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By the Numbers & Tweet Sheet

Social Skills

Exploring the College’s social media presence.

By Steve Brearton

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Infographic illustrating statistics about education in Ontario. Long description follows.
Infographics: Hannah Browne/Studio 141

An illustrated infographic titled, By The Numbers: Social Skills, a look at the College's social media presence by Steve Brearton. The infographic is divided into three sections.

The first section is titled Social Schedule and lists the dates when the College joined various social media platforms. In October 2009 the College joined YouTube. In March 2012 Facebook. In January 2013 Twitter. In March 2016 Instagram. In September 2016 Pinterest.

The next section is titled Face Time and lists the following data: As of December 31, 2016 the College had 7,833 followers on its English Facebook page and 989 followers on its French Facebook page for a total of 8,822 followers. Additionally, the College has 4,578 followers on its bilingual Twitter account and has sent over 4,637 Tweets since joining. In 2016 the College received 9,890,139 impressions on Facebook and 2,990,000 impressions on Twitter.

The next section is titled Video Feed and says that the most popular English video on the College’s YouTube channel is Registering with Ontario College of Teachers with 47,077 views. Since 2009, the College has uploaded 55 videos onto YouTube in English and French and profiled 22 award-winning teachers in the Great Teaching and Pratiques Exemplaires series.