1. Social Media Management
LIS 4930
Casey Yu
Fall 2013
Week 2
9/5/13
FSU SLIS – Florida’s iSchool -- Florida State University, College of Communication & Information

2. Social Media Management
Agenda
• New to the class? See me after lecture portion is over
• Smoke Signals
• Attendance
• News
Today's topics:
• Deciding on a blog name
• Installing Wordpress
• Installing plugins (akismet for starters!)
Work time!
• Weekly Wiki Assignment
• Set up your domain and blog
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3. Social Media Management
Smoke Signals – how to get in touch with Casey
• My email address is the best way. cy09g@my.fsu.edu
• Subject line: LIS4830
• OR casey.yu@gmail.com
• Do NOT use Facebook or Twitter
• Sometimes I answer emails from my phone
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ATTENDANCE
Go to class blog and fill out survey – before 2:30pm!
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Deciding a blog name
• You, yourself and you
• Come up with something catchy that relates to your topic
• Be meaningful – or not!
• Short and sweet
• Amusing: http://namethingy.com/
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6. Social Media Management
FSU SLIS – Florida’s iSchool -- Florida State University, College of Communication & Information
Getting a domain and hosting squared away
• Find a hosting company
– http://www.dreamhost.com/edu/
– http://www.bluehost.com/
– http://www.vervehosting.com/
– http://www.godaddy.com/
– http://www.1and1.com/
• No Windows-based hosting, Linux/UNIX only!
• Find one that has auto-install of Wordpress unless
you want to install it yourself

7. Social Media Management
Installing Wordpress
• First, decide where you're going to install it – at the root of your
domain or elsewhere?
• Check out blog page
• To do on your blog:
– Install plugins - akismet
– Change Permalinks
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8. Social Media Management
FSU SLIS – Florida’s iSchool -- Florida State University, College of Communication & Information
• Choosing domain names
• Domjax.com

9. Social Media Management
FSU SLIS – Florida’s iSchool -- Florida State University, College of Communication & Information
Work Time!
• Create accounts and start exploring Stumbleupon and
Delicious (together), Digg, Reddit, Technorati, etc. Save links
to your Delicious collection
Your WEEK 2 wiki post should address the following:
Week 2 Assignments
1. Create a Stumbleupon account and submit the URL to your
wiki page
2. Add two new sites to your Delicious account on your area of
blogging interest. Discuss what you added and why.
3. Add a link to your new blog to your wiki page. What was the
experience of choosing a domain name like? What about
hosting?