Emily Griffith on Facebook and Twitter

Emily Griffith Opportunity School now has its own Facebook and Twitter accounts! Facebook and Twitter are both social media (definition at bottom) tools that allow for easy communication to our students and community. These pages will be linked to the homepage of our website.

Through these mediums we can:

• Market our programs: start and end dates, new programs
• Announce changes in programs/classes
• Market our services: deli, barbering, cosmetology, esthetician, tax service
• Announce graduations
• Send announcements and invitations for special events
• Link to free advice for job hunting
• Communicate snow days, vacations, holidays, and breaks

Support this form of communication by:

• Becoming a “fan” of Emily Griffith Opportunity School on Facebook or becoming a “follower” on Twitter
• Sending your ideas of what to post on Facebook/Twitter to Christine_Hill@dpsk12.org and/or Frank_Aguilar@dpsk12.org
• Commenting on our posts or posting your own
• Suggesting that supporters of Emily Griffith Opportunity School be a “fan” on Facebook and be a “follower” on Twitter

Definitions:
Facebook – a free social networking website where “users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region.” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook)

Twitter- a free social networking website “that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.

“Social media marketing can be defined as the intentional leveraging of social networking websites to increase brand awareness, drive traffic to your website and open up new channels of communication with potential clients and donors” (“Social Media Marketing for Non-Profits,” David Heitman Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM.)



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PR/Marketing Department
720-423-4766

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