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2015 Sessions

Molly Morris

A student is a student: breaking down communication silos

York University’s Division of Students is embarking on a new content-sharing model for communicating with students, harnessing the momentum of student engagement as students move from prospective to new to continuing studen...

Content, Engagement, Recruitment, Stories, Student Affairs, User-Generated Content, UX

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Andrew Whitson

Creating Diverse Storyworlds and why it works for HigherEd

What does it mean in today's digital age to tell a really diverse story? This session will look at how brands are developing characters that play across multiple mediums to bring a new level of depth to their stories....

Content, Stories, Strategy, User-Generated Content

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Eileen Watson

How To Utilize Social Media for an Institutional Giving Day

From December 2-4, the University of Guelph held 'The U of G 50 Challenge', where the goal was to raise $50, 000 in 50 hours, from 1964 donors. Our community came together to raise over $197,000 in 50 hours!...

Alumni, Campaign, Engagement, Facebook, Fundraising, Social Media, Strategy, Twitter, User-Generated Content

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Angi Roberts

Launch Your Own Social Media Ambassadors Program

Seven students for seven days. That’s the basis of our 100% volunteer based Social Media Ambassadors program at the University of Guelph....

Content, Process, Social Media, Strategy, Student Affairs, Training, User-Generated Content

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Bailey Parnell

#RoadToRyerson: How to Run a Kick-Ass, Yet Meaningful, Campaign

Social Media is but a communication tool we use to do what we've been doing for centuries: tell stories. And who tells student stories better than students themselves?...

Campaign, Social Media, Student Affairs, User-Generated Content

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Antoine Ste-Marie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Bloggers: Managing student content teams

Student blogs can be some of your most genuine and well received content. To capitalize on this recruitment and retention opportunity, I propose an analysis of best practices and lessons learned....

Blogging, Engagement, Process, Recruitment, Stories, Strategy, Student Affairs, User-Generated Content, Web, Workflow

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Nicolle Wahl, Stephen Martone

The Imitation Game—the war against unofficial social media accounts

What do you do when one of your students creates an unofficial "Class of" Facebook group, slaps your logo on it, and fills it with links to sites you'd rather not associate with your institution?...

Brand Identity, Collaboration, Facebook, Frameworks, Governance, Monitoring, Process, Student Affairs, User-Generated Content

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Jude Doble, Kirsty Budd

This doesn’t suck! UWaterloo students excited about their new portal

Has your institution perfected student communications? ... Neither have we, but we think we have a game changer....

Email, Governance, Innovation, Intranet, Redesign, Strategy, Student Affairs, Technology, Usability, User-Generated Content, UX, Web

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Adrian Liem

UBC.ca – A Shift in Paradigm

In 2014, the University of British Columbia released a new version of its top-level website, UBC.ca. The change marked the beginning of a fundamental shift in paradigm in how UBC approaches its main web channel, moving from a...

Brand Identity, Campaign, CMS, Collaboration, Content, Design, Process, Redesign, Stories, Testing, Tools, User-Generated Content, UX, Web, WordPress

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