Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook advertising your events, done the Natives way…

October 17, 2011 – 4:18 pm

Filton College: A Net Natives Client Case Study September/October 2011 Client Background Filton College provides courses in South Gloucestershire and Bristol for local, regional, national and international learners, educating approximately 12,000 students from ages 14 – adulthood. Needs of the Client Filton college had some very specific criteria for the demographic that they wanted to target.  The college wanted to target 16-24 year olds in their area who were NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) with the aim of… Read More »

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The Brilliant Facebook Website and Facebook Brand Strategy – University of Brighton Case Study

October 14, 2011 – 1:57 pm

  “Net Natives understand the need for universities to harness their presence on facebook and capture students and prospective students who assign themselves to community pages. They advised us on this and merged all of the disparate university identities that existed into one page bringing together a network of more than 5,000 ‘likes’ . When you’ve already seen what Facebook can do to unite your current and prospective students, you might wonder what else we could do for you. We… Read More »

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The Top 10 Ranking Colleges for Social Media

October 13, 2011 – 2:27 pm

Social media analysts Klout recently published a list of the Top 10 colleges ranked by their influence.  Klout originally just measured Twitter influence but can now incorporate Facebook Pages, YouTube and a variety of other platforms. We don’t know if they compared non US colleges or not to get these scores (as they are all American institutions), but these are an interesting starting point for any of you who are looking to build a bigger Twitter influence and would like… Read More »

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Timeline for College Pages and Similar Types of Brands

October 10, 2011 – 3:30 pm

(A Net Natives Speculation) By now you may well have heard of the new Facebook Timeline feature. It’s a super revamp of the classic profile and is much more content-rich, allowing you to navigate by year/month, area, and so on.  For the users, it’s undoubtedly going to add to the whole Facebook experience. At this stage – it is NOT known which features, if any, Facebook will be implementing. But nevertheless we are excited about the potential changes and benefits… Read More »

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What will happen to your Facebook Page/App on October 1st?

September 30, 2011 – 11:49 am

After the fundamental announcements at Facebook’s f8 conference, all owners of pages that have custom app on their Facebook pages received this timely reminder “Upgrade Your App to OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS by October 1st…all apps on Facebook need to support OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS to make the platform more secure.” This basically means that if your page’s apps don’t adhere to Facebook’s standard then they won’t be supported. In Facebook’s own words, they “will no longer work” It feels like the… Read More »

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Bribing for Facebook Likes THERE & THEN!

September 29, 2011 – 11:36 am

When I’m not busy writing about Social Media, one of the other main things I do is promote club and live music events in a local venue.  I’ve been doing this part-time for almost 10 years now and I still love it – though nowadays I’m more excited by the behind the scenes stuff than swanning around trying to look cool… honest! So yesterday I had to go to the University of Brighton Freshers Fair and represent my nights. If… Read More »

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Ticker on Facebook – a few points from us

September 21, 2011 – 6:00 pm

Twitter is on fire at the moment with lots of people trending with #newfacebook, and as usual it’s an entertaining read.  From my personal use of Facebook it’s a certainty that any change in the platform will be met with fierce resistance in the form of status updates, followed by the creation of pointless groups boldly demanding that Facebook be returned to it’s previous state. One of the biggest changes today is the addition of “Ticker” – a LIVE mini… Read More »

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Problems with Facebook’s SUBSCRIBE button – and their implications for Public Figures

September 15, 2011 – 5:14 pm

Facebook have begun rolling out a new (and quite major) feature to the standard personal users profile…  it is now possible to “Subscribe” to a users public updates, allowing people to see content shared by the user but without having to become friends.  Just click subscribe, and – hey presto – the stuff appears in your news feed as if they were one of your friends.  Now, I’ve read a number of posts about this, but people seem to be… Read More »

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South Thames College – Facebook Page & Advertising Case Study

May 26, 2011 – 1:59 pm

After attending Net Natives’ Free Social Media Workshop, South Thames College were amazed at the potential of using Facebook to recruit new students. They jumped straight in, using our Facebook Advertising Service and were overwhelmed with the results we produced. For their summer courses South Thames College received 760 responses from which, they had 140 course applications! Let’s see what South Thames have to say… “Net Natives put together a Facebook campaign for us that increased applications for the advertised… Read More »

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How to use Facebook Advertising to promote College Open Days

December 8, 2010 – 9:26 am

Your potential students regularly use on Facebook; placing the right advert next to the right student’s Facebook profile is perfect advertising platform to enroll students and promote your open days. Drop us an email: ben@netnatives.co.uk Give us a bell: 01273 734640 Natives provide a unique Facebook Advertising Service dedicated for Colleges’ Open Days, developed using our own Facebook advertising management tools. “The Net Natives’ Facebook service has proved to be the most cost effective, targeted advertising medium we could have… Read More »

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