Using Social Media to help people to

help each other

Sue Beckingham | Sheffield Hallam UniversityInvited Keynote Speaker

Our Sheffield Neighbourhood Watch

How can social media help?

Posts on Facebook can be sharedPosts on Twitter can be retweeted

shared messages

wider community

reach

Communities can create a 'ripple effect' using social media

reaching much further than you might expect

Via:• personal profiles• pages• groups

Profile:

Page:

Group:

enable public figures, businesses, organizations and other entities to create an authentic and public presence on Facebook. 

allow people to come together around a common cause, issue or activity to organise, express objectives, and discuss issues.

this is a user's personal page, listing their friends, interests, group memberships, and recent activity on the site.

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Profile:

Page:

Group:

Visible to everyone on the internet by default. Anyone can like a Page, receive their updates and interact with them.

Option to make it publicly available for anyone to join, require administrator approval or keep it private and invitation only.

Users can control which parts of their profile are visible to others. Choose to share with friends, friends of friends, or the public.

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Public Tweets

Protected Tweets

Accounts with protected Tweets require manual approval of each and every person who may view that account's Tweets. 

Anyone can view public Tweets and follow you, however you do have the option to block followers. Users can send private direct messages to those who follow them.

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Public Tweets

Protected Tweets

Tweets are only be visible to your approved Twitter followers.

Tweets are visible to anyone, whether or not they have a Twitter account. (the default setting)

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Community Sharing

Follow on

https://www.facebook.com/Watchsheffield Follow by liking the page

Interacting with posts

Choose to:• Like a post• Comment on a post• Share a post

"One of my neighbours was at home and spotted a couple of dodgy blokes hanging about. She messaged the group and someone else looked out and noticed same blokes had moved and were round the back of our row of houses. One of them then contacted the police, who arrived to find said blokes halfway up the adjoining field with a laptop and various other things belonging to another neighbour. Shortly after that my neighbour who had been burgled, for the second time, set up the neighbourhood watch and the Facebook Group. I used it the other night when we spotted someone trying next doors van."

https://www.facebook.com/onlinesheffield

https://www.facebook.com/missingpeople.uk

https://www.facebook.com/southyorkshirepolice

TwitterCommunity Sharing

Follow on Twitter

https://twitter.com/WatchSheffield

Twitter

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Think before you post

Stay Safe on

Know how to edit your Privacy Settings

Think carefully about personal information you share via social media

Don't publically share• email addresses• phone numbers• postal address• any banking information

Don't advertise you are going away on holiday

Don't openly share you are expecting delivery of valuable items

Don't share your password

Consider other ways to communicate personal or private messages

Sheffield • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Watchsheffield• Twitter: https://twitter.com/WatchSheffield

National• Website: http://www.ourwatch.org.uk/• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourwatch• Twitter: https://twitter.com/N_Watch

• https://www.facebook.com/safety/• https://support.twitter.com/articles/76036-s

afe-tweeting-the-basics• https://www.getsafeonline.org/• http://www.staysafeonline.org/• http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/• http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/topics/safet

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