2. Outline
• Introduction • Facebook for Educators
• Stats and Trends – FB Ads
• Facebook Basics – FB Connect
– Getting Started – FB Share
– Building Your Profile – FB Public Profiles*
– Sharing Content • Best of the Best
– Building Contacts • Wrap Up
• Q&A
6. Facebook Stats
• General Growth
– More than 200 million active users
– More than 100 million users log on at least once
each day
– More than 2/3rds of users are outside of college
– The fastest growing demographic is 35+ years old
– About 70% of Facebook users are outside the US
From Facebook.com
7. Facebook Stats
• User Engagement
– Average user has 120 friends on the site
– More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on
Facebook each day (worldwide)
– More than 20 million users update their statuses
at least once each day
– More than 4 million users become fans of Pages
each day
From Facebook.com
29. Facebook Pages – Step 5
Frequently Update and Measure
• Embed pictures and photo gallery
• Create videos and upload them to Facebook
• Create and moderate interesting discussions
High High
Quality Frequency
39. Top 12 Tips and Best Practices
1. Consistent messaging, high frequency, high quality
2. Measure engagement and report success
3. Choose your landing page
4. Get a vanity URL
5. Segment your fans with Facebook lists
6. Leverage Facebook Apps – connect to blog, twitter, YouTube, etc.
7. Embed custom FBML and customize your ‘sub-navigation’
8. Create different content for fans versus non-fans
9. Cross promote your page on websites, email, blog, etc
10. Link to appropriate college landing pages
11. Create your protocol – who will update? Who will moderate? Etc.
12. Establish a publishing schedule
40. Facebook for Educators – Best of the Best
• Berkeley
• William and Mary
• Stanford
• UCLA
• University at Albany
• University of Michigan
• Michigan State