Use whichever social media platform you are comfortable with and make sure you engage with our posts whenever you can.
If you are interested to learn more – join the media team or contact one of the Nannas working on your preferred platform.
Our aim is to be friendly, frequent, informative and funny on social media to attract more followers to help us get our messages out, and to empower more people to act on the things we care about.
Follow us on your social media
Like – Share – Comment on our posts on all platforms
It can be just a quick “Go Nannas!”, but comments that generate discussion are best. Algorithms (the processes social platforms use to sort content) will then push our messages out further, providing the opportunity to increase our followers.
Check/edit
If you see an error or something looks wrong on our social media posts, please contact whoever posted it so they can correct it quickly.
Content required
Send content for social media to our Signal channel called Sydney Media. This is not a chat group – it is where our social media team scrolls down to find content. To contribute you need to download the Signal App and ask to be added to the list.
Audiences respond best to our own photos, videos or graphics. Anything we have made/ done/ said ourselves, plus action photos. Check existing posts first so you don’t double up, unless your content is better
Please post the following content on Sydney Media:
- Your best only photos and videos of Nannas and friends in action. See below for the best formats to shoot in for each platform.
- Accompany your photos/video with a brief report about how many people were there, what the action was about, when, where and who was there (eg which groups, pollies or other notable people). You can usually find this info on the events page on the Nanna website. If you can, include links to more information about the issue/campaign.
- Rather than videoing whole speeches (boring), try to find the speaker before or after their speech and ask them to give you a quote or a short summary of their most important point on video. Ask participants for quotes too.
- Amusing memes, signs, art or short videos (less than 60 seconds) pertinent to Nannas and our followers.
- Links to “must see” articles and videos on current Nanna issues (see 2. below)
- It’s good to react to breaking news. So if you see or hear something in the news that we’ve taken action on in the past, or that you know there’s a campaign about, suggest what our audience can do quickly to help. Include post old photos or videos of us that are still relevant to the issue.
Don’ts for Signal Sydney Media
- Don’t comment on posts, even if they are great! We know you’re trying to be nice but it really clogs up the feed and confuses the social media team. Send the person responsible a private text to tell them what you think instead J
- Don’t send in links that are behind a paywall, or photos of newspaper clippings – these don’t make good content. Instead, search for the same story on a free news site.
Social Media Platforms
Check out these details on the different social media platforms for more information on how you can help.
*When we say ‘portrait’ and ‘landscape’ for photos and videos, this is what we mean:
Top phone tips:
- Try to stay out of the wind and away from traffic noise if you’re shooting a video of anything, especially someone speaking.
- Clean your phone lens regularly so it doesn’t get smeary.
- Zoom in during videos using your phone’s 1x, 2x pre-setting, rather than “pinching” the screen to zoom in.
- Take one photo close up and another a bit further away to allow for cropping the photo to a square shape for Instagram. Many phones also allow you to choose ‘square’ while taking the photos.
Instagram – Claudia, Wendy
- Square or portrait (not landscape) photos
- Videos of less than 60 seconds
Facebook – Claudia, Anne, Wendy
- If you see a Nanna post, comment! Even just a bunch of heart emojis will do. That way the post will come up on your friends’ feeds.
- Click on ‘interested’ or ‘going’ when you see a Nanna Facebook event for the same reason.
- Send in square, portrait and landscape photos or videos.
Bluesky & X/Twitter – Janet, Eury, Tracey
- Send in square, portrait and landscape photographs
Website – Kathy, Bernie, Anne, Wendy
- Our featured image needs to be landscape. Other images can be any size
- New posts are automatically sent via email to subscribers
- Look for published media stories about the Nannas and send to Anne for posting on the website
- Send forthcoming events to Anne for the events page
- Send links to good news to Bernie, Janet, Penny, Kathy, Wendy
- Send potential Actions of the Week to Marie and Anne
- If you highly recommend an article, podcast or video – something that taught or informed you about an aspect of our work – send a link and short summary of what it’s about to Kathy for Nanna News.
YouTube – Kathy, Eury
- Short portrait videos (less than 60 seconds) or longer landscape videos.