Word Camp Victoria - Integrated Social Media Building

Integrated social media site building (aka using SNS to enhance your WordPress blog) Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega http://www.raulpacheco.org (research) http://hummingbird604.com (personal/social media)

This talk isn't about social media It's about how you can use social media to make your WordPress site/blog better

Credit and source: http://www.fredcavazza.net/2008/06/09/social-media-landscape/

Of the Social Networking Sites (SNS) ... I normally live here....
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/drpachecovega
Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/hummingbird604
http://www.twitter.com/raulpacheco
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rolexpv
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/drhummingbird604

Social media is an enabling agent
Finding information
Learning from other’s stories
Building trust and strengthening relationships
Sharing your story ( storytelling )

How can you use SNS to make your blog more attractive/usable?
Twitter
iFrames & ScribbleLive
Facebook
Sidebar widget for cross-promotion
YouTube
Embeddable videos
Flickr
Embedding photos/re-sizing

Live Demos
Let's go into WordPress so that I can show you live how to use each one.
Remember, most of what I'm going to show you is possible on a self-hosted install of WordPress (.org)
I will try show some stuff that can be done with WordPress.com, though.

List of live demos
Integrating Twitter into a WordPress site
Capture live tweets related to a particular topic/hashtag
Liveblog and integrate tweets
CoverItLive vs. ScribbleLive
Integrating Flickr into your WordPress site
Making the insertion of photos easier and faster
I use the HTML editor, not the visual one
I use a modified version of PhotoDropper (WP plugin), WP-Flickr and Flickr Photo (3 plugins)

In conclusion
Social media (social networking sites) can be used both inbound (to feed into a blog) or outbound (to feed your blog to broadcasting channels)
Your WordPress site should be integrated with all social networking sites you have a link with.
Your WordPress blog is your home base. Everything should point out back at it.

Thanks for listening!
Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD
How to contact me:
Via email
[email_address] for social media matters
[email_address] for my enviro research
Via contact form on my blogs
http://hummingbird604.com social medial/personal
http://www.raulpacheco.org research
Via Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/hummingbird604 social media
http://www.twitter.com/raulpacheco research

Word Camp Victoria - Integrated Social Media Building

by Raul Pacheco-Vega on Nov 15, 2009

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