Amplify Your Content Creation Stategy with RebelMouse

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RebelMouse Main Page


Here’s my main page. Yours will look blank because you haven’t yet told RebelMouse which social media profiles to grab.

Deciding Which Profiles to Add

Considerations: Reputation management: If you are using

RebelMouse professionally, don’t link to sites where you post pictures of kittens – unless you are an purveyor of vegan, gluten free cat treats.

Keep in mind some of your social media profiles may be linked. If I post on my FB page, it automatically posts to Twitter. RebelMouse is good at catching redundancies, but test it before you let it fully fly without bird-dogging it a bit.

If unsure, select ‘save to draft’ as you link your profiles. This gives you the ability to manually post the content that RebelMouse pulls in. (More on that when I show you how I added Pinterest.)


Add Social Profiles


Let’s link to some social profiles so that RebelMouse can pull in your content from other sites. Hit the ‘Content Sources’ button.

Add Social Profiles on This Page


My primary social media links are already created, so this is just an example of what your page will look like. (Notice a feature is free now that they will charge for later…)

Let’s Add My Pinterest


RebelMouse now hosts Pinterest. I try to cite and provide links to all content, but I can’t guarantee I was doing that when I started over a year ago. Let’s add the platform in anyway. So scrolling down the page…

Controlling Which Content Shows


In my last slide, I told you how I feel sketchy about adding Pinterest pins to my RebelMouse site. Some considerations:

• Pinterest is a more personal social media platform for me, and I want to use RebelMouse for my professional content.

• I don’t want my RebelMouse page to be flooded with images of zentangles or owls or my encompassing love of all things fort.

• I do have some professional Pinterest boards I would like to be able to pull content from.

• I want to be able to control what content I add from Pinterest to RebelMouse.

The next slide will show how to do that.

http://www.pinterest.com/kaleyperkins/

http://www.pinterest.com/kaleyperkins/

http://www.pinterest.com/kaleyperkins/pencil-drawings-zentangles/

http://www.pinterest.com/kaleyperkins/pencil-drawings-zentangles/

http://www.pinterest.com/kaleyperkins/owls/

http://www.pinterest.com/kaleyperkins/fort-girl/

Pinterest Has Been Added


Pinterest has been added AND I can control if I want content to post directly to my RebelMouse page. I don’t. I want it to go into a holding pot so I can make that decision manually later. I hit the ‘save to draft’ button.

Ways to Promote Content


You can either direct people to your aggregated content which appears to be a website hosted RebelMouse or you can embed that content onto your own personally hosted website. Or both.

Direct to RebelMouse.

Embed code on your own site.

Both

How RebelMouse Site Appears:


This is what my content looks like if I go straight to my page on RebelMouse. Incidently, check out the tweet I just composed.

https://www.rebelmouse.com/kaley_perkins/

(Sidetrack: Tweet from RebelMouse)


Remember that tweet I just composed on RebelMouse? Check it out on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/kaley_perkins/status/422575915345145856

The Tweet Made a Live Update


Remember the tweet I just composed? Here it is on the live site!

How Embed Code Appears


Here is RebelMouse content when I embed the code on my site. This is a basic explanation. If I were going to use RebelMouse as my primary site, I would alter the appearance of my WordPress website.

Site Before We Embed RebelMouse


Let’s back up. Check out the tabs. This is what my site looked like before I added RebelMouse code. No home for RebelMouse. We need to fix that. First we are going to make a new Page. Then we are going to add that Page to our menu bar between ‘Home’ and ‘Culture.’

How to Embed Code on WordPress


There’s more than one way. I created a separate page in WordPress, and I added that page to my menu bar. First, let’s make a new page.

Adding a Page on WordPress


Go to your WordPress dashboard and add a Page. I named mine Rebel Mouse. Publish the page. Now you need to add it to your menu bar.

Find the Code on RebelMouse


We have our new Page. Now, let’s go to RebelMouse to find the code we will install on it!

Generate Your Code with Settings


RebelMouse allows you to tweak the code. I left it as default because I don’t know how it’s going to look yet. Following these steps I can change it if I need to. Click the button to generate the code.

Grab Your Newly Generated Code


After you generate the code, it will appear on the bottom of the screen. You may have to scroll to find it. Select it all and copy it to your clipboard. Now let’s return to our new Page in WordPress and add it!

Add Your Code to WordPress


Now let’s return to the newly created WordPress Page we made for Rebel Mouse and add the embed code to it! (Your screen may still read ‘Add Page.’ Mine says ‘Edit Page’ because I did this step later.)

Find Your Menu Bar


We made a new Page and added our embedded RebelMouse code. Let’s add it to our menu bar. On your WordPress dashboard, navigate to your menu bar. It is under the tab ‘Appearance.’

Add New Page to Your Menu


You created your ‘RebelMouse’ Page. Now you need to add it to your menu bar. Click it. Then Save Changes.

Re-position on Menu Bar


Your new ‘RebelMouse’ Page will show at bottom of ‘Menu Structure’ list. Grab it and pull it where you want it. Save changes.

There you have it!


This is a very basic tutorial that assumes quite a bit of practice working with the WordPress dashboard. RebelMouse and WordPress are both powerful content promotion platforms. Tutorials abound on YouTube and on each of the platforms’ sites.

As with any social media platform, the best thing you can do is take a weekend and experiment.

I see great possibility for the free version of RebelMouse to be a solutions for both independent journalists and bloggers who are trying to leverage both their time and their content. The paid version has some fantastic features for more sophisticated curation of UGC (user-generated content), but may be prohibitively priced for individuals just starting out.

I hope this has been useful to you, and I welcome comments at www.kaleyperkins.com. Or by email at kaleydperkins at gmail dot com.

http://www.kaleyperkins.com/

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