International Women's Day Social Media
Follow Along Online
- Follow the international hashtags at #ChooseToChallenge and #IWD2021 on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Ohio University's local hashtag at #OhioUInternationalWomensDay. You can do this by typing the hashtag into the search bar on your social media platform. As people post on social media, these searches will populate with more pictures, videos and links.
- Find sponsoring organizations on Instagram and Twitter to see the content that they post. You can find them by inserting the following into the search bar, or click on the hyperlink to take you to their pages. Here are some folk that you can follow:
You can participate easily by posting to your own social media account. If you do not have a personal social media account, you may consider talking with folk (including your workplace) who have a social media account to see if they will post on your behalf. Please review these links for guidance on how to post to Twitter and Instagram. Twitter caps posts at 280 characters (for example, these last two sentences are 176 characters). You can create a "thread" that will allow you to post more. Instagram allows for 2,200 characters - but you may want to consider keeping your posts short for people to be able to easily digest them!
In the text that you write to accompany your post, be sure to include our hashtags: #ChooseToChallenge, #IWD2021 and #OhioUInternationalWomensDay. This will enable people to find your post easily!
Recording and uploading video
Posting videos can be super simple. Film yourself from your smart phone or through your webcam on your computer! For those of you associated with Ohio University, you can use Microsoft Teams to record!
You may find it easy to upload a video you've created to YouTube, and then to share that video on social media. Here's how you can create/upload a YouTube video, and how to share it on Twitter!
Disclaimer
The organizers of the International Women's Day online program at Ohio University are nonpartisan. We hope that this program, and programs like this, assist individuals in understanding women's rights locally and globally.
The views reflected in the posts by others using #ChooseToChallenge, #IWD2021 and/or #OhioUInternationalWomensDay, or otherwise in connection to the community sharing of content for this event, do not reflect the views of the organizers or of Ohio University. Everyone is welcome to participate from their own viewpoints and perspectives.
Copyright: As you share, please be mindful of copyright materials. For whatever you share that you don't have ownership of, you should check to see if the material is in public domain. Cornell University has a helpful table in determining what material is in public domain. Ohio University also has this helpful website on fair use of imagery.
Risks of Sharing: Sharing online has risks, including (but not limited to) online bullying, permanence by way of screenshots and retweeting, and other responses that we can't predict. While you can report bullying or trolling behavior(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window) through Twitter, there are reports(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window) that Twitter does not act quickly enough to respond to these issues. As such, please consider that we have events like this because in many ways we still exist within a culture in which people face racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and other forms of oppression. Therefore, responses to our event may not always be positive and we may face backlash.