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12 Months. 12 Posts. 12 Words or Less.
You only have less than 8 seconds to capture your audience’s attention. Even if you write a spectacular masterpiece, fans will scroll past if it’s too long.
Inside CSU’s Most Popular Facebook Post
The numbers are staggering: 5.3M people reached. 1.6M views. 500,000+ engagements. Deconstructing CSU's most popular Facebook post. Ever.
Kevin’s Walk: By The Numbers
Last month, I wrote about analytics being the bloodstream of a social strategy, indicating the vitality of a brand. After posting Kevin's Walk, our brand burst into life with a pulse as lively as ever, and the post quickly became our most successful piece of content of all time.
Why It’s Not a Surprise We Made a Video Surprising Students with Puppies
Surprising students and professors with puppies might sound like a silly video idea, but it's actually very strategic. Here's why.
Social Analytics: The Cost Of Darkness
Analytics is a fluid process. It's all about going from one thing to the next, searching for patterns and other meaningful information gathered from the analysis of data.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
— Diogenes
#CSUSocial Intern Life: Education Beyond Graduation
Despite not knowing where I will be in a month, I do know what my hopes I have for myself.
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
— Roger Staubach
How To: Create A Facebook Live Poll Video
Last month, I wrote about Facebook Live and why it is thriving. Things like anticipation and the fear of missing...
FOMO & Dopamine: Why Facebook Live Is Thriving
We fear missing out. We crave suspense. For a Millennial generation that is highly skeptical of institutions, live content is a breath of fresh air, serving up unfiltered content that is stripped of any manipulation or deception. What is seen is what is true. Unscripted.
#CSUSocial Intern Life: Last Semester Limbo
As my last semester at CSU began, I was met with excitement and uncertainty. For the first time, in a...
New Year’s Resolutions for the Inert Introvert
Resolutions are about broken things. Since a resolution implies that something ought to be fixed, I'm writing to you instead of 2017. It's a list for me. Not 9-5 me. Not weekend me. Just me.
#CSUSocial Intern Life: Career Conversations
This Thanksgiving, I was bombarded with questions about my current internship by relatives and friends’ parents. Those questions were then...
7 Social Media Job Interview Questions
Until recently, I’d only ever been on one side of the social media job interview: the hot seat. The toe-tapping,...
Twitter: The 411 on the 140
Some intriguing new changes are coming to Twitter.
Pros & Cons of 360° Video
Brace yourselves: Virtual reality is coming. The future of digital media consumption is poised to become all about immersion, and...
5 Things We Learned from the Making of ‘Dear Ram’
Commencement is a special time of year for us, and we aim to treat it as such. #CSUSocial takes...
Instagram From Scratch
I knew the college needed Instagram, and I'd known it for a while. It's a great tool to connect with current and prospective students (think recruitment), and it's gotten to be an expected piece of any well-rounded social media strategy.
Dear Snapchat, We Need To Talk
It's not me, it's you. We can't keep going on and on like this forever...