Campus toolkit for COVID-19 communication

The first few weeks of spring semester are behind us and we are so grateful for every passing day that our students are together on campus for in-person classes. It takes our entire campus community to make this happen and we are thankful for the many teams and individuals who are #KeepingHope here! Public Affairs …

Day of Giving Social Media Checklist

Six Weeks Out Do a quick checkup on your department’s social media accounts. Are they up to date? When is the last time you shared information? Are you following the Hope brand guidelines? Now is a good time to update your profiles to be ready for Day of Giving. Look for people you should be …

10 Steps to Building a Better Blog

Hope boasts over 40 blogs on the college’s blog network ranging in focus from faculty and administrative work to admissions features for prospective students. Public Affairs and Marketing helps maintain our network and serves as a campus resource to help our bloggers improve their site and their posts. We’re here to help you get better at blogging — …

Beyond campus mail: Promote your event on social media

Does your office or department frequently host events? Public Affairs and Marketing is happy to help you share your good news and get more people in your seats. The first place to start is the Hope Calendar when hosting an even for on-campus attendees. Gone are the days of simply sending a campus mail and calling it good. …

Take over our Snapchat account!

Public Affairs and Marketing is excited to bring you Takeover Tuesdays beginning in December! Takeover Tuesdays are an opportunity for student organizations and Hope offices to “take over” the official Hope College Snapchat story in order to give our followers behind-the-scenes access, while promoting your group’s event and mission to Hope’s Snapchat Followers. We estimate …

Follow the Hope story on Snapchat

The Hope College Snapchat account was started in fall 2015 as a way to engage our students in personalized story telling. Since the account started, Public Affairs and Marketing has been working to increase its number of followers by creating engaging stories with unique content that showcases different aspects of our campus community. Our audience is …

Social media workgroup meets monthly

A new staff and faculty workgroup started meeting monthly this spring to talk about social media. This informal group meets every third Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Plaza conference room. Please feel free to drop in and invite your friends and colleagues who might be interested. Typically there is no set agenda but rather informal conversation about social media …

Scholarship Day of Giving is back!

Thank you for being a social media champion at Hope College! Your influence on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram helps support the good work of everyone at Hope. Scholarship Day of Giving is back on April 19, and the planning team needs your help spreading the word. Most of the excitement and buzz will be shared …

Snapchat: For our students

They say you have to learn to crawl before you can learn to walk. When it comes to adopting a new institutional social media channel like Snapchat, I am pleased to be crawling at a snail’s pace. Snapchat gets the largest share of attention from 18-24 year olds, and I have to admit: that made the Public Affairs and Marketing team a little nervous. We tossed …