[FOSDEM] Improve main picture on website for use in social media

[Ghosty]

ok added the opengraph tags ... looks like that's working now.
Now lets see for the twitterstuff ;)

Regards,

G

On 22/12/2015 15:55, Emanuil Tolev wrote:
> At the slight risk of posting a bit too often in these threads - I know
> of 2 social integrations which allow pictures and one crawler-y piece of
> metadata:
>
>
> Facebook OpenGraph tags (just pasted from an app I contributed to, or
> for some more info there seems to be a reasonable blog post
> http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/03/25/social-media-meta-tags-how-to-use-open-graph-and-cards/
> ):
>
> <!-- Open Graph tags for Facebook -->
> <meta property="og:title" content="Directory of Open Access Journals"/>
> <meta property="og:url" content="https://doaj.org" />
> <meta property="og:description" content="DOAJ is an online directory
> that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed
> journals."/>
> <meta property="og:image"
> content="https://doaj.org/static/doaj/images/logo_square.jpg"/>
>
>
> Twitter cards with a picture (
> https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary-large-image ):
>
> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@nytimes">
> <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@SarahMaslinNir">
> <meta name="twitter:title" content="Parade of Fans for Houston’s Funeral">
> <meta name="twitter:description" content="NEWARK - The guest list and
> parade of limousines with celebrities emerging from them seemed more
> suited to a red carpet event in Hollywood or New York than than a gritty
> stretch of Sussex Avenue near the former site of the James M. Baxter
> Terrace public housing project here.">
> <meta name="twitter:image"
> content="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/19/us/19whitney-span/19whitney-span-articleLarge.jpg">
>
>
> DublinCore (DC) metadata - incidentally that seems to already be there
> on pages, incl. FOSDEM homepage:
>
> <link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0/" />
> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Welcome to FOSDEM 2016"/>
> <meta name="DC.Format" content="text/html" />
> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en" />
> <meta name="DC.Subject" content="FOSDEM 2016" />
> <meta name="DC.Rights"
> content="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/be/" />
>
> hth,
> Emanuil
>
> On 22 December 2015 at 14:16, Ghosty <ghosty.be at gmail.com
> <mailto:ghosty.be at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 22/12/2015 14:17, Pander wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         Could the website offer a nice main image for usage in social
>         media? If
>         you share a link to http://fosdem.org/2016 on Twitter, LinkedIn,
>         Facebook, Google+ and so on, the map of the campus is being shown as
>         image, which is not the most representable image for the event.
>
>         It is possible to indicate in the website (hidden or not) which
>         picture/logo should be picked up by social media when sharing
>         the link
>         of the site. Could someone have a go at improving this?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Pander
>
>
>     Anyone suggestions how this should look like in the webcode? (not
>     sure how different social media pick up stuff from your website as
>     being the "banner or logo" in preview ...).
>     So I can pass this info on to the website guys?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     G.
>
>
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