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The Power of Organic
November 2, 2018
There is so much information out there about paid social media. One might even feel pressured to pay to play. I thought I’d offer a voice in support of non-paid social media. At MIT we have a purely organic strategy, and I think it could work for you, too. Since I started working at MIT in November 2015, we’ve grown...
Read the Post#ThisIsMIT
September 6, 2017
It is well known that MIT students are academically exceptional and are high scholastic achievers. What is less known is how well-rounded, creative, and artistic they are. To showcase what students do outside of the classroom, I wanted to create a campaign to encourage them to produce videos for social sharing. This...
Read the PostHow We Use Slack
May 11, 2017
MIT has a very collaborative social media community centered around the Social Media Working Group (SMWG). The group is composed of staff who either directly manage a social media platform for an MIT department, lab or center, or manage a person who does. There are currently 150 members on the official list, but I...
Read the PostWhat You Need to Know About Social Media Analytics Tools
September 21, 2016
I spent the better part of the summer researching social media tools that could help meet our needs for more comparative and targeted analytics, and after looking into dozens of platforms and viewing numerous demos here’s what I’ve learned: The majority of social media analytics tools fall into one of three categories...
Read the Post#MIT02139
May 20, 2016
The Century in Cambridge celebration marked the 100th anniversary of MIT’s move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, and events were planned for most of the spring. We wanted to share our festivities with the rest of the world, so we created the hashtag #MIT02139 (MIT + the campus’s zip code) to support the celebration...
Read the PostBuilding a Following on Snapchat
April 28, 2016
Due to Snapchat not providing definitive total audience numbers, this is not a definitive case study. It’s more or less, me trying something with my channel and providing conclusions. What do I know for sure? As of May 2015, the Division of Student Life’s Snapchat account (MIT Student Life) amassed over 1000...
Read the PostPeriscope: What We've Learned So Far
, July 30, 2015
We recently launched MIT on Periscope, which is a new social network for live video streaming. We have done a few scopes (shorthand for a Periscope video), so let us share our learnings with those of you who are also just getting started. 1. Periscope is super new, so experimentation with the platform is expected. ...
Read the PostMIT Commencement 2015
July 28, 2015
I took what I learned from the past few years and applied the learnings to our social media efforts for this year's Commencement week. We received great engagement on MIT's social channels. The hashtag At MIT, we used the hashtag #MIT2015, which followed our usual pattern: MIT and the year of the graduating class. I...
Read the Post#alwaysMIT
June 30, 2015
In May, some members of MIT's Commencement committee wanted to gather memories from graduating seniors and asked me if we could use social media to do so. The original hashtag that was proposed was #MITmemories. It seemed like a straightforward choice, but “memory” was a word overused in alumni and graduation...
Read the PostApplying Youtility to Pinterest
April 16, 2015
A previous post by Stephanie Leishman and the overall discussion on Youtility inspired us at MIT Recreation to ask ourselves the question “How can our social media be more useful to our audience?” What better place to start answering this question than with Pinterest, a platform designed for exploration and...
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