In 1982... Greetings from Brisbane In 2012

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Facebook: How? And Why? For the Public SectorDan SleeComms2point0

In 1982...

Greetings from Brisbane

In 2012...

Facebook: Why?

Social Media: Why?

Statistics...30 million on Facebook

20 million on Twitter

Source: Facebook February 2012

Source: Semiocast, January 2012

7.9 million on LinkedInSource: Umph, September 2012

10 million daily newspapersSource: Wikipedia, February 2012

“Many of those institutions are so mismatched to the task at hand that most of them face a choice, at best, between radical restructure and outright collapse.”

- Clay Shirky, New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute,

December 2011

“People might not go to their council website to read news but they’re happy to sign up for Facebook and Twitter feeds that bring the news to them.”

- Adrian Short, web developer

Facebook: Stats

Facebook: Why?

http://visual.ly/facebook-vs-television

Facebook: Why?

http://visual.ly/facebook-vs-television

Birmingham...633,940 in 16km

Birmingham...633,940 in 16km

Exeter83,520 in 16km

Birmingham...633,940 in 16km

Exeter83,520 in 16km

Rochdale25,960 in 16km

Facebook: How?

Facebook: How? pieces of strategy447

441Share the sweets

442 Who should use Facebook?

People should

Twitter is not a golden bullet (but it is a bullet)

• inform communicate, listen so people can report problems to test the temperature for feedback to show people what your area looks like to answer problems to tell people that you don’t just do waste collection for grit alerts for crisis comms to show people you are human for every day things road closures medical advice fire alerts safety messages tide warnings, health warnings, for Q&A sessions, for driving traffic for showing pictures for praise for engagement for telling people you carry out noise tests on cockerels at 6am for FOI requests for press releases for blogs for reminding people, for telling people useful things, for letting them know,

443

444 Use many Facebook pages

445 Don’t use 3rd party apps

446 Be connected

447 Go out onto Facebook

447 Go out onto Facebook

447 Go out onto Facebook

447 Go out onto Facebook

Facebook: How?5 fundamental rules of social media

1. Be Social

2. Be a Sharer

3. Be Connected

4. Be Timely

5. Be Informative

Be social

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Be a sharer

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Be connected

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Be timely

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445

445Be Social

445Be Social

Be a Sharer

445Be Social

Be a SharerBe Connected

445Be Social

Be a SharerBe Connected

Be Timely

445Be Social

Be a SharerBe Connected

Be TimelyBe Informative

How not to do it...

How not to do it...

Don’t be frightened to

innovate

@danslee

Thank you!

Daniel.slee1972@gmail.comwww.danslee.wordpress.comwww.comms2point0.co.ukTwitter: @danslee

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