Hello everyone,
This is just a quick note to let everyone know that as part of the current building works at the university, the Online Media Development Team will be moving to the ground floor of Bridge House as of 4th September.
We will be in the process of packing before that and should hopefully be back to operational readiness by 11th of September.
Thank you for your patience.
Video Guides
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In addition to our Help Guides page, we have also created a few video guides to help staff get started with blogs and social media.
These short guides provide a visual walk-through of setting-up a new blog on the university blog network, enabling some advanced features for blogs, as well as using tools such as Tweetdeck, IFTTT, and Trello to help organise your social media and working processes.
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Help Guides
We currently have a range of help guides on the site aimed at helping staff in the creation of content for research blogs and social media.
In these we condense a lot of tips and tricks into bite-sized snippets to help you get the best out of your online content. As of now these help guides include:
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The Online Content Strategy
Back in September at the College Open Day I introduced the College’s Online Media Strategy; a document that set’s out our vision for external facing media over the next few years which will include all websites and blogs, social media, video, photography, digital signage, and speculative areas such as augmented/virtual reality.
Academic Blogging Part 5: Useful resources for bloggers
Now you have your posts ready to go, you have ideas for more, and you know when you’ll be posting and where you’ll be sharing them to in order to make sure they get as much reach as possible. The next and final thing to talk about are the resources you can use.
One of the biggest pitfalls bloggers face is accidentally infringing copyright, such as using images from a google search without checking whether they are copyrighted or not, or forgetting to credit authors. There are ways around this though.