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UCC's Digital Arts and Humanities MA class on Social Media (Part 1 - Twitter and Facebook)
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Social Media (Part I)
The Fundamentals of Twitter and Facebook
• The virtual coffee shop.
• A social networking tool.
• Building and interacting with social communities.
Reasons for using Twitter
• An educational tool.• A vast knowledge network.• Interacting beyond the classroom.• Connecting with other learning communities.• Rapid broadcasting/consumption of
information.
Objectives
• Create and setup an account.• The fundamentals of using Twitter.• Twitter Lingo• Tips for effective tweeting.• Twitter tools
Tips for Effective Tweeting
• (1): Use hash tags sparingly. – Placed at the end to enhance readability.– Integrate hashtags into your tweets.
• (2): Use links properly.
• (3): Make it easy to be retweeted.
Tips for Effective Tweeting
• (4): Retweet but don’t leech.– If you want to include a comment in the retweet:
[insert comment] RT @[twitterhandle].– Use MT for a modified tweet.
• (5): Jazz up your tweets– Use humour when appropriate.– Add media to your tweets.
Tips for Effective Tweeting
• (6): Interact with your followers– Build a social community – Don’t just broadcast
• (7): Ration your tweets– It’s all about quality and not quantity!
• (8): Tweet important tweets at peak times.
Tips for Effective Tweeting
• (9): Don’t just tweet links to your own website– Tweet about interesting reads, controversial
topics, your research, etc.
• You’re broadcasting newspaper headlines– Check spelling, readability, and syntax.
Twitter Tools
• TwitNest: a Twitter network visualization tool. (See Gephi for network visualization of tweets.)
• HootSuite, Tweetdeck, Seesmic: Desktop tools for filtering tweets.
• Bit.ly, Tinyurl and Goo.gl: URL Shorteners
• Twtbase: a repository listing most of the add-on applications for Twitter.
Twitter Tools
• Twitterfeed: Feeding content to Twitter using RSS feed from your blog. Automatically tweets new blog posts.
• Twazzup and TwitterFall: Search and Query Tools.
• Twicsy: To search for tweeted images.
• Creating a Facebook Group – Join the MA DAH Facebook Group
• Creating a Facebook Page– The Irish in the American Civil War
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Irish-in-the-American-Civil-War/154065734626432
Next Week’s Assignment
• Create a Youtube account/channel at home.• Record yourself discussing one of the
following:– What does DH mean to you?– What are my learning outcomes from this course?– Why am I doing this course?– Discuss your research topic!
