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Social Media

Twitter and Blogging

The Why and the How

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What is Social Media?

What accounts have you already got?

What others do we know about?

How do we use them already? How can we use them?

How should we measure social media activity, if at all?

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Twitter

What are the characteristics of Twitter?

The Twitter Spectrum

Tweets to mentions to messages

Open/Not directed Private/Directed

Normal message “Have a look at @neildenny” “@neildenny, can you...?” “d neildenny, can you...?

When might you use each?

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The Twitter Screen

Type your comment, your Click here on anyone’s profile Click here on
@message or D message here. to see who they follow – a anyone’s profile to
good way to find interesting see who follows
people. them

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Click here to see what lists people
have been listed on. Lists tend to be
based on topics and so can be a good
way of finding groups of similar
people to follow

Click here to quickly see if


anyone has mentioned you or
sent you an @message

Click here to read direct d


messages. This is your
private Twitter inbox.

You can search topics or names here.


Don’t forget to put combined words or
phrases within “quotation marks”

Exercise

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1. Use the search facility, and the following/followers lists. Find and follow 5 people who
interest you. Don’t be shy.
2. Share your user names with one another in the group.
3. Mention another delegate in a tweet.
4. @ message another delegate in a tweet.
5. D message another delegate in a tweet.
6. Tweet 5 times daily and repeat for a fortnight.
7. Complete your profile.
8. Upload a photo.

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Blogging

What makes a good blog article or “post?”

Should we allow people to comment on our blogs?

The Wordpress Blogging Website

Insert account name and password here and here

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Click here to see and manage
comments including approving
and deleting comments

The most important button.


Get blogging.

Click here to see if anyone is reading!

Blog!

Blog title goes here

Write your article here.

Click here to publish or to schedule a


later time for your article to be
published.

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Write a blog post.

1. Write a short 200-300 article on something relevant to your blog.


2. Publish it.

Now go back to Twitter and tell people on Twitter about your new blog post.

How might you be able to get people to visit your article?

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