The Social Butterfly Challenge

 

A challenge! Earn a badge!

This challenge is deceptively easy. For some of you it may be really easy, but many of us are kind of shy at heart (hi! that's me!). Still, we also tend to like a little interaction as well as recognition for our work.  Every performer needs an audience, right?

With that in mind, let's practice being social butterflies.

WHAT TO DO:

To earn this badge you must:

1. Comment on at least 3 different peer blogs (the class blog doesn't count) that you have not yet commented on previously.
2. Engage with people in two other spaces (Instagram, X/Twitter, LinkedIn), whether people from this class or elsewhere.
3. Write a blog post on your blog that refers to and links to those same three blog posts and embeds the interactions on other platforms. 
• Weave your evidence into your narrative on that post or tell us why we want to check out these posts or accounts.

BADGE AWARDING

Vanessa and Jae will be monitoring blogs for the posts. Help us out -- title the post "Social Butterfly Challenge" or otherwise indicate that you're doing the challenge at the top of your post.

NEED HELP EMBEDDING Twitter or Linked In?

Look for the three dots on the top right of a post and click on them.

Then you'll get a menu like this. Look for the option to embed and follow along from there to get your embed code.

Take the code and go into HTML mode in your blogger window. This is the trickiest part. Drop in the code where you want the tweet to show up, and then head back to compose view.

The embedded tweet will look like this:

Hey there #eme6414 ... it's time for the social butterfly challenge. Details on blog. pic.twitter.com/Trz2daJj7H

— Vanessa Dennen (@vdennen) May 28, 2024

How about Instagram? Well ... it doesn't always work, but it does sometimes. I have luck on a browser but not the mobile app. Here's info on embedding an Instagram post.