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Social media based dissemination strategies for Erarmus project managers
1. Improving Internet strategies and maximizing the social media presence of LLP projects
Dissemination: Short training session
on social media based web strategies
Katerina Zourou, Ph.D
Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway
EACEA meeting for Erasmus project leaders, Brussels, January 23-24, 2014
2. The power of engagement!
• Campaign Emptyplate on
Instagram
• Campaign ≠ malnutrition
• For every picture of an empty
plate on Instagram followed by
#donatuplato a meal was
offered
• Using social networks for a
social cause: 3500 meals
offered by Caritas
#Donatuplato
Article and Video
(Example taken from Gary Shochat,’s presentation as Web2LLP keynote talk, Coventry, Nov. 2013)
3. What is the presentation about?
–Familiarize Erasmus project managers with the basics of a
digital valorisation strategy
–Share some tips on social media components of a
dissemination strategy
–Offer insights into commonly encountered problems
–Help in building sustainable and up-to-date dissemination
plans
4. Once upon a time..
In 2012: launch of the Web2LLP project (« Improving
web strategies and maximizing the social media
presence of LLP projects »)- a KA4 project.
Scope: upgrade skills of LLP project teams in building upto-date and sustainable dissemination strategies for
their project.
More than 450 beneficiaries (LLP project members)
attended courses.
Some 11k views on Slideshare
5. Extended desktop research and an online
survey: some findings
• Diversified training needs, ranging from novice to experienced users
• Need to focus on the appropriateness of tools in a given dissemination
strategy of an LLP project, beyond their mere use
• Need to see web and social media as means to create opportunities for
engagement with the public
• Need to consider viability of Internet and social media presence after
the life cycle of the LLP project
Zourou, K., Song, J. 2014, under publication. «How LLP projects use Internet and social media for communication purposes: a
needs analysis». INNOQUAL Journal.
Song, J. & Zourou, K. 2012. «How LLP projects use Internet and social media for communication purposes: a desktop
research». In C. Stracke (Ed.) The future of Learning Innovations and Learning quality: how do they fit together? Proceedings of
the LINQ conference, p. 114-123.
19. 3, 2, 1: action plan!
•Specify the target audience(s).
•Identify the main goals you want to achieve with Internet and
social media tools.
•Specify the task in relation to the audience and the goal.
•Identify the resources needed (human & material resources)
•Determine the timeline of the activity and the frequency of
investment in the project.
•Set the monitoring mechanisms upfront.
Target
audience
Teachers
Goal
Task
Resources
Human:
partner(s)
Gathering
feedback on a
recently
finished study
Enhance
conversation
on the
project’s
Facebook
Material:
channels
All partners
Facebook wall
(or partner A
and B)
Timeline and
frequency
2 months
starting from…
Two times a
week
Monitoring
mechanisms
Facebook
Insights
20. Plan your strategy
Social media is about engagement, this is not another
tool for posting news from your website
Christel Vacelet, EUN
It is important to be present in the social media but at
the same time social reputation is also an issue: don’t
get involved in a Facebook page if you won’t be able to
spread it around. There is little need for a page with just
10 likes
Erica Delucchi, MENON
21. Monitoring your social media activity
• Some social networks offer monitoring
facilities themselves: Facebook,
LinkedIn, Slideshare, Flickr
• Some free monitoring tools (or
dashboards) are very effective for an
LLP project: Tweetdeck and HootSuite
• Google Analytics seems to be #1
solution to monitor traffic of your
website and associated social networks
33. “Feel” your target group
From own channels to active engagement in existing channels
• Go and meet your target group: do not just wait for your audience to
come
• Engage with your target audience through existing social media
channels
• Identify niches where your audience “meets” online
• Choose the appropriate social media tool to fit the culture of
connectivity of your target group (enterprise, students, academia)
• Identify experts in your area active on social networks and
connect/engage/learn together with them
• Understand how “others” deal with it (peers, competitors, etc.)
35. 1. “We have no extra days to allocate to dissemination
through social media”
2. “We don’t have the skills to cope with a WS containing
social media”
3. “The project operates in many languages and we don’t
know how to cope with the multilingual aspect of social
media”
4. “Although we want to use social media, we don’t know
how to make users interested in our project”
36. Situation #1: Few human resources to deal
with dissemination through social networks
• Create an RSS feed
• Embed an AddThis
plugin/ share buttons in
your page
• Set up a slide repository
(Slideshare) or a picture
repository (Flickr)-both
offer free tools to
monitor activity
https://www.addthis.com/
=> Making project activity visible, sharable, transferable to other contexts
37. Situation #2: Lack of skills
Get your project partners to see the added value of
social media in their own context
41. Recordings of webinars
• Session 1: Setting up a web strategy and communication action plan
• Session 2: Selecting and choosing social media tools
• Session 3: Managing and measuring your social media presence
• Session 4: Sharing online content
• Session 5: Round-table with experienced managers and
troubleshooting
[link]
42. Video tutorials for the needs of LLP projects
Video tutorials in EN, FR and IT
on 10 topics (web analytics,
online curation tools, SNS, social
media editors, media sharing,
microblogging, etc.)
http://www.web2llp.eu/tutorials
