#UMBC50 Social Media Breakfast, 4/22 Join us for a primer on 50th anniversary communications

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 · 10 AM - 11 AM

The Commons : 329

Join us for coffee, pastries, and conversation on how we can work together to spread UMBC spirit heading into our 50th anniversary.

This event is for social media account managers across UMBC and will focus on using social media channels to engage our communities during the 50th anniversary year.

Dinah Winnick (Director of Communications) and Jenny O'Grady (Director of Marketing) will discuss:

  • 50th plans for on and off campus
  • Best practices for sharing stories of "Grit & Greatness" 
  • Event promotion and constituent outreach and stewardship
  • Brand and wordmark tips
  • Communications tools you can use
Please come with your questions and ideas! We're excited to see you there.


RSVP HERE

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Take a look and let me know if you have any questions!
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Every post should use the hashtags #MyTopCollege and #UMBC to be counted. 

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DOIT made some upgrades to Sites over the weekend that will give you more options for how content is delivered from myUMBC into your site. These updates will not alter anything you've created within your site previously, but you may notice the slight changes for certain future updates. Click on the FAQs for each section to learn more.

Managing myUMBC Content
In the previous version of Sites, you would go to the bottom of the "UMBC Settings" page to select the myUMBC group token you wanted to connect with for various types of content within your site. With the upgrade, you now can control which myUMBC group you're pulling from both from individual pages (at the lower right-hand side of the page in the new "UMBC Content" box) and from the Widgets section. In both cases, in addition to pulling in spotlights, news, and event feeds (as before), you can now also pull in media and discussions. You can also access feeds from multiple myUMBC groups now within your site (one per page). Visit this FAQ for more information.

Directory Listings
Also new with the upgrade is a bit more flexibility in how you can manage  staff directory listings. To make a page a staff directory page, you can go to the lower right-hand side of the edit box to find the "UMBC Content" box, and pull down "Staff Directory." Within that choice is the option of using an advanced syntax to vary the layout of your listings. Visit the FAQ for more information.

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I find it helpful to put reminders on my calendar once a month, just to be sure. While it's great to put evergreen material into your system, you don't want to be surprised suddenly by an expiring piece. 

- Jenny
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Click on the attachment to get some easy-to-use language that you can customize for your department's purposes. Following these guidelines will keep your support page easy for potential donors to use, and will streamline the online giving process so your department benefits as fast as possible.

And here are some nice examples of UMBC departments who have chosen to incorporate giving in a subtle way on their sites:

http://honors.umbc.edu/support/
http://gwst.umbc.edu/contribute/
http://llc.umbc.edu/home/support-the-llc-doctoral-program/

Questions about giving? Contact Dayna Carpenter, Director of Annual Giving, at dayna@umbc.edu.
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