This document provides tips for professional teaching organizations to engage with social media. It recommends connecting with others in your field through professional networks to learn about current issues. Social media can widen an organization's community and exposure by sharing content about events and membership to attract new members. The tips are to start small with practical uses of social media, create and maintain an active online community, develop social media policies, engage members online, and learn how to use different tools to make community management easier.

1. Social Media
for
Professional
Teaching
Organisations

2. WHY
ENGAGE
• Professional networks – connect with others – around the country –
around the world! Professional expertise – what is going on in your
discipline? Your community? LEARN
CREATE
• Widen community
• Content
EXPOSURE
• Events
• Membership: might come if you have an online community that is seen as
valuable to the observer who might not be part of the association.

3. Via douglaswray on Instagram

5. 5 Tips for Professional
Teaching Associations
1. Start small: start practical
2. Personnel: create and keep an active community
3. Policy
4. Engage
5. Know the tools : make life easier

6. Start Small, Start
Practical

8. Keep an
active
community

11. Policy
Source: Intel Social Media Policy
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/legal/intel-social-media-guidelines.html
For a list of Social Media / Online use policies:
http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php#axzz1mtYNCw
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12. Engage / Know the tools

13. Engage / Know the tools

14. Know the tools

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