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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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