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#Social @ #Lesta
leicester.gov.uk/socialmedia
#Lesta: well, who are ya?
Kasabian
Attenborough brothers
Sue Townsend
Gary Lineker
John Merrick
Gok Wan
Joe Orton
Englebert
Humpberdinck
Showaddywaddy
And more…
Here’s us…
Twitter.com/leicester_news
Set up: July 2009
Followers: 11.9K and growing
Pros: great for real time
communications, breaking news and
quick information sharing
Cons: limited space, user numbers
are stagnating and there’s too much
noise
This too…
Facebook.com/
leicestercitycouncil
Set up: July 2011
Likes: 2.6K and growing
Pros: still biggest social
platform, wide functionality
Cons: clunky and it’s
We need our social to…
1. Promote Leicester and our role in
the city.
2. Support local democracy.
3. Make our council business easier
to understand.
4. Encourage more people to use
our website and online services.
5. Support efforts to increase our
revenues.
Show and tell time…
Good:
now integral part of our
mar/comms mix
core corporate profiles
and key services well
managed
business critical real time
communications channel
awareness/engagement
levels keep increasing
offers real time insight
recognition by key staff.
Bad:
wider council efforts (x65
plus!) still not joined up
“I-want-one-too-i-tis”
condition widespread
no real strategic direction
and objectives
quality varies greatly
across profiles
staff still don’t get social –
even those using it.
Stuff we’re doing…
In headline terms:
setting a strategic direction
implementing a tactical action
plan
doing more of what works
review what we’re doing –
pinpoint good/bad and why
benchmarking our social
efforts
refine our assets/tactics to
support core business and
corporate priorities.
Such as…
Focusing on:
Q+A sessions with Executive Team,
councillors and key officers
attending high value events for real-
time coverage
embedding digital/social as lead
channel for corporate campaign activity
promoting our corporate social
profiles harder
audit/review process to monitor
outputs of service areas
guidelines/health checks/workshops.
Get your back covered…
Find your rock ‘n roll star…
And work them. Nicely, of course…
Get those pix in there…
Make these fancy too…
Give them vids: like blowing things
up…
Sit back and enjoy the stats…
Sit back and enjoy the stats…
Get it out there…
Remember:
• Sign post everywhere
• Hash tags
• Great content promotes itself
• Sharing content works too
• Re-use evergreen content
• Listen to conversations
• Don’t be shy - jump in on trends
• Cross promote all your profiles.
Make every eyeball count…
Keep those bean counters happy...
We keep asking ourselves:
• Can we JUSTIFY using social media?
• Can we ADD value?
• Do we KNOW our objectives and goals?
• Can we EVALUATE our impact online and
offline?
• Can we SHOW return on investment (ROI)?
We LOVE Twitter Analytics…
Facebook insights aren’t bad, too...
Listen to those real-time
conversations...
People LOVE talking about us…
But sometimes you just can’t win…
And people DO share what we
post…
Go on – say hello…
Digital Media Team
Dave Doherty, Digital Media Manager
Ian Gallagher, Digital Media Officer
