Social Media Advice for Conferences

A while back I went to a “how to ‘do’ social media for (academic conferences).  Typed up stuff and… left it on my desktop…

Good advice includes;

• start early
• have a separate email address (also makes it easier to get a twitter account)
• don’t overcommit to stuff (if you’re not populating a blog/updating a twitter feed, then it’s worse than useless…)
• don’t bother with facebook for academic purposes
• Interesting decision to just have a hashtag, rather than an account – could work!

They talked about

• blogging/websites – weebly, wordpress, blogspot
• then facebook, twitteresque then eventbrite
• Finding images – discussion of permissions (online and meatspace being different beasts)
• Flickr, John Rylands Library Image service

Stuff I didn’t know well/at all

• you can schedule posts on Facebook (I assumed it was twitteresque)
• weebly
• twubs.com
• visibletweets.com
• Flickr has an image bank the Internet Archive Book Images

That list of what we knew

facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram, pinterest, pblobspot, googleplus, linkedin, wordpress, mendeley, snapchat, youtube, academia.edu ,

I didn’t mention Grindr…