This document provides next steps and resources for finding experts and verifying online content. It recommends searching Google with first-person terms to find blogs and discussions, and using sites like pipl.com and 123people.com to search for people by username or email. Links are included to BBC social media guidelines, training materials on Twitter basics and getting followers, a Facebook privacy guide, and a presentation on verifying online content.

1. 4. Finding experts

4. Next Steps:
1. Make sure that when you searching google, you look at the options in the left hand
column. Click on ‘blogs’ and ‘discussions’ to see what people are saying in these spaces.
Remember to search with words like ‘I’ and ‘me’ to find 1st hand accounts.
2. Try sites like pipl.com to search for people through their usernames. Try 123people.com
for email addresses and other information.

5. 5. Be aware of the blurring of personal/professional lives

6. Here is a link to the BBC Social Media Guidelines
http://bbc.in/bbcSMguidelines

8. If you want to see some short screencasts that show you how to
join twitter, the basics of twitter and top tips to get more
followers, take a look at our website where we have screencast
and handouts.
http://www.ultrasocial.co.uk/training-materials/training-
screencasts/
http://www.ultrasocial.co.uk/training-materials/training-handouts

10. This is a great recent guide to locking down your facebook page:
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/the-definitive-facebook-lockdown-guide-securing-your-
privacy-settings-sept-2011/493934

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15. This is a really good recent presentation on how to verify
content online
http://www.slideshare.net/mandyjenkins/bs-detection-for-
journalists
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16. claire@ultrasocial.co.uk // ultrasocial.co.uk // @cward1e