Month: June 2020

Features:

 Instagram uses hashtags # similar to Twitter

 For each post you can use up to 30 hashtags although it would be more appropriate to choose only the most relevant ones

Photos and brief text are allowed

It is possible to include emojis in your posts

Remember to share high-resolution photos and create useful and visually appealing contents that will make users to follow your profile

Instagram uses Handle  @

Handles are unique user name mainly used to identify a person or a project’s account. 

     They always starts with the @ symbol, followed by a name or phrase to identify the account.

     They are used to send a direct reply to someone, by starting your message with their handle. 

     Useful to link to someone else’s account (known as a ‘mention’) by using their handle elsewhere in your post. This will link your post to the mentioned user’s account.

·         Instagram uses  “stories”

Instagram Stories (or Ig Stories) are  photos and short videos you could insert in your profile, have a limited publication of 24 hours and could be enriched with music, stickers, GIFS and even polls.

The project’s consortium should create a or few project hashtags to group conversations related to your topic to boost your research with the right audience. Using a hashtag makes the keyword or phrase in the post searchable. It is like a label that clusters and links similar content, the same way keywords do when scientific papers are published. 

On Facebook users share thoughts, opinions, photos, videos, images, which can only be seen by people users indicate as “friends” and who can comment and respond to everything we publish.

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• Users can link your FB account to other socials like Instagram or even Youtube so you can increase your followers numbers and their likes      Facebook group: Mostly used for exchanges among members (individuals). Unlike Facebook pages, where only the page administrator can post, anybody previously approved can share content with the group.Sample EU Facebook pages:
• · https://www.facebook.com/FET.europe
• · https://www.facebook.com/DigitalSingleMarket
• · https://www.facebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions
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• Facebook page: The most convenient way to promote your project on Facebook, allowing you to post a variety of content including pictures, videos, event invitations or reports, as well as links to presentations or available multimedia material. Facebook pages have fans who like the page, not friends. A page has also the advantage to allow for several nominated users under different types of profiles (admin, editor, reviewer).
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• Teaser paragraphs must really grab the reader’s attention quickly (you only have 3 seconds)

How Can I Use it?

To share short comments, make
announcements that can instantaneously reach a large audience or retweet
relevant content. 

How Can I networking?

Building a social media community that shares the same interests and is involved in similar projects is crucial for boosting the visibility of your content and increasing the number of people who read your posts.

Users can do this by:

• Retweeting (sharing a tweet)
• replying to others’ tweets 
• quote-tweeting information about your project
• start an online discussion, e.g. by asking questions.
• Share images and tag other Twitter accounts (up to 10), to build a relationship with your audience and make them aware (the account tagged receives a notification) of content that might interest them, in the hope that they might want to retweet it.

Features:

• Text of only 280 characters this excludes media attachments (photos, images, videos, etc.) and quoted tweets (displaying someone else’s tweet within your own) but includes links (a URL is always altered to 23 characters).
• Videos of 140 seconds duration
• Uses hashtag # (descriptors).
• Twitter brings the words all together (for example #EuProjectsNews)
• Timing: A tweet can last up to 5 hours and 15 minutes
• Users can use Twitter groups to cluster a group of projects on a similiar topic
• Uses Handle  @Unique user name mainly used to identify a person or a project’s account.  It always starts with the @ symbol, followed by a name or phrase to identify the account.
• For example, the European Commission’s Twitter handle is @EU_Commission Offical EU Twitter profile: European Commission @EU_Commission; European Parlament @Europarl_EN etc.
  It is possible to include emojis in your tweets.

• • It is not a social network in the strict sense of the term
  • It is a portal that allows anyone to share videos, although in recent years many people use it as if it were a social networks by commenting videos, subscribing to channels etc.
  • If you publish a video on Youtube, and you optimize with SEO strategies, you can place it also on Google for a few keywords
  • https://www.youtube.com/EUScienceInnovation
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/Horizon2020YourViews
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/EuropeanResearchArea