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Twitter: Continued For each new follower, copy their prole link, name, and bio to PREM in the database. Twitter

handles go in ODEM.

Facebook procedures on next page

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Facebook

Facebook is a little tricky since what we have access to depends a lot on the users privacysettings.

1 and 2: After logging in to Facebook using your account (students doing this task will need to

be managers on the Laurentian University Alumni Association page), select the Laurentian

University Alumni Association page.

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3. Head to the Likes notication area.

34. Click See more likes. (note that this is not a complete list of users who like our page.)Go back as far as the last time this procedure was done.

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5. Click on a users name.

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6. Copy the users prole link into ODEM.

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7. If the user allows us to view any information in their About section, copy that to the data-

base as well.

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LinkedIn procedures on next page

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Once that is done for all new connection requests...

4. Hover over the Network menu, click on Contacts,5. Which brings you to another page, sort contacts by New6. If you see a new connection, not on the spreadsheet, click the name which will open a

prole preview.

7. Click view full prole.

8. Copy all relevant information to the spreadsheet as in previous steps.

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After getting all the information from new LinkedIn connections, time to do the same for thosenew Facebook likes and Twitter followers.

Go to the Laurentian University LinkedIn Page with these steps.

Followers + Likes = LinkedIn research

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Once you get to the search page, start looking up those new Facebook and Twitter followers.

You may get multiple results and will need to use information from the other proles to make

a positive match.

Once a match is established., copy all relevant information to the database where appropriate.

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Putting it all together

Once youve mined all the data you could from social media proles, time to use all that

information to update the database.

Using Datatel, search for every new name in the Followers spreadsheet.

o It can be a challenge matching the new Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn follower to a Datatel entry.Look at the persons bio, any links they have, graduation year, degree, last known address, etc.

can yield clues to help determine the correct person. Looking at previous posts when possible

can help as well. Once a match is found, update home and business information as needed, including any

email addresses.

The persons social media links and handles need to be saved using the ODEM feature in

Datatel. To get there, follow these steps.

11. Access the NAE search feature. If you have someones record pulled up in

PAVI, simply type NAE in the top left, hit enter and youll be there. Next,

click additional info.

22. Click on ODEM. (BIO will let you access phone, address etc.)

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