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By Stephanie Hatch Leishman 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...

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Interview with Nicole Morell

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman March 9, 2015

Nicole Morell is the MIT Alumni Association’s social media community manager. She manages day-to-day social media and writes for the Slice of MIT blog. Nicole shares her insights into her favorite social network, as well as the challenges and successes she’s had on the job.  What is your favorite social network and...

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What Kind of Experience Does Your Content Provide?

By Scott Murray March 7, 2014

There’s more to meeting audience needs than providing the right information. Medill on Media Engagement (by Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism) organizes content creation around a core question: What kind of experience does your content provide? Through their study of media engagement, Medill scholars have...

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Where to Start with Facebook Insights

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman October 28, 2013

Last week I gave a presentation called Introduction to Facebook Insights. Insights can sometimes be overwhelming when you're first learning to use it, so I explained how to start in a few steps: Understand metrics terms. Learn what "Reach" and "Engaged" mean. Learn to tell the difference between Page metrics and Post...

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A Tour of the New Facebook Insights

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman July 26, 2013

Facebook is rolling out new Insights. The improvements are apparent in the new design and layout. Insights now includes a dashboard with the following tabs: Overview, Page, Posts, People. Overview In the overview, you can view how your page is doing in likes, general reach, and engagement. Under this, Insights shows...

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Don't send Facebook posts directly to Twitter

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman September 4, 2012

When it comes to automating posts, you might consider sending the post from the platform with the most limitations and automate from there. Otherwise, you run into trouble. For example, if you are sending posts from Facebook to Twitter automatically, posts will appear truncated on Twitter because Twitter's character...

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Use IFTTT for Automatic Content Archival

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman August 27, 2012

IFTTT ("if this then that") is an automation tool that allows you to make "recipes" consisting of triggers. Here's how it works. You register all your social (and other internet-based) accounts with IFTTT. Then you can make a recipe, such as "whenever I get tagged on Facebook, send me an email." You can use this tool...

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Direct Marketing and Nanotargeting

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman May 1, 2012

Today I noticed books at discount prices placed outside the MIT Press. One title caught my eye. It is Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age by Joseph Turow. There are some relevant learnings I am gaining from this book. It was written in 2006; to give you a sense of how old that is in social media...

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HootSuite: How to Automatically Send RSS Content to Social Media Accounts

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman April 26, 2012

When you're overwhelmed as a communicator, automation can be key. This post deals with taking the new content of an existing RSS feed and sending it automatically to social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Let's say, for example, that MIT News often writes articles about your department, and...

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Advertising: Facebook vs. LinkedIn

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman March 21, 2012

Update (7/17/14): Some of this information may be out of date. A great way to target people is to place ads on social networks where the most people can be found. Ads on LinkedIn and on Facebook can be successful when worded effectively, targeted correctly, and timed well. Here are a few comparisons of the two...

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