Assignment title: Information
Purpose
The purpose of this task is for students to work in a team to investigate and evaluate a range of social media
metrics and analytic approaches informing recommendations towards an organisation's social media strategy.
Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes are reinforced in the completion of this task: K1, K2, K4, S1, S2, A1 and A2.
Requirements
Students are required to work in a team of approximately 3 to 5 members. Each team will select an organisation
(see list below), identify, evaluate and make recommendations regarding appropriate social media metrics,
analytics tools, and potential data mining approaches.
Each team will be required to submit a written report presenting the analysis and findings in relation to
recommended social intelligence approaches. Each team member is to write a section of the report
(approximately 500 words per team member overall minimum 2000 words and max 2500 words).
Each team member will also be required to deliver approximately 6-10 minute oral presentation to the class,
summarising the findings of their analysis and recommendations.
Analysis of metrics should take into account aspects like: definition, purpose, information generated, usefulness,
benefits, shortcommings etc. Evaluation and recommendations should take into account the type of
organisation, the social media presence of the organisation and the social media goals of the organisation etc.
Students may like to select from the following metrics and tools in relation to their selected organisation (or
come up with their own selections as appropriate):
metric measures e.g. number of followers or friends, number of posts, number of comments, number of
social media analytics and monitoring tools e.g. Google Alerts
social media mining tools e.g. Weka
Select one (1) from the following list of organisations: Monash University, SAP, IBM, Dell Computers, Pizza Hut,
Ford Motor Company, Starbucks, Zappos, or another organisation as agreed upon with lecturer (permission
from the lecturer must be granted before commencing work).
comments per post, net promoter score, ROI
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Academic Presentation:
Reports should be presented as a business style report, including title page, executive summary, table of
contents, introduction, body encompassing analysis and discussion, conclusion, and references in accordance
with:
General Guide to Referencing: http://federation.edu.au/
data/assets/pdf_file/0015/164121/FedUni-
http://federation.edu.au/
General-Guide-to-Referencing-2014.pdf
General Guide to Writing and Study Skills:
data/assets/pdf_file/0018/190044/2014-General-Guide-to-Writing-and-Study-
Submission:
Skills.pdf
This task will be marked by the course lecturer and/or tutors. Prior to the week 11 tutorial submit ONE (1) copy
of the following per team via Moodle:
an electronic copy of the presentation
an electronic copy of the team report
Please refer to the Course Description for information regarding late assignments, extensions, special
consideration, and plagiarism. A reminder all academic regulations can be accessed via the university's
website, see: http://federation.edu.au/staff/governance/legal/feduni-legislation
Feedback and Marks:
Feedback and marks will be provided in Moodle. Marks will also be available in FDL Marks.
Time Required:
Time required to complete this task is approximately 20 hours.