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Week Six: Unit Three - Social Media Policies, Security, and Privacy

February 24-March 2

Lesson

"Live (online) as if a thief is watching."

How Privacy Vanishes Online

Required Readings- In addition to - please note additional readings

•    U.S. Army Social Media Security Briefing (Click link to download.)

•    EDUCAUSE, 2006, A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking

•    ZDNET, 2012, The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

Optional Reading, Review & Consider:

•    National Labor Relations Board's Report on Social Media Policy (2012).

◦                     Click here and click here to read two articles about the NLRB's report. 

◦                     Click here for a report on the sample social media template recommended by NLRB General Counsel.

•    Internet 2 Wiki, Tips for Safe and Secure Social Networking

◦                     Also consider Internet 2's Information Security Guide.

•    U.S Federal Trade Commission, Computer and Internet Privacy and Security Resource Page

•    Microsoft, 11 Tips for Social Networking Safety

•    McAfee, 15 Social Media Security Tips

•    Symantec, Security Response, Ghostnet - Backdoor at Click of a Button. Watch this short video to see how easy it is for a hacker to access your unprotected computer and plant viruses, malware, spyware, etc.

Check your social media security. Before posting this week, open the following links and use the security guidelines to ensure you have applied the appropriate settings to your social media sites to protect your privacy and security:

•    Blogger (blog): https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/42673?hl=en

•    Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/14016-about-public-and-protected-tweets

•    Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/136445063681977550/

•  Facebook: http://www.yahoo.com/tech/you-better-watch-out-how-to-set-up-your-facebook-70505754667.html

Other Items

Blog Discussions & Social Media Management. Heidi and I will have returned our assessments of your Week 3 blog discussion and social media management assignments by the time you begin your Week 6 blogging and social media management. Please refer to our feedback in Assignments for tips to improve your performance. We were pleased with your performance on these assignments, overall. We recommend, however, that you consider the following areas for improvement:

1. Write for the Web, not for traditional media. Your approach to writing text for a paper assignment (or even a discussion Forum post) won't work when writing for blogs and other Web-based media. For instance, write in small "chunks of information" and use bullets when writing for the Web, instead of writing in longer sentences and paragraphs as you would in a paper; and use headings to organize your chunks, and make it easier for readers to navigate your material. I urge you to read the attached chapter about writing for the Web by Holtz (2002). You can find the entire book in the Marist eBrary.

2. Optimize your blogs for search engines. Many of you neglected to optimize your blog post with keywords, videos, and hyperlinks. Read this set of tips from Mashable to increase search traffic to your blog. Pay particular attention to Items 4 (ethical linking) and 5 (generating keywords). Have you thought about asking classmates to include a link to your blog in their blog posts, tweets, or pins -- in exchange for you inserting links to their blogs in your posts, pins, and tweets? Help each other out. 

Office Hours:

•    Mark: Tuesday, 8:00-9:00 p.m., designated iLearn chat room

Heidi: Wednesday, 8:30-9:30 p.m., designated iLearn chat room

Attachments

 Holtz (2002), Writing for the Web.pdf

Thank you,

Joanna