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Learn how to effectively engage with social media to build and maintain community, provide excellent customer service, and promote diversity. This session will cover strategies, best practices, and measurement tools.
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#HRChat: Engaging with Social Media Diane C. McDonald Executive Director of Marketing Marketing & Communications mcdonaldd@tamu.edu 979.845.4663 http://marcomm.tamu.edu 11/07/2013
Marketing • Marketing Strategy • Creative • Web • Social Media • Visual Media • TAMUtimes
#HRChat • Build & Maintain Community • Provide Customer Service • Educate • Promote Diversity
Build & Maintain Community Reach more people via social vs. traditional media. The Eagle – 22,000 Subscribers Twitter – Nearly 100,000 Followers Facebook – 430,000+ Fans
Educate/Professional Development #HigherEd #HigherEdJobs #HR #HRChat #SHRM #Diversity
Promote Diversity - Thoughts • Diversity of opinions/views is allowed. • Protected by First Amendment. • Can remove posts if violation of… • Aggie Code of Honor • University Policies • Terms of Each Platform
Measuring Results Texas A&M can take a naive kid from a poor family in a small town and make them ready to be a millionaire in Houston or Dallas or even NYC. It's not only what you know, but who you know. Great place to start networking. Wouldn't trade my time there for anything! • Cold Metrics • Likes • Shares/Retweets • # Views • Warm Metrics • Quality of Comments
Social Media Directory • http://marcomm.tamu.edu/toolkit/social/social-directory.html
Final Thoughts • It’s about engagement. • It takes commitment. • Better to do one platform right than several wrong.
Thank You Diane C. McDonald Executive Director of Marketing & Social Media Twitter - @DianeCMcDonald mcdonaldd@tamu.edu dianecmcdonald.com