Exploring Hidden Histories: Sharing Online & Social Media
The moment of truth: when you share your creative masterpiece with the world. There are a wide range of web fora through which you can share what you have produced - use as many as possible to get it shared as widely as possible, and who knows - perhaps your story might 'go viral'!
Top Tips for Sharing
- Atttract the audience with an informative / interesting title, description and main image before you share your piece - as these will be the things that are displayed when you share, so need to prick their interest so they read your content!
- Invest time in adding search tags (eg #RememberingforPeace, #WomenWarPeace), keywords (eg #Peace, #Heritage) and handles (eg @WalesforPeace, @CymrudrosHeddwch, @WCIA_Wales) so that people can find your piece, and relevant organisations are notified so they can see / share / promote it.
- Be mindful of copyright: your product shoud be your own original material, or you should have permissions to share footage such as interviews or archive material (eg Youtube guidelines). When you share your product on social media, for maximum sharing you should select 'Creative Commons' (this means you 'license' anyone to share or use your product). Note your personal copyright usually passes to the publisher.
- Don't forget to start by sharing it first with your own friends and social media contacts, and ask them to promote it.
WCIA Voices Blog
Share your Hidden History on our official Wales for Peace blog! If you have written an article or have an idea for one, follow the linked guidelines and send us your piece.
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Peace Map of Wales
From WW1 Soldiers Stories to Peacebuilders Today, all the stories, multimedia, opinions and ideas come together on WCIA's Peace Map of Wales. Make your mark so others can see!
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Flickr & Instagram (Photo)
Flickr & Instagram are the leading photo management and sharing applications, enabling open sharing of high quality / resolution images and organisation into albums and groups.
Intro & How to use Flickr Getting Most out of Flickr Wales for Peace Flickr
Youtube and Vimeo (Video)
YouTube and Vimeo are the leading video hosting websites, which allow users to upload, view, share, add to favorites, comment and subscribe to other users. You can also convert video to editable formats.
Soundcloud and Podcasting
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created audio recordings, podcasts and music.
Wales for Peace Soundcloud Soundcloud Guidance & Podcasting Other Podcasts
File stores / transfers (documents & large files)
You may have large documents that you need to link to your article, but are too large a file to upload to attach on normal social media.
Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows users to create profiles, share / 'like' photos, video and articles, create & manage events, send messages and promote / advertise.
WfP Facebook Facebook Guidance
Twitter is a free social networking 'microblogging' service that allows members to broadcast short posts (called tweets). Through using tags, user handles and keywords, these can be seen and shared widely.
Wales for Peace Twitter Twitter Guidance
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online reference encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people who use it. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia - and you can become a contributor, or add content to articles.
Contributor Guidelines National Library of Wales - Wikipedia Programme & Training
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia is a file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone in their own language.
Intro to Wikimedia Commons How to Use
