The document discusses various tools and strategies for social media engagement, including reading tweets, blogs, and using RSS feeds. It provides instructions on setting up accounts on Twitter and using Hootsuite, examples of social media projects, checklists for engaging communities and using blogs/Twitter, and encourages identifying study buddies for collaboration.

2. Contents
 Reading Tweets
 The textbook
 Reading blogs
 Example of work
 checklists
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3. Hootsuite
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21. Reading blogs
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22. Reading blogs
Google reader
For RSS feeds
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23. Reading blogs
You can read your RSS feed
In the browser, or on your smart
Phone, or by downloading
Some software on your desktop
(see next slide).
If you have an iPad, there is free software called Flipboard, which is the
Best way to read your feed, IMO
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24. Reading blogs
…. or by downloading
Some software on your
desktop…
This website
Has reviews of various
options
AYOR (at your own risk)
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25. Reading blogs
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26. Reading blogs
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27. Reading blogs
Sometimes you need to look for the RSS feed icon:
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28. Reading blogs
Or it might be something like this, then copy and paste it into Google Reader:
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29. Reading blogs
The way it works in Wordpress:
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30. Reading blogs
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31. Reading blogs
Tanya’s blog
In my Google
Reader feed:
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32. Example of work
 Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia
by Photojournalist Karl Grobl
(http://karlgrobl.com/blog/2010/11/angkor-hospital-
for-children-siem-reap-cambodia/).
 It’s a wonderful project — evocative, communicative,
tells a story in pictures. As involving as video would
have been. An audio track, or a little bit of text, can
contextualise the images and flesh out the issues.
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33. Example of work
 Community through crisis: Victorian farmers' market
community by Emily Naismith
http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=11
6510104326549405897.0004681c68d927910ce0e&z=7
and http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3134903/blog2/?p=393
Social software used: blog, google maps linked to pre-
existing online communities via Facebook
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34. Tute 2 checklist:
communities
 By now you should have a good list of the
communities you belong to, or at least can get
access to.
 Now you need to narrow it down:
 Which one/s has a good issue that you can use?
 Which one/s use social media? Do you use that
social media too?
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35. Tute 2 checklist: blogs
Do you know how to:
 Post an entry
 Put links in your blog
 Embed other media in your blog (video, image, audio)
 Choose a different theme for your blog
 Made a transient spaces category in your blog, and make sure all your TS posts go there
Have you made a note of everyone else’s blog url in the course
 Put their blog in your RSS Feed (Google Reader)
 Worked out how to read your Google reader feed
 Reminder: blogging assessment period starts after the tute.
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36. Tute 2 checklist: Twitter
Have you:
 Set up your Twitter account
 Followed everyone in the course in your Twitter account
 Decided how to read your Tweets (eg, using TweetDeck
or Hootsuite)
 Do you know how to use hashtags (course hashtag is
#transpaces)
 Do you know how to Tweet an individual using their @
name
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37. Tute 2 checklist:
study buddies
Missed a class? Missing some information? May need
help doing your interviews? Etcetera. A good strategy is
to have a couple of class mates to call on for help.
Have you:
 Chosen two people in the course to be study
buddies with
 Swapped contact details with them
Remember, this will only work out if the favours are
reciprocated!
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