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Posted on Sep 17, 2013
What are ways to improve the unit pride in my unit with those on Social Media?
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Are there tools or methods to increase the visibility of the unit I am currently serving in to attract past, present and future assigned Soldiers?
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Esprit de Corps
Unit Pride
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Starting a Facebook page is a great idea! I have several that I a part of. I am even a part of a group for basic and one of the ships I am on. Try to work on doing a reunion. And if you need an event coordinator... let me know. LOL :)
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Sir, I am a huge fan of utilizing social media for the same reasons. I am in the National Guard and we cater to the community also and just our soldiers. I pretty much took on the role of a Social Media Officer my company. I created a page and often post content on it for members of the unit and their families. While we are training I ensure we try to collect any media from our training and post it on the site. I also post events in our units history. Now we have additional Company level Senior NCOs and officers utilizing this as a tool. The link below is to my company page. We had to add the states PAO as an admin to control any content deemed questionable to the representation of the NCNG.
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Check out Leader RAKKASAN FB page they (LTC Cloutier) are doing a great job and you can get a ton of ideas.
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LTC Purvis, what if there was a way on RallyPoint for members of your unit, while discussing things inside your unit page, could share appropriate types of info on Facebook, just by clicking a Share button? Do you have any ideas along these lines?
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LTC Purvis,
I've seen many base Facebook and Twitter pages spring up over the last year. Also seen quite a few unit pages as well. These are usually managed by base personnel and would be easy to reach out to for info. I'd start there and see if you can offer to put your unit in for some 'face time' with the social media lead or start your own page. RallyPoint is also a great tool for recruiting future soldiers. Through your connections and visible endorsements, you can start searching for candidates that would be a good fit for your unit. On the RP unit pages, you can also sort the past, present, and inbound members to your unit.
On a quick search I found the Fort Jackson base paper Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/RallyPoint?ref=hl#!/FortJacksonLeader
Try searching FB and twitter for some of the units inside the base. Might find some more hits. All the best!
Brandon
I've seen many base Facebook and Twitter pages spring up over the last year. Also seen quite a few unit pages as well. These are usually managed by base personnel and would be easy to reach out to for info. I'd start there and see if you can offer to put your unit in for some 'face time' with the social media lead or start your own page. RallyPoint is also a great tool for recruiting future soldiers. Through your connections and visible endorsements, you can start searching for candidates that would be a good fit for your unit. On the RP unit pages, you can also sort the past, present, and inbound members to your unit.
On a quick search I found the Fort Jackson base paper Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/RallyPoint?ref=hl#!/FortJacksonLeader
Try searching FB and twitter for some of the units inside the base. Might find some more hits. All the best!
Brandon
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Capt Charters,
Thanks, we have a battalion Family Readiness Group FB Page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-10-Family-Readiness-Group/ [login to see] 6927?ref=hl) that members of the FRG manage, and I'm aware of the ability to track past, present and future members of the battalion.
What I'm trying to do is continue to find ways to reach out to the current members of the unit so they share their pride across social media without becoming a "bad" site.
Any other ideas are welcome!
Jkp
Thanks, we have a battalion Family Readiness Group FB Page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-10-Family-Readiness-Group/ [login to see] 6927?ref=hl) that members of the FRG manage, and I'm aware of the ability to track past, present and future members of the battalion.
What I'm trying to do is continue to find ways to reach out to the current members of the unit so they share their pride across social media without becoming a "bad" site.
Any other ideas are welcome!
Jkp
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Sir,
Of course Facebook and Twitter are great platforms to spread messages, but photographs and videos really help attract an audience. Everyone will want to see what the unit is doing, or see themselves, or show off past events to friends and family.
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Not only start a Facebook page, but improve on the FB page by adding
FRG, EO, NCOER updates, Updates with the Army as a whole, Soldier & NCO of the Month pictures, if you type 716th MP Batt. you will be on our page... I am sure there is other Facebook pages out there to help as well.
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Also SHARP, on base housing stuff, phone number of help lines. The STAFF DUTY number just to name a few
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