Hashtags – Not What’s For Dinner
Before getting into the specifics of Twitter, Facebook, etc. let’s look at a tool that is useful on both those services, as well as Instagram, Google+, Tumblr, YouTube and more: hashtags
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Social Media Guide For Fans – Chapter 1 Introduction
I’m currently working with electric harpist/storyteller/composer Deborah Henson-Conant on her latest project: DHC-TV provides live mini-concerts webcast from her home studio via the Concert Window site. In addition to behind-the-camera technical support I am also providing a brief What Betty Knows feature during the show to help teach her viewers, many of whom are novice social media users, how to interact with DHC and other fans using various social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et al.
I’m writing an ebook from the information I plan to present during the show. Here’s the first chapter draft: an introduction to why fans might want to use social media to communicate with and about their favorite performers:
What Impression Is Your Website Making?
I just received a message sent via the Contact page on this site: a polite inquiry from someone wishing to provide content for my blog. As I have no current plans to outsource writing about what I know to others, I sat down to send a quick reply to that effect. But since her email’s domain was from what was probably her business website I first decided to check that out.
What I found (using Chrome) was such a mess that even if I was interested in 3rd party content I would never deal with her:
Finding The URL Of A Facebook Post
If you are a multimodal user of social media you may wish at times to alert your audience in one area of your activity on another area, e.g., post a link to your new blog article on your Facebook page. There are various tools that make this easier – usually “share” buttons allow you to repost to another social media site, e.g., sharing your Instagram photo to your Twitter feed.
But sometimes you want to share in a way for which a handy button does not exist, such as embedding a link (URL) to a specific Facebook post and its comments in your email newsletter. How do you find the URL of that post? Facebook just wants you to use their “share” button to stay inside their site so that doesn’t tell you the link.
Here’s how: