Every school is on social media. Almost none of them have built anything like what MIT has.
Daniel sits down with Jenny Fowler, Director of Social Media Strategy at MIT and author of a book on organic social media, to break down the playbook behind growing the university’s following to more than 7 million people across platforms, entirely organic, in a category most brands would consider one of the hardest to win.
Jenny walks through her six M framework (mission, message, medium, management, metrics, monitoring) and why “medium,” picking the one platform you can actually dominate, is the piece most brands skip first. She also explains why she refuses to chase algorithm changes, staying the course on strategy even when the numbers dip, because reacting to every shift means the algorithm never actually learns your audience.
Plus, Jenny breaks down her “dream team” structure for a social department (a director, a manager, and specialist creators instead of platform experts), why social needs to sit at director or VP level to survive internal pressure, and how she stress tests every post for how it could get misread or trolled before it ever goes live.
If you’re a Marketer who wants a real playbook for building community instead of just a following, this is the episode for you.
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