It's not so new anymore though no one can ignore the influence, social power, cultural homogeny, and economic restructuring of the most ubiquitous technologically communicative context to come along since print.

And that's why you're here, I hope, to explore, discuss, argue, apply, and discover why and how social media has evolved into a base paradigm for human communication.

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Social Media Campaign Rubric


Outcomes
4. Create, maintain and promote a Facebook account,
5. Create a social media “product,”
6. Execute basics of Facebook advertising,
7. Develop a social media campaign.

Activity
Create your social media campaign, a designated Facebook page designed to promote your communication objectives cross-promoted on other social media such as Twitter and Instagram.

Plan your approach and present the plan to the class. Develop your social media presence and promote your agenda via pages with specific content strategies and create demand through social media ads and integrating campaign approaches through other social media channels.

Collect baseline data from Facebook Insights. Analyze and evaluate it, interpreting user and interaction data in terms of demographics, page views, and media consumption, and discuss how the numbers reflect your attempts in reaching your campaign goals in a summative post on your blog at the end of the semester.

Point Value: 400

Rubric

1. Your campaign involves a Facebook page based on a theme and defined communication objectives - the type of business or community page you wish to develop and describes your social media presence, your venture's name and mission.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-17                  18-32                 33-44             45-50

2. Your campaign plan posted on your blog includes a minimum of three market personas, people-types you want to target for successful clicking.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-17                  18-32                 33-44             45-50

3. Your campaign plan posted on your blog explains your tactics; how you will reach your audience, including cross-promotion on other social media channels, and how you will make your page compelling.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-17                  18-32                 33-44             45-50


The next four items on the rubric will be applied at the end of the semester as your campaign matures and grows.


4. Your campaign plan posted on your blog shows an execution of your tactics, screen shots of status updates, media, polls, Facebook ad, anything you've done according to plan to encourage Likes and Shares.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-17                  18-32                 33-44             45-50

5. Your posted Facebook Insights data are analyzed in terms of Likes, Reach, Visits, Posts and People. Your analysis shows what worked, what didn't and why.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-29                  30-59                60-84             85-100

6. A posted summary is written regarding the campaign plan and how it increased traffic on your FB page and other channels used in cross-promotion, indicating trends in goals set for the campaign.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-17                  18-32                 33-44             45-50

7. Your post includes a self-evaluation of the execution of your campaign, what worked to increase impressions and what you would do differently.

Incubating           Hatching           Weaning           Flying 
   10-17                  18-32                 33-44             45-50



Recognizing Default Responses


During this semester you've been exposed to and written about various issues ranging from birth control to privacy from On The Media, and chances are there was something you heard that made you default to a primary certitude, a hidden assumption, or an ethnocentric position.

Since a big part of changing the way one thinks is recognizing certain automatic attitudinal responses like those listed above, I'm asking you to write about recognizing your own default responses within your own writing - assertions you've posted in your responses to the OTM assignment.

You may want to revisit the post on this blog, The Danger of Critical Thinking, to help you frame the concept of the automatic attitudinal response. Then, with that working knowledge, examine your own voice, your thoughts as posted in your OTM responses to become aware of these barriers to critical thought.

Post your findings on your blog, read your peers' postings and comment, create discussions about how a provisional perspective can help one become better informed, especially through the channels of social media.

  • The deadline for your post is March 21st. 
  • The deadline for your comments and discussions is March 28th.