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HEH 13: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

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How do we social? What channels do we all use personally and what do our universities use? How do we keep up on the current social trends and use social in a way that is befitting to an institution of higher education?

  • Social
    • Snapchat
      • Is your school on it? How do they use it?
      • My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens”
      • The conversation is important and it’s not canned pretty pictures.
      • You have to be able to speak the language of the particular network you are using.
      • Twitter
        • GVSU uses hashtags
        • Iowa Admissions uses hashtags for visitors and awards prizes
        • Iowa Libraries uses scavenger hunts
        • Instagram
          • Iowa Libraries uses “book facing” to put over your own face.
          • What do we all use?
            • Reddit
            • What else?
              • Flipbook, RSS Readers – how to ingest media
              • Slack
                • For work and for social
                • UALR has integrations with calendars and Jira
                • GVSU uses an integrated bug tracking and issue tracking system
                • Facebook
                  • GVSU is very PR-related in page
                  • UALR tragedy or closings or big news gets the most exposure
                  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ele_dj3ud38
                  • Iowa Admissions uses groups to create a community for incoming students and doesn’t push stuff regularly to that group, it’s a place for them.
                  • Tumblr
                    • Iowa Libraries uses it for quick blogging with a low bar to entry. Special collections posts cool things. (lots of animated gifs!)

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