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Social Media- Finding the best platforms for you.
What is social
media?“Social media is a way to
communicate via the internet. It’s about starting a conversation online- either in a written form, a visual for or
an audio form”.
Social media is also a place to share lots of cat pictures!
Twitter• 140 characters
• Follow friends, businesses and celebrities
• Communicate with a person by putting an @ before their Twitter username (e.g: @hollieanneb)
• Great for finding new friends, local information, following your favourite brands
• Best for keeping in touch with friends and family
• Updating your status
• Join groups (such as the Sherwood W.I group!)
• “Like” businesses, TV shows, celebrities, hobbies- share your interests with your friends.
• Get snapping- upload your photographs and share the joy.
• A free app for iPhone, iPad and Android phone
• Allows you to add cool filters to your pictures
• Share, search hashtags, like and comment
• Follow friends, find people into your interests, use as a visual diary
• Use as a giant moodboard!
• Have as many boards as you please- cats, cake, craft and crochet
• See an image you like somewhere online? Click the Pinterest button to add to your board
• See an image you like on someone else’s board? Click the Re-Pin button
• Perfect for finding craft ideas, recipes, tips and inspiration
Tumblr
• Allows you to create your own blog
• Simple, easy to use and easy to follow other Tumblr blogs
• Add words, pictures, video, audio etc...
• LOTS of other blogs on Tumblr to cover every need- from cats eating cakes to blogs celebrating vegan brownies
• The social media site for professionals
• Create a profile, add your CV, add your skills
• Connect to colleagues past and present and ask them to endorse you as a professional
• Great for searching for jobs
Youtube
• Broadcast yourself!
• Perfect for searching for and watching tutorials
• Search for music videos, TV clips, funny videos of animals etc
• Store all your favourite videos in a playlist and share videos you love on Twitter and Facebook
Vine
• Free app available for iPhone and Anroid
• “Create a scene in six seconds”
• Share your video on Twitter
• Add hashtags so people can find and like your video
Don’t get overwhelmed
• Use as many or as little social media sites as you like- you don’t have to bother with them if it’s not your thing!
• Enjoy it, be creative, have fun!
• Fancy a chat with me on Twitter? Tweet @hollieanneb