Social media is a fantastic tool for connecting with PFLAG members and others who need PFLAG's support in your community. However, understanding how to create space for a respectful exchange of ideas on your Facebook page, Twitter feed, or Instagram can be tough.
One of our key goals is to help you take the information that you learned in this session and use it to make your chapter stronger and more effective. To do that, we’ve created this page to provide you with tools, resources, and references to materials mentioned in the workshop. As always, the PFLAG National staff is here to help. If you have any questions, comments, or just need some good advice, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Links to helpful resources:
- Facebook Tools for Addressing Abuse: https://www.facebook.com/help/359033794168099/
- Twitter Tools for Reporting Abuse: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169998
- The Ultimate Cheat Sheet of Photo & Image Sizes on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Other Social Networks: https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-image-sizes-guide/
- You can’t escape debate: How to approach social media management during election time (Note: Although this is an Australian-based site, it has excellent information, especially for the upcoming election season): https://www.smartcompany.com.au/marketing/social-media/moderating-during-election-time/
Links to PFLAG National on social media:
Confirmation Bias and Media Resources:
- A great resource from the Consortium for Media Literacy: https://www.medialit.org/sites/default/files/connections/Confirmation%20Bias%20and%20Media%20Literacy.pdf
- The “Baloney Detection Kit”: https://michaelshermer.com/2009/06/baloney-detection-kit/
- The Digital Nudge: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdata.2019.00011/full
- The Decision Lab: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/confirmation-bias
- Jessie Smith, Cover Up, Your Confirmation Bias is showing: https://medium.com/swlh/cover-up-your-confirmation-bias-is-showing-9ff380d21925
PFLAG Academy Online On-Demand Session:
- Moderate Moderating: https://pflag.org/socialmediarecording
Facebook:
- Creating a nonprofit page on FB: https://socialgood.fb.com/learning-support/getting-started/create-a-page-for-your-nonprofit/
- Pages help for FB: https://www.facebook.com/help/282489752085908/?helpref=hc_fnav
Twitter:
- Building your Twitter follower list - a great suggestion list: https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-get-twitter-followers/
Instagram:
- Getting Started on IG: https://business.instagram.com/getting-started/
- Setting up a Business Account on IG: https://www.facebook.com/business/profiles
- Beginners Guide on IG for Businesses: https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/lessons/a-beginners-guide-to-instagram-for-business
- How to use IG Stories: https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-use-instagram-stories/
Additional Helpful Tools:
Canva: Great tool (free or low-price monthly subscription) for creating BEAUTIFUL art. Has a variety of layout options, plus lets you save your own images, fonts, colors, and more. Photoshop for people who don’t use Photoshop!
