timely content Get feedback on our products and services Identify FAQs We use online customer listening to: Create Relevant Content 12
Identify Key Customer Issues 13 Source: Twitter.com – All tweets public
What have we been up to? Social Media isn’t new anymore (But it is evolving) Putting the customer first With that, drumroll please… 14
StudentAid.gov Homepage 15
Twitter 16
Facebook 17
Facebook 18
YouTube 19
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Storify 21
Storify 22 Source: Storify.com
Visual.ly 23
Infographics 24
Leverage FSA content for your own Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Accounts 25
As My Mother Always Said… Sharing is Caring 26
Beg, Borrow, & Steal (Really!) 27
Add Stream to Your Site Go to: (must be logged in) COPY & PASTE: Tweets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.paren tNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); 28
Embed our YouTube Videos In Your Site 29
Embed our Infographics In Your Site Go to: 30
StudentAid.gov/Resources 31
Increase Student Engagement 32
Visuals Visuals Visuals! 33
Mobile 34
Host “Office Hours” online 35 Source: Twitter.com – All tweets public
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Impromptu “Office Hours” 37 Source: Twitter.com – All tweets public
Measure the Effectiveness of your Efforts 38
How successful are you? The Big 6 Potential Reach Engagement Volume Amplification Rate Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Impact Stories 39
Impact Stories Source: Twitter.com – All tweets public
QUESTIONS? 41 Keep in touch:
Resources Federal Student Aid Social Media
Resources Resources on StudentAid.gov StudentAid.gov/resources StudentAid.gov/social Customer Listening Resources
Social Media Measurement Potential Reach Engagement Volume # of comments, likes, & shares # of mentions, replies, retweets, & favorites # of comments, shares, & thumbs up (# of posts) * (# of followers) (# of posts) * (# of fans) (# of posts) * (# of subscribers) Resources 44
Amplification Rate Engagement Rate Conversion Rate # of comments, likes, & shares per post # of mentions, replies, retweets, & favorites per tweet # of comments, shares, & thumbs up per post Retweets per tweet Shares per post Number of clicks on the links in your social media posts Share clicks per post Resources Social Media Measurement 45