Social Media Manager

More than anything, my time in Toyon has taught me what it means to market myself and the organizations/companies/businesses/groups I belong to in the best possible way. Like writing, public image depends on one’s intended audience. The Toyon English class has provided us with wonderful educational opportunities in career planning and professional development. These opportunities combined with the topics in my other classes this semester have pretty clearly set me on the path toward Food Justice advocacy, for which I am grateful.

I’ve also learned a lot about the kinds of social media posts that get the biggest response from Humboldt State students and found that the Toyon social media platforms work well as a space to provide students with tools for success from writing workshops to publishing opportunities on campus. I hope these posts are mutually beneficial for Toyon and HSU students.

The Featured Friday post series I have been working on kicked off with Marina Fittinghoff, one of Toyon’s Fiction Editors in the HSU Writing Practices English Pathway program. This post was highly viewed and liked on both Facebook and Instagram. I am hoping that featuring staff members will increase the visibility of their work and blogs, and that the success of staff members will serve as qualitative evidence that Toyon is benefiting the students that get involved.

I am working now to figure out a way to promote campus opportunities on the Toyon Literary Magazine Website, either by creating a new page with posts about relevant materials or by somehow showing social media posts on the Toyon website.

I am also working on a way to get more HSU student followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter –

https://learn.humboldt.edu/pluginfile.php/312538/mod_forum/attachment/337568/Social%20Media%20.pdf

~ Ciera