Changes coming to Ohio Hi-Point social media channels

Ohio Hi-Point Career Center's Office of Marketing and Communications will be making changes this summer to our social media outreach tools and the way we engage with constituents.  With presences on various social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and through blogging, the district takes pride in its traditional and new means of communicating to the public.  In order to improve and streamline these tactics, the following changes will take place over the summer before the start of the new school year in August:

• Ohio Hi-Point's official Facebook page will be changing over from a profile page to a fan page in July.  Unfortunately, there is no way to make this change except by starting fresh. "Beginning in July, we invite everyone to 'Like' us on our new fan page.  We created the profile page before fan pages were the industry standard, so now we are making the shift to make our presence on Facebook more open and available to all," said Shane Haggerty, who oversees the district's communications efforts.  Friends on the current Facebook can simply search for Ohio Hi-Point Career Center starting in July and "Like" the fan page.  Information will stop being posted on the current profile page on July 1, 2010
• The home page of this website will undergo a minor face-lift as part of a continuing effort to make information easier to find for visitors.  You will see the new look this summer
• Superintendent Davis' TGIF Blog that she posts to every Friday will no longer be updated starting later this summer.  Instead, a new collaborative administrator's blog will launch called Talking Points.  This blog will feature Superindent Davis every Friday, but it will also feature blog entries and information from High School Associate Director Shelly Swaney, High School Associate Director Joel Staudter, Satellite Director Deb Wortman, Adult Education Director Darlene Chiles and Facility and Grounds Supervisor Robert Walker. "The goal is to streamline our administrators into one location and to pass along important information for these various audiences in one place," said Haggerty.  "Currently, our superintendent is the only administrator providing consistent communication to the public, and we feel it is important for all of our administrators to be communicating."  The new blog will be featured on the updated home page of the website for people to easily locate
• Hi-Point Journeys will start its second year after a first year that was highly successful for marketing, communication and recruiting.  "We will have 17-20 student bloggers documenting their journey throughout the school year, but we are adding more interactive elements for prospective students and parents on the actual Journeys microsite," said Haggerty.  The Hi-Point Journeys site will get a facelift this summer and will be built to include an interactive quiz that can help prospective students and parents figure out which programs they might want to explore and eventually enroll within for career-technical education.  The new site will launch on September 1, 2010