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Tag: Snapchat

  • Insta[gram]-acceptance

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    Jena Richter Landers

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    You may recall media coverage in past years of prospective students receiving notification of their acceptance to UW-Green Bay via Snapchat. This year, to shift with technology innovations, staff from Admissions will be notifying accepted students of all four campuses of their acceptance via the UW-Green Bay Instagram. Students will begin receiving notice of admission for…

  • Richter Landers says ‘Snap’ streak may be over

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay social media coordinator Jena Richter Landers was a key source in a recent social media blog. “Snapchat was a large part of UW-Green Bay’s social media strategy, and while it continues to be used, the fact that it doesn’t offer archived analytics has increasingly become an issue,” reported Jena Richter Landers. “After seeing…

  • News of UW-Green Bay Snapchat still piquing media interest

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    Editorial Student

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    University acceptance notifications that UW-Green Bay offers through the Snapchat app is still grabbing media attention. This time the story was picked up by the website Education Dive and was located in their higher education section. Read the full story here.

  • UW-Green Bay Snapchat gets media mention, again

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    Sue Bodilly

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    There’s a small mention in this story about UW-Green Bay generating media attention for providing offers of admission on Snapchat. The story is about colleges across the country using big data to target potential students. The Morning Star has the story.  

  • Snapchat gaining media momentum (again)

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay is in the news again for engaging prospects with social media app, Snapchat. This time The Washington Times picked up the story written by USA Today’s Network’s Samantha Hernandez, recently.

  • News of Snapchat success is making its way through media

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    Sue Bodilly

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    In the cover story of today’s Green Bay Press-Gazette is UW-Green Bay’s success with Snapchat, a mobile app and social forum that is popular among teens and young adults. UW-Green Bay uses the app to tell prospective students they have been accepted, and most recently, posted a highly successful Snap video tour of UW-Green Bay.…

  • Snapchat Tour garners impressive results

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    Jena Richter Landers

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHg6z3xHfYQ&feature=emb_title UW-Green Bay student tour guides Ben Berndt, Elizabeth Howard and Dani LaPorte took friends of the “uwgreenbay” Snapchat account on a tour of campus via “Snapchat story” Wednesday, July 5. The Snapchat story, viewable in the app for 24 hours, included photos, video clips and text. The students worked with Jena Richter Landers (Marketing…

  • More snap: UW-Green Bay hosts successful Snapchat Q & A Day

    More snap: UW-Green Bay hosts successful Snapchat Q & A Day

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Working as a team in one-hour shifts Jena Richter Landers of Marketing and University Communication and Kayla Peterson of Admissions successfully hosted the second-ever UW-Green Bay Snapchat Q & A Day. The Q & A Day ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27. The pair answered questions (often multiple per “snapper”)…

  • UW-Green Bay Snapchat is now seeing global buzz

    UW-Green Bay Snapchat is now seeing global buzz

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    Jena Richter Landers

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    In recent days UW-Green Bay has been receiving a lot of attention — globally, even — about its innovative practice of sending snaps on Snapchat to admitted students. It began with local coverage by WBAY, and has spread rapidly from there, including Seventeen, NPR and Good Morning America. Check out some of the buzz: Hip UW-Green…

  • We were on Good Morning America!

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Some of the Snapchat stories we are following: UW-Green Bay notifies students of acceptance on Snapchat, Fox News, Dec. 2 We’ve officially reached peak millennial: UW-Green Bay a US university is accepting students via Snapchat, Irish Examiner, Dec. 2 Hip UW-Green Bay sends college acceptance notices on Snapchat, Mashable, Dec. 1 UW-Green Bay’s Acceptance “Letters”…