The Blue Highlighter: Edition 3
It is time again to pick up a few social media tips and
tricks from “The Art of Social Media.” This will be the last installment of The Blue Highlighter since I will be
moving on to my next textbook and I plan on switching to yellow. That being
said, lets learn a little more about social media and the ways to use it
effectively.
Chapter 11 shared a variety of tips that
most people have never heard of and they might be a little surprising. The
first is the ability to stylize text in Google+ posts. This adds drama and is
easy to do. The commands are simple and easy to remember.
Bold by adding asterisks on each side:
*text*
Use italics by adding an underscore on each
side: _text_
The next tip is effective for the
workplace. LinkedIn is essential for anyone in the professional world. Since it
is a more polished social media platform it is important that it reflects
that. Leaving the generic “I’d like to add you to my professional network on
LinkedIn” message is not very professional and should be updated. Since I
started college I have heard numerous times how important LinkedIn is and this
is a tip I will definitely take and use. It is more inviting and simply looks like
more effort has been put into making it look good.
The easiest tip of the chapter
would be the idea of tagging people in photos on Twitter. This helps increase
engagement since everyone who is tagged is notified. Plus it does not take away
from the 140 character count which most of the time does not seem like a lot.
If getting retweets, quotes and likes is the goal, this tip is the one to use.
Hopefully these tips are easy to
implement and help aid the journey to better, more effective social media. I
will be ready to delve into more tricks next week.
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