social media tips

Using social media with UVM websites

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Twitter:

• Easy to create and embed customized widgets in UVM web templates

• Get self-updating content created by other people

• Control almost everything

How?• http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets

Profile widget: one person’s tweets

Just copy and paste:

Resist the freakout.

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.

Search widget: get other people’s tweets on a topic

Get fancy!

Get even fancier!

Search.twitter.com/advanced

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

List widget: all the tweets from people you choose

• Build a list in your twitter account

Use the list in your widget:

#hashtags:search terms that allow you to group similar tweets

#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

#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?

More twitter widgets:

Make it easy for people to tweet your content

Have them do your marketing for you :)

Learn more about twitter

• …by going to my diigo collection of twitter bookmarks:

http://groups.diigo.com/group/cesscomm

Flickr: a photo-sharing service

Using flickr with UVM websites:

• Create and embed a slideshow of your photosFirst, create a Set on flickr

Make it a slideshow, then click Share

Grab the embed code and copy it

(resist the freakout)

Paste the code in your website:

Embedding also works with video:

Just copy and paste the embed code:

Vimeo:

SchoolTube:

Add This:• Getting other people to share your content on twitter, facebook, diggit,

diigo and other social networks is a good thing.

How to use Add This:

• Go to addthis.com• Sign up for a free account• Copy ….and paste

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