Week Ten & Eleven: Visions 5

These past two weeks I have been working on getting more likes to the page and posting about our events! Our goal is to reach 1,000 likes by the end of this semester.  We have reached over 900, as of today, and it is time to start posting polls, questions and discussion topics! For this week, I will post at least twice to create interaction on the page, as well as a followup for the bake sale! I am emailing the Film Studies social media site updates as well!

When Should You Post To Social Media?

This is a really great link that breaks down social media posting, by outlet, about what times are the best and the worst to post.  Previous research (which I cannot find at the moment) and personal experience have led me to believe that the best times to reach college students is early in the morning (because our generation is glued to our phones and we make checking social media a part of our morning routine) and early to late evening (because we are doing homework and social media is the most common way to distract us).  For those not in college, the best times are mid afternoon (phones come out during lunch breaks) and after normal work times or early evenings (right after work and before dinner time).

Week Nine: Visions 5

This week was very productive! We officially launched social media and call for entries.  We are slowly building, one two posts a week and then more and more.  Right now we are just on the barebones.  This wee I will try to start more discussion on Facebook and take some pictures during class, or as instagram will know it as "staff meetings."  During our weekly meeting, we mostly discussed those steps and more about logos, the theme and the website!

Week Eight: Visions 5

This week was very productive! We got a lot finished regarding the social media campaign and set schedules for our posts.  We hope to successfully carry out our goals.  I uploaded a draft of the next few weeks of posts (not including those that are requested) to the virtual class drive and I am eager to hear feedback so I can make this a successful year for social media!

Effective Social Media Use!

11 Unusual Social Media Tips!

Above linked is a really awesome article that I found that is going to help me out a lot this semester! The ideas presented are really great, some of which we have already thought of.

The tips and my thoughts on them:

1. Create custom-formatted tweets.
• I don't know how to do this, but I have seen it before. I will need to learn and get on that! 
2. Write longer posts.
• As a person who likes to read short things, I don't know how much I agree that this would help, but it is worth a shot! 
3. Build Facebook Groups.
• We have a page, but maybe a group too?
4. Insert embedded call to actions. 
• Already thought of this! Links will be posted on a lot of discussion postings! 
5. Market across many social platforms.
• Already have Instagram, Facebook and Twitter on our books! 
6. Facilitate meaningful connections. 
• This is something that we talked about really early on.  It is really important for us to build a community on our social media; our posts about discussions is really going to (hopefully) help with this. 
7. Crowdsource user-generated content. 
• hmmmm
8. Be a little weird. 
• Posting about Superhero things! 
9. Stand behind your actions. 
• Always! 
10. Put a positive spin on things. 
• Being negative doesn't really attract anyone. 
11. Provide a bit of structure. 
• Opening up conversations is going to help with this! 

Week Seven: Visions 5

This week was very productive! LOGO IS DONE! So we are making really good headway on our theme for the website and that in relation to our social media campaign.  We have some really good ideas for the campaign and we are just waiting on some class input to get those started.  We are going to be working with some really nerdy things (fitting with the superhero theme) on our social media sites: tag lines, catch phrases, sayings, etc.  My goal for this week is to continue working on drafting some posts, find some cool articles and get access to the accounts!

Festival Interviews: Most Interesting, Most Helpful

After reading through all of the festival interviews and making note of all of the interesting things (which, soooo many!) I think that one of the most helpful things came from Kevin's interview with the Screenwriting Competition.  I really appreciate that value of someone's work and sometimes, knowing who submitted something gets in the way of scoring (we are all human, we have human biases).  The process used here is a blind submission; this means that they don't have names or any identifying features of the submitters. I think that could be really useful, especially since we were talking about the personality blurbs in class.  Someone's work should stand for itself!