Social Media Tips and Advice from Sree Sreenivasan
Let’s explore some Social Media tips and advice from Sree Sreenivasan that you can use for your business, organization, and/or personal use. First, his credentials: he’s a self-described tech evangelist/skeptic, Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Journalism School.
He’s been credited as:
- Poynter’s 35 social media influencers
- AdAge’s 25 media people to follow on Twitter
- SPJ’s 20 journalists to follow on Twitter
- OnlineColleges’ 50 most social media savvy profs
- Newsweek’s 20 most influential South Asians in America
- GQ India’s 30 digital Indians
- UNITY seed list of journalists of past century
- HuffPo’s 50 media people on Facebook Subscribe
Ok! Now onto the tips!
SREE’S SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS FORMULA: Make sure every one of your tweets, FB postings, etc, has at least one of these attributes (it you can do more, even better; if you can do seven or more in a single posting, let me know and I’ll tell the world!)…
- helpful
- useful
- informative
- relevant
- practical
- actionable
- timely
- generous
- credible
- brief
- entertaining
- fun
- occasionally funny
Harvard Social Media Academy Slideshow
SREE’S JUNE 2015 SLIDESHOW AT HARVARD SOCIAL MEDIA ACADEMY: bit.ly/sreeharvardsoc
CHANGE YOUR MEDIA DIET (sites you should be reading):
- Mashable: the best guide to the changing world of social media and something you must add to your media diet
[Sample post: 10 most extraordinary Twitter updates] - MuckRack: the best way to find and follow journalists – by beat, by news org * similar lists for certain topics: WanderListing (travel); CleanPlater (food); TechPicnic (tech) – see full list across top of any of them
- LifeHacker: lots of tips on using technology in smarter ways (ignore the more geeky items; I do)
- ReadWriteWeb: a good way to keep your pulse on the changing web landscape
- PaidContent.org: a good resource about the future of the media
- Four sites about the media itself: Romenesko | Nieman Lab | CJR | Richard Prince’s Journal-isms
VIDEO TALKS BY SREE: TEDxBroadway, TEDxNewYork, TEDxPoynter, TEDxNYED, TEDxColumbiaEngineering
And for a whole lot more on Social Media, visit Sree’s official site, www.sree.net