Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Like all tools, they need a bit of research or training
Social Networks raise some issues for CLD
Prezi developed from materials written by
Gavin Crosby
Youth Work Strategy Implementation Manager
– City of Edinburgh Council
This prezi serves as an introduction, but if you want to try out any of the tools you will need to register accounts with one or more of these:
You may have heard of:
Social media’s aims are closely linked to CLD’s aims:
Social Media and CLD
Words that are most commonly used to describe social media – see how many words chime with CLD
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494
RSS – Really Simple Syndication
Creates short headlines based on changes to a website or a blog
Allows other people, websites, mobile phones to quickly get headline stories and links to your content
Get updates on new news stories and web pages
Exactly like a Google search – but only new results each day
to get alerts when others
mention you online)
@EmilyCagle (http://twitter.com/EmilyCagle) took the various words used across 140 professional definitions of social media through http://www.wordle.net/ to create the tag cloud above.
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Keep a secure record of all administrator details for each social site.
Ensure multiple staff admins for each page that you create
Consider disabling comments if you will not be able to respond
Avoid linking to clients' profile pages if possible – especially vulnerable clients
Write an editorial policy for your organisation
Groundrules agreed by clients
Information that you wouldn’t mind if anyone saw
characters or less in a post
Twitter will automatically shorten web links
Allows us all to become publishers.
Easily personalised sites where people can write, upload media, and tell their own story.
Can be used to create D.I.Y websites easily and at no cost.
Wordpress and Blogger are the most popular
Many other sites link to twitter
information quickly
information quickly
There's a difference between a user profile and a page
Use pages for business use
Avoid ‘friending’ clients/service users – particularly children
Supported by Cosla through the Improvement Service
Social networking for Local authority staff and partner staff
Relatively closed and secure – but not private
Ning allows you to create your own 'closed' social network
It's functions are similar to Facebook, but you are only connected to a specific group of people (who you can invite).
You can create a ning network for a particular group or for your whole organisation.
https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk
area of work
your own blog
people's blogs
Although Facebook is the most well known site, and is hugely popular, there are many hundreds of sites that are Social media….
gavin.crosby@edinburgh.gov.uk
with any questions
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