In my Beta blog and Iteration blog, I have outlined some of the key changes, updates, and activities of my project with the Uni Bible Group. But as time keeps moving foward, so does the movement of the internet, and thus my project. Here is an update of this project and my work to help the Uni Bible Group’s online presence…
This is Denelle. Denelle has been the 2019 club secretary and has helped my representation of the club through their pages. In our chats we brainstormed ideas to help encourage students to engage with the Uni Bible Group.
With inspiration from our chats I initiated an interview type project on instagram. This consisted of texting all the club’s 2019 commitee members, and even some of the 2020 ones, asking them 5 questions.
Although these have produced incredible traction from members within the Uni Bible Group community, I am disapointed with the lack of non-member numbers. I had hoped that this project would be more appealing and friendly to all students. Regardless, through the course of this project I have seen a rise in followers by both members and non-members on the instagram page. Unfortunately, this is slow progress.
Slow growth aside, I have recieved positive feedback in person and through post engagements from within the club. This tells me that they enjoy participating in the posts, and like seeing each other along with the regular focused content. It also tells me my audience is using Instagram and that it is a valuable platform. Now to just get it to reach non-club members…
This is Tim. Tim is affiliated with the Uni Bible Group through AFES. In the past Tim posted the information about when and where the regular Uni Bible Group’s public meetings were held. He did this on Facebook with text and occasionally pictures. However, his formats didn’t have any consistancy with themes and were minimalistic. As I took over this responisbility, I did a few test prototypes and recieved feedback from a Graphic Designer and past student. I settled on a consistant theme and style. I talk more about this process in my Beta video. Here is an example:
Amy and Lucas are also first year students, studying Communications & Media and Graphic Design respectively. Next year Amy and Lucas join me as the official Uni Bible Group comms team. I am super glad to be sharing this with them and am keen to use both their skills to grow this project further. We have spent the last few weeks planning and preparing the comms team, planning projects and strategies we aim to initiate.
The communications between the secretary and myself have been moderately successful. Although the Google sheet has been able to communicate most of the necessary information, it doesn’t allow for a calendar type view and can be quite fiddly to use. I am not a huge fan of it personally. However, it gets the job done and ensures a mostly clear communication stream between myself and the secretary. I try to put as many posts into this sheet ahead of time as possible and ask Denelle to go through and approve or comment on them well ahead of schedule. This has been helpful as it lessons a lot of the workload and simplifies the process.
The next thing I need to do for the Uni Bible Group is help advertise an event they’re part of in December. I plan to do this through both platforms. I have been given content from the hosts of the event to post which I will utilise.
I also want to start another project on the instagram, as I find that space to have better engagement. I would love to start using the Stories function to engage members more as well as start some sort of project that takes advantage of Instagram’s comment algorithms. I can’t help but feel that in starting a campaign that encourages my audience to comment on posts we will significantly increase our followers and audience as a whole. After all, an active audience creates an active audience.
That is the latest progress from my work with the Uni Bible Group. If you have any thoughts or questions comment them below or tweet them to me at boswellsbrain. For more information, please visit my Beta blog and Digital Artefact page, along with my other blogs…
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This is my first time seeing this, but very interesting because I was attending a UOW youth before but haven’t been in a while. I and a couple of my friends are having our first ever youth event in Wollongong on the 26th October you should definitely come. I think your project is very positive and you just need to find people to promote it and also word of mouth. I will definitely share it around cause I know a few of my uni friends would like something like this. The progress looks promising 🙂 #bcm114
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Thankyou! I really appreciate your interest! I’d love to hear more about this event too!
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Hi there, this is also my first time coming across this DA but also this idea in general. I really like how you are doing something close to your heart and trying to share the word to people. I am a non member of the uni bible group but I have had pleasant interactions with a number of them around campus, they are always very friendly and happy to have a conversation or discussion. I think the idea of sharing stories is such a good idea as that is primarily what my DA is based around but through particular taboo kind of topics. I think it would be difficult to get many non members interested in what you are doing but I say keep up the good work because as I am a non member it still seems interesting and fun for me.
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Thank you!! your insight is invaluable! I really appreciate your perspective from outside and am keen to check out your stories!
Likewise, you’re always welcome at the Bible Group, we would love to see you at a bible study or talk 🙂
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OMG this is also my first time coming across this DA, needs more green Elmo! But it’s very pleasing to see you expand with the two new members and have the confidence to juggle all that comes with your DA. I have also experienced slow growth and a lack of interaction in my personal DA, what I found useful was to attempt to engage the audience with posts, asking questions or creating a further link, and it seems like you are thinking in the same way. Keep posts consistent and relivent as well to keep users always engaged when they log onto the platform, but overall it looks like you’re doing a great job, and slowly building the platform for the target audince, keep it up mate.
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