Keep America Beautiful Social Media Part 3 Going mobile, saving time and exploring new platforms December 5, 2012 2:00pm eastern
Introduction Kelley Dennings Director of Recycling Initiatives Keep America Beautiful
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Keep America Beautiful Social Media Part 3 Going mobile, saving time and exploring new platforms POLL
Kelley Dennings Madeleine O Connor Barbara McConnell Jacqui Flaherty
Part 1 Kelley Dennings and Madeleine O Connor
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Part 2 Barbara McConnell
Putting Mobile Technology to Work for Solid Waste Management Outreach Keep America Beautiful "Social Media Series Mobile and other Technologies" December 5, 2012 Barbara McConnell
Today talk 1. What is mobile technology? 2. Why pay attention to it 3. What it means for solid waste outreach programs 4. Options for harnessing it or how to go mobile
Going mobile Smartphones and tablets Receive/send email Browse websites Download Apps play games listen to music search for info
A growth industry 5+ billion mobile device subscriptions (mobithinking) Compared to: 1.2 billion personal computers 1.7 billion credit card users 1.6 billion televisions 1.1 billion fixed landline phones
Mobile is the fastest growing industry ON EARTH (Google former CEO, Eric Schmid)
Smartphone Tipping point 50%+ of US cell phone users now have smartphones/tablets (Neilsen) from 37% last year 1.038 billion in use globally vs. 708 million a year earlier (Strategy Analytics)
1 st billion took 16 years to reach Next billion less than 3 years - by 2015 (Strategy Analytics)
Who s going mobile? 46% are 18-34 24% are 45-54 38.6 average age half are women (Ipsos)
What do people do with smartphones? 69% use daily to access internet (Google) 50% main method of searching web (Evolutionary Marketing) 62% prefer using mobile device (Google: Understanding Mobile User) News and information Videos & games Directions Facebook or Twitter Shop, pay bills, buy things Price comparisons QR codes Identify a piece of music And about 10 billion other things
What s it mean for us?
3 options for going mobile Municipal solid waste (MSW) programs need to GET MOBILE! 1. Optimize your website for mobile devices 2. Investigate open data initiative 3. Make program information available to residents through an App
1. Web optimization Technology moving fast Separate website for tablet/ smartphone users, but can optimize when building new Designed to fit on smaller screen Improves visitor s experience Standard websites hard-tonavigate and read on mobile devices reorganizes, condenses, reformats information on current website offers same functionality as website permits easier navigation by fingertips improves readability of text
Web optimization at work Separate sites -- update both CNN -- Standard web homepage CNN Mobile Webpage
2. Open data Stream data for public use e.g. in lines of open source code like this <link type="text/css" href="css/calendars.css?v=1.0.0" rel="stylesheet"> Intention increase access to government information encourage civic participation stimulate innovation in presenting information Public uses data to create niche-oriented programs or Apps
Open data at work No control when opened to public
3. Apps for solid waste Create own App, or subscribe to existing, customizable App residents download for free iphone android blackberry*
Create your own Commitment of time and money Control over content Ensures it meets wants/needs and is unique to municipality
Customizable App Share development cost, lowers overall costs In control Little time commitment done for you Available fast signing to launch 6 to 8 weeks Service provider responsible for technical upgrades; maintenance; information updates
Apps for solid waste E.g., my-waste Includes: Collection calendar Searchable data Reminders Report a Problem annual fees based on population ($900-$3,900 + 1 X set up fee)
Adjusting to mobile technology
Thank you! For more information: Barbara McConnell Email: Barbara.McConnell@recyclingcalendars.com Creighton Hooper Email: Chooper@recyclingcalendars.com Tel: 1.855.343.3363, ext. 112 Join us on Facebook: "my-waste" APP for smartphones
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Part 3 Jacqui Flaherty
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Tracking Performance On Facebook +
Facebook Use your Admin Panel
Insights Tab Your Insights tab will show you more information than you ever thought was available! We check our the Overview every week, so that we can see what posts people enjoy the most this helps us when we decide what to post in the future. We do not just post something there is a little research that goes behind what we do/post
Page Posts Date Post Reach Engaged Users Talking About This Virality
Knowing Our Audience
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Keep Akron Beautiful Blog
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Overview Over time, you learn what works and what doesn t work, and we tend to update our Facebook, Twitter and Blog on what is current. We know that our clientele loves photographs, on-the-go updates, AND recycling and gardening tips we tend to focus on that area! Social Media is important that is how you connect with the public now, so you need to focus on it in order to make a NAME for YOURSELF.
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