GVSU Facebook page recognized for engagement

Grand Valley State University's official Facebook page has been named as one of the “Most Engaging College Facebook Pages of 2013” by Varsity Outreach.

Grand Valley is included in a top 10 list of universities with a fanbase of 20,000-74,999 that have been most successful at consistently engaging fans. See the list at  http://gvsu.edu/s/zQ.

Varsity Outreach, a business that helps colleges and graduate schools build communities for students within Facebook, analyzed every Facebook post on more than 700 college and university pages in the U.S. and Canada. The amount of likes, comments and shares for more than 300,000 posts in 2013 were analyzed and given an engagement score.

Since January 2012, organic growth of the page increased by nearly 75 percent.

See a full list of Grand Valley’s official social media platforms at www.gvsu.edu/socialmedia.