Social Media For School Districts and Educators

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School DistrictsLeadership and Communications in a Networked World

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Meet…

•Your customer

•Your co-worker

•Your employee

•Your next boss….

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“I think that’s going

to break!”

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“The Community Owns Your Brand”

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901 million

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150 Million

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300 million updates/day

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3Billion Views/Day

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Social Media is Not a Video Game

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Who owns social media?

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It Belongs to Everyone

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“If you think you are a leader and no

one is following you...

You’re actually just going for a walk”

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Social Media Policy

•Protects Schools/District Brand

•Provides Rules of Engagement

•Protects Students

•Provides a Positive Framework for Engagement

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Where are you from?

Digital Natives

Digital Immigrants

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Wired

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Search

Students who had access to search outperformed other students in

standardized testing AND project based assignments.

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Learning•Byte / Bite Sized

•Collaborative (Networked Intelligence)

•JIT

•From Universal to Variable

•Social and Engaged

•Outside the firewall (public)

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Digital and Engaged

• Yammer• Wikis• Google Video / Audio• Social working

• Themes• Causes• Hired to Connect• Career Mentoring

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“A technical recruiter told me some tech companies seek guild leaders in Warcraft, Why? leadership in digital environment -- just like work” - Jeremiah Owyang@jowyang

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Listening

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Implementation1. Identify Your Goal

2. Identify Your Target Audience/Stakeholder Groups

3. Pick the Right Platforms

4. Map out Social Media Policy and Train Stakeholders

5. Implement Listening and Engagement Strategy

6. Know Your Stakeholder Values, Goals and Fears

7. Communicate Mixing Communications and Community

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Learn More:

• Slides: http://socialized.me/edu • Podcast: http://closingbigger.net• Twitter: http://twitter.com/shanegibson