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Is “Social Media” Really Worth It? Musings Following a Facebook Hack

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tl;dr What seems like a never-ending vortex of Hell following a Facebook hack makes me wonder if “social media” is really worth it. As much in terror as I was – and I was – I had the wherewithal to get the Arena comms/social media team together via text/phone.

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Social Media Measurement for Pragmatists

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I like studying results-based information from social media experts. But I’ve noticed a tendency among some to repeat behavior I saw early in my career in paid media: act as if tracking to the bottom line – especially where social media measurement is concerned – is pointless or impossible.

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Successful Social Media Disengagement for Teachers

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Here are seven tips on successful social media disengagement to help you stay happy both at work and home: 1. If using Facebook, know your school or district’s policy on social media engagement. For example, here is the NYC DOE social media policy. Image courtesy Starr Sackstein, used with permission.

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Why Buffer, HootSuite and Post Planner are the Holy Trinity of Managing Social Media

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When it comes to staying on top of social media, one of the big challenges we have is to find the social media tools that will help us achieve a happy medium between curating, listening, engaging and producing content. You can syndicate your blog posts to Facebook via your RSS feed. And this fits the bill.

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We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends

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This is the Hurricane Harvey Community Connections Facebook Group , created (as you can see from the screen grab) by volunteers distraught over what’s happening in Houston and areas hit hard by Harvey. One of them added me to this group, because the best way *I* could help was by sharing info. It’s the people.

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The Evolution of our Social Media Team

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The use of social media at our university is evolving. There were bloggers, tweeters, YouTube uploaders and Facebook aficionados long before our organization established a formal presence in these places. A few emails later, the University of Regina Social Media Users Group (URSMUG) was born.

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How the Regina Police Service Uses Social Media

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Just one of the many interesting factoids our group was given when the Regina Police Service (RPS) sent its social media officer, Kaeli Madill, to talk to us about all things Twitter and Facebook. RPS updates their social media sites every day – once in the morning and again in the afternoon.