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Sharing community content on social media

Anil A - Mod

Hi all,

I'm starting this thread to try and test the waters regarding sharing community content externally. 

Before I joined, it was semi-regular practice to tweet out (or Facebook update) a link to interesting discussions going on in the community. Everything on the community is public & viewable without requiring an account, so it's a useful way to encourage our followers to join the conversations here. It's also a good way to get the helpful information onto our different networks.

Do any of you have any concerns around this?

  

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  • Sorry if I was unclear, having re-read my post I can see where it might lack clarity. Currently there aren't any links to our community on the NAS social media channels, except for when I recommend to someone they may find it beneficial to join - say if someone comments on our Facebook looking to speak to other parents.

    What I propose is for me to take a link to any interesting conversation and tweet/post about it. This was semi-regular practice before I joined and is very common among online communities, in particular Mumsnet who use this with great success. Good example here https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152134752824025&set=a.154473949024.111191.146972519024&type=1&stream_ref=10

    For instance I'd probably do something like this

    "Interesting conversation happening on community about getting to sleep. Why not visit *Link to thread* to join in"

    It's likely this would just trigger conversation on our social media pages, which is useful for our followers. A small number of people who see the post may choose to join the community and contribute, which would be wonderful. 

    At the moment, the community doesn't have a lot of visibility on the NAS website (we're working on improving this) and this would help us grow. Given that most of our followers on social media are following us because they have an interest in autism, or the NAS, it's very unlikely we'd have more trolls/spam coming in.

    I wouldn't say this would give any of you a presence on social media. Those sites won't have your details or know anything about you. If you're worried we'll be plugging the community into social media, that's not the case at all.

    Intenseworld - Thank you for pointing out the google thing, you're exactly right on that. I feel I should mention the wider public in this instance are NAS followers (parents, adults on the spectrum,etc) , who have an interest in autism.  There won't be a way of identifying you, especially as you respect the anonymity of the site. 

    DaisyGirl & Intenseworld, really appreciate the feedback, I'll hold off and wait to hear from anyone else who wants to comment. I'd try to take care in what threads I choose, and would be the usual topics probably (Sleep, diagnosis, etc). I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has any thoughts on how to go about this in a way that would make them feel comfortable. 


     


     

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  • Sorry if I was unclear, having re-read my post I can see where it might lack clarity. Currently there aren't any links to our community on the NAS social media channels, except for when I recommend to someone they may find it beneficial to join - say if someone comments on our Facebook looking to speak to other parents.

    What I propose is for me to take a link to any interesting conversation and tweet/post about it. This was semi-regular practice before I joined and is very common among online communities, in particular Mumsnet who use this with great success. Good example here https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152134752824025&set=a.154473949024.111191.146972519024&type=1&stream_ref=10

    For instance I'd probably do something like this

    "Interesting conversation happening on community about getting to sleep. Why not visit *Link to thread* to join in"

    It's likely this would just trigger conversation on our social media pages, which is useful for our followers. A small number of people who see the post may choose to join the community and contribute, which would be wonderful. 

    At the moment, the community doesn't have a lot of visibility on the NAS website (we're working on improving this) and this would help us grow. Given that most of our followers on social media are following us because they have an interest in autism, or the NAS, it's very unlikely we'd have more trolls/spam coming in.

    I wouldn't say this would give any of you a presence on social media. Those sites won't have your details or know anything about you. If you're worried we'll be plugging the community into social media, that's not the case at all.

    Intenseworld - Thank you for pointing out the google thing, you're exactly right on that. I feel I should mention the wider public in this instance are NAS followers (parents, adults on the spectrum,etc) , who have an interest in autism.  There won't be a way of identifying you, especially as you respect the anonymity of the site. 

    DaisyGirl & Intenseworld, really appreciate the feedback, I'll hold off and wait to hear from anyone else who wants to comment. I'd try to take care in what threads I choose, and would be the usual topics probably (Sleep, diagnosis, etc). I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has any thoughts on how to go about this in a way that would make them feel comfortable. 


     


     

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