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Tips on Tuesday

Last week we spoke about resharing content on Facebook in this post.

For today’s Tip we are visiting the same topic on Twitter. Last week, Twitter announced that they were making it possible for users to retweet their own content, which makes sharing your posts much easier.

Don’t be afraid to share your content again with a “have you seen this” or “we spoke about this here”. As long as you don’t spam your followers it is a perfectly valid marketing tool to ensure what you have said is seen.

Have you anything in particular you would like us to do a Tip on? Do let us know!

Tips on Tuesday

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This week is National Stalking Awareness Week and we want to support the amazing work Paladin do by giving you our tips to stay safe online. With the advent of social media, cyber stalking became a real and dangerous thread and it shouldn’t be underestimated how much damage online stalking can do. We have already written about children staying safe on social media in our blog here and indeed much of the advice is pertinent to adults too.

Here are our top tips to keep you safe online: –

Change your passwords regularly
Never share your passwords with anybody
Never give out personal information online
Keep your security and privacy settings on the highest possible setting
Never share your location – if you’re concerned about this make sure you set location services to off on your device.
Block unsolicited messages
Do not be afraid to report messages that are threatening in any way. You will be taken seriously

We hope you find today’s tip useful – please share amongst your friends and colleagues if you think it will be useful. If you are on Twitter join in this week using the hashtag #NSAW16.

Tips on Tuesday

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As fast as we plan tips to bring you, its time to write again!

Today’s tip focuses on making your social media accounts easily accessible. Ensure your social media icons are clearly visible on your website. Also, for those of you who use a free website building tool, make sure you change the social media accounts from those of the site host to your own. There is nothing worse for a customer than thinking “we’d really like to see what these people are saying” to find that when they try to follow you on Twitter or Facebook they find someone completely different. And, we have said this before, but ALWAYS make sure your social media accounts open in a new tab or window.

Half the battle is ensuring your methods for communication are visible. Remember no-one will know what you’re saying if they can’t find you!

See you next time!

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Hello all. We are all rejuvenated following a short break so we’re back with today’s tip and this is one that can apply to all social media channels.

I’m often asked by clients about the use of scheduling tools such as Hootsuite for social media posts and whether they’re a good idea.

I think that they can be a very useful tool IF you don’t rely solely on them. They’re very useful for standard messages but the beauty of social media is its spontaneity and I think you can lose the power to tap into breaking stories if you don’t check your social media feeds personally.

There has also been some controversy surrounding the use of scheduled posts during tragic world events. My take would be don’t let this put you off, but possibly discretion is the better part of valour and it may be wise to turn off scheduled posts if something major happens. At the end of the day whether you agree or not, you don’t want to be the subject of a social media rant about insensitivity, your social media profile has to be impeccable.

So my conclusion is, yes use them. But don’t rely on them and don’t lose that personal touch!

See you next time!

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A slightly different format to our usual Tips on Tuesday slot as today is Safer Internet Day. The safety of young people on the internet is one of our passions at Aire Media – in fact, we launched with a post about helping parents make sure their children are using Social media safely – so we thought we would #shareaheart with the wonderful people at the UK Safer Internet Centre and share our top tips for young people to stay safe online.

Never reveal your passwords to other people. Choose a password that is really strong by using a mix of letters and numbers. Make sure you change them regularly.
Make sure you think before you post. Never post anything you wouldn’t want your parents or teachers to read. As soon as you press send, the information/image is no longer private.
Be kind. If you think your post could upset someone, don’t post it.
Be really careful about what you share online. Don’t give clues about where you live in either the information or the images you post.
Make sure you check your privacy settings regularly. Bear in mind that you might think you’re only sharing something amongst close friends, but that isn’t always the case.
Be careful who you talk to online. If someone you don’t know tries to add you as a friend, ignore them and block them. Don’t give people online your address and phone number.

Social media platforms have an age limit for a reason. It is to keep young people safe. The people at Linneyville made this brilliant infographic giving details of the age limits across all social media channels.

We hope you enjoyed today’s slightly different Tips on Tuesday. If you would like to book Rachel to come talk to children or parents about staying safe online, please contact us here!

Twitter Launches the Moments Feature

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As you checked your Twitter feed in the last couple of days you may have noticed this icon: –

This week Twitter have launched their “Moments” feature in the UK for its 15 million users, which intends to bring Twitter users the “best” stories each day by means of a slide show. Curators will be collecting stories on a single subject into managed lists, which are then accessible by using the lightning bolt icon, which appears on your menu bar at the bottom of the Twitter app on a device and along the top of the screen on a desktop. Within the UK the Curators are a group of journalists together with 18 production partners including BuzzFeed, The Sun, Sky News, Sky Sports, BT Sports, Have I Got News For You and others from a wide range of areas.

The Moments tab will be divided into categories for further ease of use. In a blog post on the launch of Moments, Twitter said: –

“For stories that update very frequently – like live sporting events or awards shows where it’s critical to know what’s happening minute by minute – you’ll see an option to follow the Moment, which blends the Tweets directly into your timeline.

“That way you can keep track of the latest updates in real-time without having to tap back and forth between tabs. When that story ends, so do the Tweets, leaving your timeline just as it was before.”

The main advantage of the Moments feature is that you will see tweets from people – even if you don’t follow them – in a carefully collated list. You can then share or retweet the Moments as with any other tweet.

The UK is the first European country to adopt Moments and in the New Year, Promoted Moments will be available in order for businesses to use the feature in a profitable way.

Have you used Moments yet? Let us know your thoughts on arguably Twitter’s most important development since its advent in 2006.