How to add social media badges to your UP personnel web page

Overview

1.Why do this?– Just a justification why I think all personnel should

tinker on their staff pages.

2.How to do this? (To skip directly to here, go to Instructions)

– Finding your staff web page, finding social media badges etc., and changing your page either via the WYSIWYG tools, or editing the HTML.

3.Who should be reading this?– Anyone who has some presence on a content

management system for a large organization (in terms of a University, a staff page)

Why do this?

Many years ago, I imagined what people would do if my name came up in a conversation and there were a web access point at hand.

So I (as many others) Googled myself. I’ve been checking in over the past few years (before Googling was the term for “using a search engine”).

This year, I noticed my web presence is as follows:

(Check the slide notes for an explanation of how I reacted to each listing)

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My web presence

Several of those sites I’m mentioned in (e.g. LinkedIn and WAYN), I never gave explicit, written consent (though the data gathering mechanisms were perfectly legal).

So why do I still use social media (proof next slide)?1) I’d rather have my web presence be controlled by

me, not anyone else. Insert arguments about identity curation vs. true knowledge collection here...

2) Integrating social media into my life has been a great experience (though not without its dangers)

I expect people to Google me anyways – why not make my staff page more valuable by allowing people to add me to their existing social media life?

So, why do I still use social media?

So, why do I still use social media?

My personnel page, round #1

First step: added Google+ and Twitter widgets.

I don’t recommend starting with social media widgets; rather, basic hyperlinking as in the next slide:

My personnel page, round #2

Instructions

How to add social media badges to your

personnel page*

* Check slide notes for a disclaimer

1. Finding your page manager

3. Editing your actual staff page

3. Editing the content of your staff page

What can I do when editing my staff page?

For instance, I hyperlinked the terms used in my research topic.

Word-like editing

Editing the HTML (source)

Remember the following

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3714

Adding a social media badge to your staff page

1) Get the HTML code2) Find a spot to paste code in your source view

3) Save, preview

1) Get the HTML code

1) Which social networks do you use?–Facebook–Twitter–Google+–Linkedin

2) Each should have a badge you can use.3) Or you can use a badge generator service

1) Get the HTML code

1)Which social networks do you use?2) Each should have a badge you can use:Twitter: https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgetsFacebook:http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/Google+:http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/+1/button/index.html

3) Or you can use a badge generator service

Though I personally don’t; I can manage my badges just fine myself and don’t want to register for yet another service.

Adding a social media badge to your staff page

1) Get the HTML code – Check!2) Paste code in your source view3) Save, preview

2) Find a spot to paste code in your source view

Google+

Twitter

Adding a social media badge to your staff page

1) Get the HTML code – Check!2) Paste code in your source view – Check!3) Save, preview

3) Save, preview

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3714

Adding a social media badge to your staff page

1) Get the HTML code – Check!2) Paste code in your source view – Check!3) Save, preview – Check!

That’s pretty much it!If you want help with this, contact

me

http://bit.ly/keloff