Social media tips
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For a presentation to UVM's CESS Communications committee, 7/27/11.
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Social media tips
- 1. Using social media with UVM websites twitter flickr video add this http://www.slideshare.net/TarrantInstitute
- 2. Twitter: Easy to create and embed customized widgets in UVM web templates Get self-updating content created by other people Control almost everything
- 6. Profile widget: one person’s tweets
- 7. Just copy and paste:
- 9. Copy and paste: First, put your cursor inside the box of scary code. Click once. The code will get highlighted. Next go to: Edit > Copy Open up your webpage editor and locate the code view. Paste. Preview. Tweak.
- 10. Search widget: get other people’s tweets on a topic
- 11. Get fancy!
- 12. Get even fancier! Search.twitter.com/advanced
- 13. Faves widget: only the tweets you explicitly choose Login to your twitter account Favorite some tweets Only those tweets will show up in your widget
- 14. List widget: all the tweets from people you choose Build a list in your twitter account
- 15. Use the list in your widget:
- 16. #hashtags:search terms that allow you to group similar tweets
- 17. #hashtags are useful for: Controlling the tweets on a list Live-tweeting an event Finding new people to follow who share your interests Attracting followers and planning world domination
- 18. #hashtags are also useful for Hosting a long-distance chat with collaborators. Twitter will automatically keep a record of the chat and you can host the whole thing on your homepage #cesscomm, anyone?
- 20. Make it easy for people to tweet your content Have them do your marketing for you :)
- 21. Learn more about twitter …by going to my diigo collection of twitter bookmarks: http://groups.diigo.com/group/cesscomm
- 22. Flickr: a photo-sharing service
- 23. Using flickr with UVM websites: Create and embed a slideshow of your photos First, create a Set on flickr
- 24. Make it a slideshow, then click Share
- 25. Grab the embed code and copy it (resist the freakout)
- 26. Paste the code in your website:
- 27. Embedding also works with video:
- 28. Just copy and paste the embed code:
- 29. Vimeo:
- 30. SchoolTube:
- 31. Add This: Getting other people to share your content on twitter, facebook, diggit, diigo and other social networks is a good thing.
- 32. How to use Add This: Go to addthis.com Sign up for a free account Copy ….and paste
Editor's Notes
- Pull up: http://www.uvm.edu/tiie/?Page=articles.html&SM=resourcemenu.htmlTo see the search widget in action
- Demonstration? http://www.uvm.edu/tiie/?Page=twitter.html
- Go to live demonstrationhttp://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23elearning
- Pause for demonstration
- Live demo as necessary
- You can have the slideshow run on the page: http://www.uvm.edu/tiie/?Page=news_archive.htmlOr you can let it open up on people’s browsers: http://www.uvm.edu/tiie/newsletters/7_11_11.html