Safe Use of Social Media

Some suggestions of where to start can be found here.

Social Media covers a number of different platforms. Some ideas for how to investigate what is best for you can be found  in this document  (you may need to create an account to view the pdf). 

Some specific strategies for how to use different platforms are available in this page: developing-a-social-media-strategy-for-your-classroom .

This training is just going to focus on some fundamental steps that will help keep you safe, particularly when using Twitter and Facebook.

1. Separate Home & Work

2. Set 'Home' privacy as high as possible (this is possible in Twitter and Facebook)

3. Be aware of hidden connections (Friends of Friends etc)

4. Avoid 'closed' networks. 

5. Create Pages and Groups rather than 'Friending'.

6. Do not 'Follow Back'.

7. Use hashtags to create soft, open,  networks and collections. Although be careful with composite hashtags (See: #Susanalbumparty: Top five Twitter hashtag PR disasters )

8. Do not use private messaging - this includes personal emails, messaging services.