Social media is a great way to promote the activities of your group and generate interest in your offerings. Social media services offer publicity opportunities and are also places to foster online communities.
You can add links on your homepage to your accounts on popular social media sites such as Facebook © and Twitter © using the standardized presentation format seen on several areas of the UVM website including the About UVM and Student Life sections.
To add the links and icons to your home page include your account name or link in your defaultmenu.html or magicoptions.html file as follows:
In defaultmenu.html:
| 0 | My Site | email=My.Department@uvm.edu,facebook=http://www.facebook.com/myfacebookname |
In magicoptions.html:
| mytwitteracct |
The UVM web publishing system is also designed to work with Google Analytics. You simply need to sign up for an analytics account from Google, there you need only get your account number which usually has a form of UA-xxxxxxx-1 (we'll take care of all that other coding stuff). Add this account number to the defaultmenu.html on all the websites that you wish to track, you may also use a magicoptions.html file to add your analytics account. After about 24 hours, you should begin to receive data at your Google account. We recommend setting up several administrators, perhaps including a departmental account, so that the account can be accessed by someone else in the department in the event of an emergency. Adding the analytics accounts is similar to adding the social media accounts, the code is included on all your web pages but is not visually apparent.
In defaultmenu.html:
| 0 | My Site | email=My.Department@uvm.edu,analytics=UA-xxxxxxx-1 |
In magicoptions.html:
| analytics | UA-xxxxxxx-1 |
Last modified July 06 2009 03:16 PM
