Using social media on your travels

 

1.Who am I? 2.Facebook for travellers3.Travelling with Twitter4.Blogging your trip5.Bonus social media: Travel with Instagram 6.Final questions and wrap-up.

Using social media on your travels

 

 

A travelling, blogging social media addict!

Facebook for travellers

Set up or optimise your page before you go: • check privacy settings• know who your friends are• set a good password 

Travel and share: • status updates• place check-ins• photographs• new friends• messages

 

 

 

Travelling with Twitter

Get used to using Twitter some time before you go: • follow your friends and interesting strangers• ask for travel tips from others on Twitter• find your favourite smartphone Twitter app• identify useful #hashtags for your trip

Travel and share: • travel updates• new and strange• photos - TwitPics• direct messages

  

 

Blogging your trip

Set up a blog before you go: • use a free platform like Blogger or Wordpress• learn how to write posts and add photos• send the web address of your blog to your friends

Travel and share: • daily (or less frequent) updates - highlights• add photos• include website links to places you've been, stayed

or eaten at• reply to comments people leave

http://www.notaballerina.com/2012/01/tasmania-with-toddler-tasman-peninsula.html

 

http://indietravelpodcast.com/travel-diary/travel-diary-prague-austria/

 

Travel with Instagram

Instagram is perfect for smartphone users: • set up an account (free) before you leave• available for iPhone, Android• Instagram is rapidly becoming popular

Travel and share: • make average photos look great (and fun)• auto-feed them to Facebook or Twitter• email them directly to people• other Instagram users can follow you

  

 

How

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