1. SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR HISTORIANS
Cheyenne Hohman
A&S Hive

3. What Is Social Media?
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Virtual communities & networks, often based
on a type of media shared or a specific interest

4. What Is Social Media?
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Virtual communities & networks, often based
on a type of media shared or a specific interest
Accessible & scalable via varied publishing
techniques

5. What Is Social Media?
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Virtual communities & networks, often based
on a type of media shared or a specific interest
Accessible & scalable via varied publishing
techniques
Depends on collaboration, exchange,
interaction, and mobile & web-based
technologies

6. What Is Social Media?
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Virtual communities & networks, often based
on a type of media shared or a specific interest
Accessible & scalable via varied publishing
techniques
Depends on
collaboration, exchange, interaction, and
mobile & web-based technologies
Ephemeral quality, but don’t take that for
granted

7. FACEBOOK
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Pages
Serve as a bulletin board for your posts
 Platform to share news, events, links, videos, etc.
 One-to-many communication flow
 Best for announcements
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9. FACEBOOK
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Groups
Serve as a forum; participation is key
 Still can share news, events, links, videos, etc
 Many-to-many communication flow
 Can include documents
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12. TWITTER
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Networking tool for casual & professional folks
Defaults to public – can be made private
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@usernames to “call out” – communicate publicly
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#terms that others may search – may be a
topic, author, etc. Also sometimes used as a
comic device.
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Certified/Official accounts – to disambiguate
duplicate or parody profiles

16. TWITTER
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Conference use
Follow #hashtag offered by the conference
 Tweet @users that offer comments on sessions
you attended
 Do not tweet about unpublished work unless
you’re sure the author doesn’t mind
 Follow scholars and fellow @users to
network/collaborate with
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17. TWITTER
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If presenting, introduce your Twitter handle on
the first slide, and a tinyURL or tweet a bit.ly
link to your presentation on Slideshare.
If responding to a presentation, include the
presenter’s @username and your comment,
with a link to your source if possible.

18. HOOTSUITE
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Neutral, third-party service

19. HOOTSUITE
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Neutral, third-party service
Plays well with Facebook, Twitter, Google+
and more

20. HOOTSUITE
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Neutral, third-party service
Plays well with Facebook, Twitter, Google+
and more
Scheduling tool – time, date, and “auto
schedule”

21. HOOTSUITE
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Neutral, third-party service
Plays well with Facebook, Twitter, Google+
and more
Scheduling tool – time, date, and “auto
schedule”
Analytics

22. HOOTSUITE
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Neutral, third-party service
Plays well with Facebook, Twitter, Google+
and more
Scheduling tool – time, date, and “auto
schedule”
Analytics
In-house link shortener

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28. INSTAGRAM
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Visual medium with # and @ protocols like
Twitter
Used heavily, mobile-friendly
Engage audiences with scavenger
hunts, contests
Announce events
Square format
Mobile-only sharing platform

29. CREATIVE COMMONS
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Alternative to traditional copyright
Search.creativecommons.org:
Photographs
 Clip art
 Illustrations
 Music
 Videos
 Media
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 Double
fear!
check all results & cite properly – use without

30. CREATIVE COMMONS

37. PREZI
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Platforms for sharing presentations
Prezi
Proprietary format; zoomable
 .edu registration allows more editing options
 Plays nicely with certain media hosts
(YouTube, etc)
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41. SLIDESHARE
Hosts PowerPoints, PDFs and documents for free
 Searchable by topic, author, popularity
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42. SLIDESHARE

43. SLIDESHARE
Current?
Popular?

44. SLIDESHARE

45. SLIDESHARE

46. BLOGS
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Good place to get info, opinions, post updates,
and network with other scholars
Blogs can be posted through the A&S website

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Questions?
Comments?
Suggestions?
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Jessicah.Hohman@uky.edu
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