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Making the Grade in Social Media Marketing | Simple Score Sheet

Is there a simple way to tell how you’re doing in social media? How can you gauge what’s working and what needs to be fixed?

In preparing for a presentation, I came up with ways to rank five social media marketing and PR essential elements.

Plan

Platforms

Keywords

Images

Stories

Social Media Marketing Scoring Guide

Each counts for 20 points. Rate yourself based on these measurements.

 5 points10 points15 points20 points
Plansketchtestedworking itupdating based on results
Keywordshave an idearesearched and targetedtested with Google AdWordsyou own your keywords
Platformson several sitesfocusing on where community isengaging in communityhave your own community
Storiestell your owntell success storiescommunity tells value storiesshared sessions with community
Imagesprofile picturecollectionfrequent updatescommunity shares images

A= 90-100 B=89-80 C=79-70

How did you score? What do you need to work on? What would you add?

 

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  1. I’ve been researching how the gov will be using social media for transparency and possibly using the collective input for saving money, cutting programs, etc.

    I’m thinking about the stories aspect. Do you know of any good examples already up and running?

  2. I’ve been researching how the gov will be using social media for transparency and possibly using the collective input for saving money, cutting programs, etc.

    I’m thinking about the stories aspect. Do you know of any good examples already up and running?

  3. Thanks for your question, Annette. In checking the latest on twitter, I saw a few links that might interest you:
    http://search.twitter.com/search?q=social+media%2C+government

    If you see someone who is talking about a topic you’re interested in, you can find out how to contact them from the link in their twitter profile. Or, if you have a twitter account you can chat with them directly.

    Here’s a story about how one county government exec used twitter as a newsbreaker: http://tr.im/gJwe.

    The Obama administration is putting out a call for stories, as you can see here: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/share-your-experience

    Locally, our high school added an additional requirement for social studies so that our students will be better prepared to be tell their stories and serve as civic leaders.

  4. Thanks for your question, Annette. In checking the latest on twitter, I saw a few links that might interest you:
    http://search.twitter.com/search?q=social+media%2C+government

    If you see someone who is talking about a topic you’re interested in, you can find out how to contact them from the link in their twitter profile. Or, if you have a twitter account you can chat with them directly.

    Here’s a story about how one county government exec used twitter as a newsbreaker: http://tr.im/gJwe.

    The Obama administration is putting out a call for stories, as you can see here: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/share-your-experience

    Locally, our high school added an additional requirement for social studies so that our students will be better prepared to be tell their stories and serve as civic leaders.

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