Secrets to a More Social Admissions Decision Day

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Mallory Wood, mStoner's director of marketing, and Bruce Floyd, University of Florida's social media specialist, present a brand new case study on the concept and execution of #UF17. The University of Florida took advantage of their admissions decision day celebrate their newest members of the Gator family. UF rallied around the hashtag #UF17 so their team could coordinate communications with the accepted students as the University sent out acceptance notifications online,. The results were dramatic — in roughly eight hours they saw 644 unique tweets from 966 individual Twitter contributors. These conversations totaled over 4.57 million timeline deliveries and reached 370,000 members of the Twitter community. In our webinar, Mallory and Bruce examine: Campaign strategy, planning, and goal-setting. Campaign management. Measuring results and beyond. mStoner: http:/www./mstoner.com Connect with other higher education professionals: http://www.EDUniverse.org

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SECRETS TO A MORE SOCIAL ADMISSIONS DECISION DAY

#socialworks

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YOUR PRESENTERS

Mallory WoodDirector of MarketingmStoner@Mallory Wood

Bruce FloydSocial Media SpecialistUniversity of Florida@BruceFloyd

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CAMPAIGN STRATEGYAND PLANNING

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GOAL 1

Increase engagement with accepted students.

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GOAL 2

Showcase accepted student’s pride and excitement around joining the University of Florida’s community.

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GOAL 3

Connect with and encourage campus units to submit information and contribute to the online conversation.

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GOAL 4

Challenge admissions staff to explore new and creative solutions to disseminating decision-letters and welcoming new students.

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GOAL 5

Create awareness about University of Florida’s social media accounts to the newly admitted students.

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MANAGING THE CAMPAIGN

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CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT

• Collect the conversations.

•Measure sentiment.

• Assign tweets if working in a team.

• Give unique and personal responses.

•Drink coffee (optional).

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RESULTS AND BEYOND

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#UF17 RESULTS(DURING 8 HOURS FOLLOWING RELEASE OF ONLINE DECISIONS)

• 966 unique Twitter contributors

• 644 original tweets

• 1,537 total tweets

• Reach = 370,355 unique users

• 4.57 million Twitter timeline deliveries

• 416 new Twitter followers

• 117 images posted to InstagramWednesday, March 13, 13

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New Followers

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450

600

1/25 - 1/26 2/1 - 2/2 2/8 - 2/9 2/15 - 2/16 2/22 - 2/23

121162

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Incoming Messages

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1,000

2,000

3,000

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Impressions (in thousands)

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1/25 - 1/26 2/1 - 2/2 2/8 - 2/9 2/15 - 2/16 2/22 - 2/23

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Sent Messages

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QUESTIONS?

Mallory WoodDirector of MarketingmStoner@MalloryWood

Bruce FloydSocial Media SpecialistUniversity of Florida@BruceFloyd

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