Maryland Social Media

Social Media Monday (Vol. 5, No. 6)

March 9, 2015

Support Your Sister Agencies on Social!

@StateMaryland and @MDMEMA Nominated for a #GoldenPost

Please continue to push out the message to your followers to support both state accounts in their bid to win the first-ever Golden Post award for Best Use of Social Media for Citizen Engagement. You can only vote once and you must connect your vote to a social media account. Here is the link: http://conference.governmentsocialmedia.com/golden-post-awards/social-media-for-citizen-engagement/

Assateague State Park (@AssateagueSP):Finalist for Best State Park in the US by USA Today. Please encourage your followers to vote for this unique Maryland treasure!

Here is the message from the selection staff at the USA Today:

Congratulations! Assateague State Park – Md. is one of the nominees in our latest 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award contest! Our expert panel selected Assateague State Park – Md. as one of 20 contenders for the Best State Park category, which just launched. Our contest, which is being promoted by USA TODAY, gives voters four weeks to vote for the candidate of their choice at http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-state-park/. A person can vote once a day for the run of the contest.

Voting ends Monday, March 30th, 2015 at 11:59am EDT and the winners will be announced on 10Best on Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 at 11:59am EDT, then later on USA TODAY.
You can download a promotional graphic, if you’d like.

Twitter Image Tip

Have you noticed how images POP in your Twitter feed? It is simply because they take up more real estate. You will often find that messages with powerful visual content will garner a greater degree of engagement. Check out the two images above. You can see that while the suggested dimensions of a Twitter image is1024 px by 512 px, it is primarily the middle two-thirds of the image that appear in the feed. You must be mindful of this when shooting a photograph or posting an image.

Click here AND bookmark this Social Network Image and Video Size Guide.

Extend Your Reach By Sharing Your Campaign Information Here

Remember that Social Media Monday is the place where you are able to share important agency campaigns with your fellow state social media managers. Many of our communication teams are unable to carve off funds for social ad campaigns so our combined reach becomes a powerful tool to gain organic reach.

Send me the details of the campaign along with links and suggested posts as early as possible so that we can disperse the information early and often.