As Twitter is most effective when it's a personal voice, how about
letting lots of people use Twitter - CranfieldSU, CranfieldWeb,
CranfieldNews and so on? And then all the schools - CranfieldHealth,
CranfieldDefence and so on?
As you say you want the people most on the button!
Dan
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Carvalho, Jason [BDO] wrote:
> Interesting reading.
> We're pretty much in the same situation as a lot of you here at
> Cranfield University. Our twitter page is currently populated by an
> RSS feed of our news and press releases, although I'd like to be able
> to move towards making it a little more human. The problem is
> establishing who is best to manage this. The issue is not neccesarily
> one of time, but more who is best placed on campus to be on the button
> when it comes to the latest interesting happenings. My guess is the
> press office, although I see some univesity twitter pages seem to be
> run by their students union teams?
>
> Jason
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> Jason Carvalho
> Online Marketing Manager
> Marketing Services
> Cranfield University
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Claire Gibbons
> *Sent:* 13 March 2009 15:23
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Universities on Twitter
>
> Hello all
>
> We’re still at the ‘messing about with it’ stage and the account
> is firmly placed within the Web Team for our amusement, if nothing
> else!
>
> Twitter certainly has the potential to assist our existing
> internal and external comms channels but (at the risk of being
> serious on a Friday afternoon) it needs to be maintained, owned
> and used appropriately (probably within Marketing and Comms and
> not the Web Team) and I’m not sure we have the capacity to
> maintain another comms channel just yet.
>
> C.
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> *From:* Managing institutional Web services
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Hoyle,
> Joseph N
> *Sent:* 13 March 2009 10:33
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> *Subject:* Universities on Twitter
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> More universities are beginning to use Twitter in order to extent
> their communication reach. I notice that some are just sending
> existing RSS feeds to their Twitter account, while others are
> mixing RSS and engagement by responding to Twitter replies.
>
> We have established a Twitter account for LSBU, but have not
> publicised it as we are experimenting with it at the moment. We'd
> like to add value by engaging and responding to replies.
>
> I have 2 questions for those institutions using Twitter:
>
> * Some of you appear *not* to be responding to replies. Are
> you just ignoring replies? There appears to be no setting to
> prevent users replying to posts?
> * If you are responding to replies, how time consuming is this
> activity, on average how many replies do you respond to per
> week?
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe Hoyle
> Web Manager
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