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Basics of Social Media Diana Silveira Novare Library Services

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Basics of Social Media

Diana Silveira

Novare Library Services

Agenda

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Pinterest

Facebook

• One Billion Users Worldwide

• 10 Years Old

• Connect with everyone to share photos, life events and more

Tour of Facebook

Tip: Cover photos are 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall- think long and wide

Privacy and Facebook

• Default settings are public!

• Check back every so often- terms often change

Tip: There is no such thing a “Private”

About those Apps

What do your friends share about you?

Are you advertising for others?

Getting the Most from Facebook

Share something

Picture Options

Click icon to add picture

Hide Annoying Posts and People

Facebook Mobile

Questions?

Twitter

• Communicate in 140 Characters

• Conversations via # “@”

Anatomy of a Tweet

Terms to know:RetweetHashtag@Twitter Handle

Hashtags

• # before a relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces)  

• Click on a #word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword.

• Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet

• Popular hashtags become Trending Topics.

• If you Tweet with a hashtag, anyone may find it.

• No more than 2 hashtags per Tweet.

• Use hashtags only on Tweets relevant to the topic. 

Example hashtags: #Sochi2014

Privacy on Twitter

At a minimum, turn off Tracking

Questions?

Pinterest

• Visualization Boards

• About Shared Interests instead of personal connections

• DIY, Decorating, Exercise, Food, Clothes, and more!

Image from: http://goo.gl/TXL4CQ

Privacy

There is no privacy – except for

secret boards

Questions?

Bonus Security Tips

• Turn on 2-step Authentication on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google

• Never use the same password for more than one site

• Eye emails with suspicion

Questions

Contact

Diana SilveiraNovare Library Services

[email protected]

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