Improving Internet strategies and maximizing the social media presence of LLP projects

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Steering a Safe Path through the social media minefield – Training and Support for

European Project Managers Sally Reynolds, ATiT, Belgium

• About the project • Usage of Social Media and

Internet in Lifelong Learning Projects

• Good practice from existing projects

• Project service offer• Issues and Recommendations

2 year KA2 Lifelong Learning Project - 2012-2013Partnership:•University Luxembourg•Web2Learn, Greece•P.A.U Education•Coventry University Enterprises, UK•Pixel, Italy•ATiT, Belgium

User Need analysis:•Initial research in 2010 - online questionnaire addressed to LLP project teams •Out of 289 LLP projects selected for funding in 2010 - focused on a random sample of 150.

Ju-Youn SONG University of Luxembourg & Katerina ZOUROU Web2Learn, Greece

CategorisationConole & Alevizou (2010)

• Social networking sites; (i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning)• Blogs• Microblogging tools; (i.e. Twitter)• Presentation repositories (i.e. Slideshare)• Video sharing tools; (i.e. YouTube, Vimeo)• Social bookmarking applications; (i.e. Diigo, del.ici.ous)• Web 2.0 picture repositories (i.e. Picasa, Flickr)• RSS feed (allowing users to receive messages on their

RSS aggregator, i.e. Google reader)

Categorisation

• shared web 2.0 public libraries (i.e. ObjectSpot, Mendeley)

Features enhancing social media presence • easy sharing and bookmarking services (e.g. the “Add

this” button) allowing users to share a static page through web 2.0 tools

• feed embedded in the website enabling content flow from social media applications (i.e. from Twitter, Flickr).

139 out of 150 projects

Website

47 projects out of 150Facebook 43

LinkedIn 8Ning 2

Social Networking Sites

23 projects with a Twitter account

http://www.scoop.it/t/iwbs-language-teaching

https://www.facebook.com/aplanetproject

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3960155&trk=vsrp_groups_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId

%3A16166931371210388490%2CVSRPtargetId%3A3960155%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary

https://twitter.com/languages_web2

http://www.rec-all.info/

Service ofer

Services:15 Video Showcases8 Video Tutorials3 handbookshelpdesk

http://www.web2llp.eu/home

Service ofer

Training:Face-to-facePilot course10 Course Italian •10 Course French •10 Course English

http://www.web2llp.eu/training/online

Issues and Recommendations

• Importance of a web strategy from the start – recognise that Social Media goes beyond ‘importing’ dissemination methods and messages into a new media, it’s a tool for dialogue with NEW methods and new messages.

Issues and Recommendations

• Importance of a web strategy• Project identity vs. topic or area of expertise

Issues and Recommendations

• Importance of a web strategy• Project identity vs topic or area of expertise• Responsibility and ownership with the

project team

Issues and Recommendations

• Importance of a web strategy• Project identity vs topic or area of expertise• Responsibility and ownership• Sustainability – own channels vs active

engagement in existing channels

Issues and Recommendations

• Importance of a web strategy• Project identity vs topic or area of expertise• Responsibility and ownership• Sustainability – own channels vs active

engagement in existing channels• Numbers and expectations – by partners, by

the EC

Issues and Recommendations

• Importance of a web strategy• Project identity vs topic or area of expertise• Responsibility and ownership• Sustainability – own channels vs active

engagement in existing channels• Numbers and expectations – by partners, by

the EC• Dealing with limited resources

For more information

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http://www.slideshare.net/Web2LLP

sally.reynolds@atit.be

Thank you!