Social Media Handbook

Social media are a great way to get your audience more involved in the message you are communicating, by offering a chance to support that message with "real time" interactions.  Those that we have opted to officially use at Skidmore include Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare, Formspring, Pinterest, Google+, and Flickr — plus our Skidmore Connect community for alumni (which runs on a platform called Encompass from iModules).

Human Resources has crafted an advice document to guide Skidmore employees in how to interact on social networks while representing Skidmore College, and how to be certain that when you are not representing Skidmore, you are able to make that clear in your profiles and postings.

This handbook, developed by the Office of Communications, is intended to offer you tools for creating a Skidmore-branded official social media outlet for your department, program or group.  It will also offer information about customizing privacy settings, using our Informz tools for HTML emails, and a great deal more.

If you have questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact Daniella Nordin, Online Community Manager.