Social Media for the Cautious Historian

Yvonne Perkins

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE CAUTIOUS HISTORIANThe Basics18/5/2013

Housekeeping

18/5/2013Yvonne Perkins

Lunch: 1:00 – 1:30pm Workshop ends: 3pm Please pay Laila for CPD during lunch No food and drink in the computer lab

What we will do today… Make the PHA NSW website work for you Find some great blogs Develop basic social media skills - twitter

and Facebook A brief look at developing your publicity plan

With guest appearances from…

The Cautious Historian18/5/2013Yvonne Perkins

Why Should Historians be Online?



Historians are communicators and

teachers….


Historians are learners and researchers…

The internet is…


The biggest communication medium in the world

Designed from the beginning to foster learning

A hive of research The most important source of news

world-wide

Yvonne Perkins

PHA NSW Website

18/5/2013

What does PHA NSW website do?


Informs the public Provides services to PHA NSW members

– publicity and information Attracts prospective members

Tour of PHA NSW website


www.phansw.org.au

http://www.phansw.org.au/

Create a member profile…


Great if you don’t have your own website Link to your own website – the more links

the better! A unique avatar very important – would

you want to hire this person?

Go ahead, create your profile now!

Passwords…


Never use the same password on more than one site.

Use a password rememberer Don’t use dictionary words Change your password regularly Don’t use the same password on

multiple sites

This is your website!


Write a PHA NSW blog post Tell the PHA NSW President if you have

an event coming up – we’ll put it in the ‘What’s On’

Why Should we use Social Media?


What is social media?


Social media focuses on facilitating two-way, public interaction using the web eg: Blogs Twitter FacebookAnd many more

Blogs


Web log Verb + noun eg. blogged, blogging, blog,

blogger Posts + comments =

interaction/development of social relationships

Single author Multiple author eg. PHA NSW blog

Simple to start through Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr

For historians social media is…


A place to exchange ideas with other colleagues

Where professional news and issues are shared

A significant publicity tool Free for everyone to access

The Cautious Historian says…


Only sign up for a social media account if you know you can de-activate the account if you wish

If the intellectual property of something is dear to you, don’t put it on social media

Don’t share anything that you would not want shared very publicly

Use up to date virus protection software


But we need to be moderate in our caution…

Or we will miss out on opportunities…

And run the risk of total irrelevancy!

Today you will learn…


How to use social media professionally: to increase your professional

development to network with colleagues around the

world to publicise your work

You will NOT learn how to be a social media sensation overnight!

Blogging and tweeting works…


“Most of my papers, before I blogged and tweeted them, had one to two downloads, even if they had been in the repository for months (or years, in some cases). Upon blogging and tweeting, within 24 hours, there were on average seventy downloads of my papers.”

Melissa Terras, 3/4/2012

http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/is-blogging-and-tweeting-about-research.html


Explore the world of blogging…


Go to http://www.phansw.org.au/members-section/, click on CPD 18th May and find interesting history blogs.

http://www.phansw.org.au/members-section/


Twitter


Why Twitter?


Publicise your work to public and colleagues: Melissa Terras @pha_nsw

Be up to date, hear the news and issues affecting history, participate in discussion about things that matter to your professional life eg open access

Learn and discuss eg digital humanities



Becoming a Tweep


Think about your Twitter handle – a variation on your name?

Identify yourself with a photo Fill in your ‘About’ Add a website link about what you do –

you could use your PHA NSW profile for this!

How to de-activate your twitter account

1. Follow others


You decide who you want to listen to If you change your mind, just unfollow –

no-one is going to get offended

Go to http://www.phansw.org.au/members-section/, click on CPD 18th May, scroll down and find some tweeps to follow




Generosity and Support


A vital element of a successful twitter stream

Support others who deserve support Share resources you have discovered On a personal twitter stream over ½

tweets should be supportive of others

Basic Twitter Concepts


RT = retweet (3 methods) DM = direct message @ messages and via # = hashtag Shortlinks

Give it a go!


Let’s chat on twitter Include #phanswcpd in every tweet you

send in this session Consider adding #OzHst in tweets you

want to be seen in that twitter stream.

The Cautious Historian says…


Trolls: engage, ignore or block Spam: don’t get sucked in

Trolls


Someone who posts tweets who can be seen to be offensive, aggressive, abusive or otherwise disrupts conversation

Don’t feed the trolls? Many ways to deal with trolls Blocking trolls on twitter

What does spam look like?


An example: An @message from someone you don’t

know with a link The tweep sending the @message

doesn’t follow anyone and has no-one following them

Reporting spammers

Other dangerous tweets


A DM: “I thought you should know what people are

saying about you online [link]” “You are famous now [link]” Funny picture of you [link]Etc.

Cause: Hacking of twitter accountsSolution: Ignore and don’t click on such links, change your password regularly.

Facebook


Why?


Connect with other historians Discuss things privately on PHA NSW

page Many local history societies use

Facebook instead of websites Museums, libraries and other public

institutions have active Facebook pages (look out for them on twitter as well)

Set up your Facebook page…


Privacy Settings are important! Facebook changes recheck your

privacy settings regularly! If you want to be really safe, don’t say

something private even if you think your privacy settings will protect you

Go to our PHA NSW CPD page download instructions on privacy

http://www.phansw.org.au/members-section/cpd-18th-may/

Sharing great Facebook pages


Go to the FB page, click on the down arrow next to the wheel on the FB page (not your wheel)

Choose ‘share’ Where do you want to share it? If you

want to share it with PHA NSW members click ‘On your own timeline’ and change to ‘in a group’

Explore History on Facebook


Join the PHA NSW Facebook group and make a post or comment on our Facebook page

Find historians that you know and send them a friend request

Find great history Facebook pages – share them on the PHA NSW Facebook page

Group your FB friends via lists


Great way to separate your private family posts from your professional history posts and comments!

Do this by going to your Friends page and clicking on the ‘Friends’ button next to your FB friend’s name.

Conclusion


Over to you…


What have you found valuable in this session?

What would you like to learn more about?

Please fill in the PHA NSW feedback sheets – your thoughts are needed to help us provide the best CPDs!

Thankyou!


If you have any questions or news post them on the PHA NSW Facebook page, and

Keep sharing with us @pha_nsw on twitter

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Social Media for the Cautious Historian