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STORYTELLING FOR EDUCATORS: Social Media Myths 104

 5. "STORYTELLING USING SOCIAL MEDIA IS A WALK IN THE PARK"

One thing that would stand you out in your storytelling journey is the ability for you to stay consistent, the algorithms will only favour you if you show up and do the work so it's not about you coming around only when you have a content you want everyone to see or when you take a selfie that was a "banger", it means that you'll need to show up even on days that you’re not sure of yourself or not confident of your content. Good thing consistency is a universal principle so we don't have to talk too much about it.

One thing that works for me is the fact that I create a posting structure, at this point, I have a commitment to post daily which I don't quite recommend to everyone but because I am trying to hold myself accountable and meet up to a target for my daily blog I show up on a daily but if I am to suggest a weekly structure I would advise for like a one-day-in one-day-out kind of structure to give you enough time to engage other people's posts, send requests, check out prospective connections, reply comments, follow people following you, make quality comments on the posts you feel drawn to etc.

Abibah, a pupil of Emmanuel Anglican Pry. Sch. 1 
Remember that once you create that structure, you have to stick to it no matter what, because you'll have days when you have valid reasons not to follow your structure, but it shouldn't stop you from doing what needs to be done, except it's a genuinely valid situation but even at that, it shouldn't become a norm. I remember when I started posting daily, living in a place with little to no electricity was a huge challenge for me but I didn't let it stop me, I identified a shop that would always turn on their power generator at night so I'll just go there with my gadgets and do my posting by 7pm everyday before I sleep no matter how tiring my job was that day. I would have easily made an excuse due to the power situation but no, I showed up everyday and made my posts like everything was alright, that is what it should be. When we believe we would find a way -we always do.

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