- Answer the question “Why do your NREN needs social media”.
- Write down what you expect form social media
- What’s your audience
- How do you plan to talk to your audience (in comparison to other channel)
- What do you consider as a success?
- Are you and is your organisation prepared to communicate? Who are going te be communicating and are they prepared to make enough time to do that?
- Decide on which social media you are going to adapt and make a thorough plan. Start building your Social media strategy (check NREN strategies examples on wiki)
- Compere what you will get with extra work it will bring and make a final decision (evaluate ROI). Don’t forget that you will have to be active on your social media.
- Prepare a company Social media policy and get a management “buy in”. (check NREN policy examples on wiki)
- Start deploying your social media and engage
- General advices
- Like it and be liked
- Use web RSS feeds to keep your Social media profile up to date
- Answer all question as soon as possible
- Make people feel their opinion matters
- If you have nothing to say, don’t say it
- Use various tools to monitor all your social media presences in one place (e. g. on netwibes)
- Facebook
- Create company page profile (don’t use groups since they will be depreciated and don’t create a personal profile for your company since it’s against the FB rules)
- Add company data, try to “talk to people” don’t just use facts
- Add as many photos as possible
- Create stilled welcome page
- Create company events, invite people to events
- Photograph events and post photos from events on your profile
- Notify your friends about your page and hopefully they will like it (and others will follow them).
- Activate your work colleagues so they like and post on your profile and activate more users
- Don’t forget to use it for contests, events and new service launches
- Monitor insights and see what your public likes and activates on
- Advertise to friends of your followers
- Twitter
- Make sure everyone twitting for your company learn “twitter language”
- Create company Twitter profile and customize it. Make sure you state who stands behind company Twitter profile - name the person(s).
- Build twitter in your every day workflow
- Start following journalists and people of the same interest
- Reply to twits of people you would like to follow
- Whenever possible try to twit breaking news
- Use twitter for the channel to VIPs
- Use Twittdeck to manage multiple profiles on one place
Use Twittwall on conferences to engage users in conversations with presenters
- LinkedIn
- Create corporate page for the sake of brand awareness.
- Promote at least a few high end services
- Invest more time and effort if you are a regular seeker of employees
- Youtube
- Customize your channel
- Create playlists
- Use insights to understand your users
- Google+
- Not jet so popular but at least register your brand for future use.
- Wiki
- Make sure information about your NREN is up to date.
- Be aware of strict editorial policy and comply to it.
- Blogs
- Flikr
- General advices
- Measure successand report back to management
- Number of likes and followers.
- News dissemination through social media (if possible monitor your CMS for different entry points to your news articles).
- Use tools for accessing influence (e. g. klout, peerindex)
- With a help of reasonable effort the Social media will grow all by itself, so It’s a great PR resource for you.