This document provides instructions for using various social media platforms like Twitter, Flickr, and Vimeo with UVM websites. It explains how to embed Twitter widgets like profiles, searches, favorites and lists. It also describes how to create and embed Flickr slideshows and videos. Finally, it briefly mentions using AddThis to allow sharing of content on social networks and provides a link to presentations on social media resources from the Tarrant Institute.

1. Using social media with UVM websites twitter flickr video add this http://www.slideshare.net/TarrantInstitute

2. Twitter: Easy to create and embed customized widgets in UVM web templates Get self-updating content created by other people Control almost everything

4. How? http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets

6. Profile widget: one person’s tweets

7. Just copy and paste:

8. Resist the freakout.

9. Copy and paste: First, put your cursor inside the box of scary code. Click once. The code will get highlighted. Next go to: Edit > Copy Open up your webpage editor and locate the code view. Paste. Preview. Tweak.

10. Search widget: get other people’s tweets on a topic

11. Get fancy!

12. Get even fancier! Search.twitter.com/advanced

13. Faves widget: only the tweets you explicitly choose Login to your twitter account Favorite some tweets Only those tweets will show up in your widget

14. List widget: all the tweets from people you choose Build a list in your twitter account

15. Use the list in your widget:

16. #hashtags:search terms that allow you to group similar tweets

17. #hashtags are useful for: Controlling the tweets on a list Live-tweeting an event Finding new people to follow who share your interests Attracting followers and planning world domination

18. #hashtags are also useful for Hosting a long-distance chat with collaborators. Twitter will automatically keep a record of the chat and you can host the whole thing on your homepage #cesscomm, anyone?

19. More twitter widgets:

20. Make it easy for people to tweet your content Have them do your marketing for you :)

21. Learn more about twitter …by going to my diigo collection of twitter bookmarks: http://groups.diigo.com/group/cesscomm

22. Flickr: a photo-sharing service

23. Using flickr with UVM websites: Create and embed a slideshow of your photos First, create a Set on flickr

24. Make it a slideshow, then click Share

25. Grab the embed code and copy it (resist the freakout)

26. Paste the code in your website:

27. Embedding also works with video:

28. Just copy and paste the embed code:

29. Vimeo:

30. SchoolTube:

31. Add This: Getting other people to share your content on twitter, facebook, diggit, diigo and other social networks is a good thing.

32. How to use Add This: Go to addthis.com Sign up for a free account Copy ….and paste

34. http://slideshare.net/TarrantInstitute