RebelMouse is a newish digital platform that serves to aggregate the user's social media content that is published across platforms. There is a paid and a free version. Large media outlets use the additional functionality provided in the paid version to curate UGC, or user-generated content in sophisticated ways. The free version, however, has some great features of its own and provides a great way for individuals to capture their own content with a quality design sensibility.
This tutorial tells you how to sign up for a RebelMouse account; how to add social media profiles to your account; considerations to think through when determining which accounts to add; and how to embed the RebelMouse code on your personally hosted site if you wish to do so. This is part of a larger article about RebelMouse which can be viewed at http://kaleyperkins.com/amplify-your-social-media-content-reach-using-rebelmouse/.
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1. Curate Your
Content with
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Amplify your reach.
Automate the aggregation
of your own social media
content with RebellMouse.
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Deciding Which Profiles to Add
Considerations:
Reputation management: If you are using
RebelMouse professionally, don’t link to sites where
you post pictures of kittens – unless you are an
purveyor of vegan, gluten free cat treats.
Keep in mind some of your social media profiles may
be linked. If I post on my FB page, it automatically
posts to Twitter. RebelMouse is good at catching
redundancies, but test it before you let it fully fly
without bird-dogging it a bit.
If unsure, select ‘save to draft’ as you link your
profiles. This gives you the ability to manually post the
content that RebelMouse pulls in. (More on that
when I show you how I added Pinterest.)
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Add Social Profiles on This Page
My primary social media links are already created, so this is just an
example of what your page will look like. (Notice a feature is free
now that they will charge for later…)
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Let’s Add My Pinterest
RebelMouse now hosts Pinterest. I try to cite and provide links to all content, but
I can’t guarantee I was doing that when I started over a year ago. Let’s add
the platform in anyway. So scrolling down the page…
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Controlling Which Content Shows
In my last slide, I told you how I feel sketchy about adding
Pinterest pins to my RebelMouse site. Some considerations:
• Pinterest is a more personal social media platform for
me, and I want to use RebelMouse for my professional
content.
• I don’t want my RebelMouse page to be flooded with
images of zentangles or owls or my encompassing love of
all things fort.
• I do have some professional Pinterest boards I would like to
be able to pull content from.
• I want to be able to control what content I add from
Pinterest to RebelMouse.
The next slide will show how to do that.
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Pinterest Has Been Added
Pinterest has been added AND I can control if I want content to post
directly to my RebelMouse page. I don’t. I want it to go into a holding
pot so I can make that decision manually later. I hit the ‘save to draft’
button.
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Ways to Promote Content
You can either direct people to your aggregated content which
appears to be a website hosted RebelMouse or you can embed that
content onto your own personally hosted website. Or both.
Direct
to RebelMouse.
Embed
Both
code on your own site.
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How RebelMouse Site Appears:
This is what my content looks like if I go straight to my page on
RebelMouse. Incidently, check out the tweet I just composed.
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How Embed Code Appears
Here is RebelMouse content when I embed the code on my site. This
is a basic explanation. If I were going to use RebelMouse as my
primary site, I would alter the appearance of my WordPress website.
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Site Before We Embed RebelMouse
Let’s back up. Check out the tabs. This is what my site looked like
before I added RebelMouse code. No home for RebelMouse. We
need to fix that. First we are going to make a new Page. Then we are
going to add that Page to our menu bar between ‘Home’ and
‘Culture.’
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How to Embed Code on WordPress
There’s more than one way. I created a separate page in
WordPress, and I added that page to my menu bar. First, let’s make a
new page.
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Adding a Page on WordPress
Go to your WordPress dashboard and add a Page. I named mine
Rebel Mouse. Publish the page. Now you need to add it to your
menu bar.
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Find the Code on RebelMouse
We have our new Page. Now, let’s go to RebelMouse to find the
code we will install on it!
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Generate Your Code with Settings
RebelMouse allows you to tweak the code. I left it as default
because I don’t know how it’s going to look yet. Following these steps
I can change it if I need to. Click the button to generate the code.
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Grab Your Newly Generated Code
After you generate the code, it will appear on the bottom of the
screen. You may have to scroll to find it. Select it all and copy it to
your clipboard. Now let’s return to our new Page in WordPress and
add it!
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Add Your Code to WordPress
Now let’s return to the newly created WordPress Page we made for
Rebel Mouse and add the embed code to it! (Your screen may still
read ‘Add Page.’ Mine says ‘Edit Page’ because I did this step later.)
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Find Your Menu Bar
We made a new Page and added our embedded RebelMouse
code. Let’s add it to our menu bar. On your WordPress dashboard,
navigate to your menu bar. It is under the tab ‘Appearance.’
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Add New Page to Your Menu
You created your ‘RebelMouse’ Page. Now you need to add it to
your menu bar. Click it. Then Save Changes.
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Re-position on Menu Bar
Your new ‘RebelMouse’ Page will show at bottom of ‘Menu Structure’
list. Grab it and pull it where you want it. Save changes.
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There you have it!
This is a very basic tutorial that assumes quite a bit of practice
working with the WordPress dashboard. RebelMouse and WordPress
are both powerful content promotion platforms. Tutorials abound on
YouTube and on each of the platforms’ sites.
As with any social media platform, the best thing you can do is take
a weekend and experiment.
I see great possibility for the free version of RebelMouse to be a
solutions for both independent journalists and bloggers who are trying
to leverage both their time and their content. The paid version has
some fantastic features for more sophisticated curation of UGC (usergenerated content), but may be prohibitively priced for individuals
just starting out.
I hope this has been useful to you, and I welcome comments at
www.kaleyperkins.com. Or by email at kaleydperkins at gmail dot
com.