In order to repost on some of the major social platforms, you’ll want to follow these guidelines: Facebook When you repost, all of the details should carry over (including the author’s name or username), so there’s little or no additional information you’ll need to provide to give proper credit. The most common way to cite your sources on social media is by reposting original content.
Giving credit on social media is fairly easy to do across all platforms. It doesn’t hurt to over credit, but it does to under credit. When in doubt, include as much information about the author as possible. If you are citing a book within your blog post, you will want to include the author, the title of the book, and their statement in quotation marks like the example below. When including a direct quote, you’ll want to make sure to include quotation marks, the author’s name, and a link to the article from which it was pulled.Īs you can see from one of our previous blogs, we not only quoted Katie Lewis, but we also included the company she works for, her title, and linked the recent interview from which we found the quote.
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By mentioning and hyperlinking the website of the original source, we are giving them full credit and also adding validity to our statement. In this particular instance, we rewrote the information in our own words and made sure it was clear where we sourced it from. You can see an example of how we did this from one of our recent blog posts below. The most common way we cite our sources (whether it be an article or a website) within our blogs is by paraphrasing and hyperlinking back to the page where the information originated. inserting a visual or infographic that you didn’t createīasically, for anything you didn’t write yourself, you’ll want to attribute it to whoever did.reposting an image that you didn’t take.using another person’s thoughts or ideas that aren’t your own.
mentioning statistics that you didn’t conclude yourself.There are many instances where you will need to cite your sources. Not only does giving credit to the original author make them look good, but it also makes you look more credible. As a content writer at a marketing agency, I know how important it is to properly cite sources in our client’s blogs as well as social media posts.