About Alan

I'm the coordinator of Web and Social Media for the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University... I take the occasional photo here and there too. Enjoying the challenge of bringing social and semantic web to a college website while pruning the excess cruft.
social media lunch feb 2016

Thanks again for joining us. If you missed out or just miss hearing the sound of our voices we have recorded audio. Topics include:

  • Discussion of “The Fine Bros.” and repairing damage to a brand.
  • Facebook Live (live streaming video from within Facebook)
  • Taking the # or @ approach for encouraging engagement
  • How to get a “twitter town hall” with enough participation to feel valuable.

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Thanks again for joining us. If you missed out or just miss hearing the sound of our voices we have phone recorded audio of that. Topics include:

  • social media’s positive and negative effects on  students
  • resources on how to create positive digital identity for students
  • should we as communicators have a duty to educate students on use of social media – and some brainstorming about how that would look if.
  • drones (even though the drone singer couldn’t join us this time)

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Facebook’s edgerank (or whatever they actually call it) admittedly helps keep newfeeds from becoming cluttered with uninteresting posts. Facebook, ever so helpful, gives the option to “boost” a post for a price. (Multiple price options actually.) But should HigherEd social media marketers invest in doing so? Out of curiosity I tried and here are my takeaways.

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Thanks everyone who were able to make it this week. Below you’ll find our first fancy pants screen capture of a meeting. First 30 or so minutes is my presentation on what happened (and didn’t) when I paid to “boost” a Facebook post. Couple of other bits of discussion had to do with snapchat, how we pay for social media marketing buys (such as ‘boosting’ a post) and…

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