Inside Higher Education has a nice article today about why academics should use Twitter.
We’ll conclude our Boost Your Scholarly Profile series in a few weeks with a guide to getting started with Twitter for academics but why not learn more about the benefits of Twitter?
Tech Happy Hour: Introduction to Social Media for Academics
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a Tech Happy Hour and library workshop. Have you heard the buzz about social media, but haven’t yet taken the plunge? Intrigued, but not sure about its scholarly uses? Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues at our Tech Happy Hour and learn how academics are using the tools of social media to connect, collaborate, and share with the scholarly community at CUNY and beyond. Tools discussed will include Twitter, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, the CUNY Academic Commons, and more!
Our Happy Hour will be held on Tuesday March 12, 5:30-7pm in Rm. A632 (Faculty and Staff Lounge). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Save the Dates!
Our schedule of drop-in faculty workshops for the Spring 2013 semester is:
JUST ADDED! Getting Started with Instructional Web Design
Wednesday, March 20, 1-2pm
Introduction to Photoshop
Wednesday, April 10, 1-2pm
JUST ADDED! Introduction to Citation Managers
Wednesday, April 24, 1-2pm
For more information, or to schedule a workshop by request, visit our website.
Social Media and Privacy
Social media has changed the way people interact with one another. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, flickr, all allow us to share information about ourselves. We can easily learn details about one another, such as our favorite books, jobs, families, hometown and even our birth place and date. This leads to many privacy concerns that users may not fully understand.
A recent study by Columbia University looked at Facebook users’ flawed use of the site’s privacy settings. Researchers found that all 65 participants not only disclosed information they had meant to hide, but also hid data they wished to share. Participants also perceived that their privacy settings were also configured correctly.
Here are a few resources that can assist you in protecting your privacy on facebook:
– Myopenbook.com – This website demonstrates the ease in using facebook’s own search engine to discover status updates.
– Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings – Gina Trapani
– Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization – Yes You Have to Opt Out – Librarian by Day
Lastly, Steven Bellovin, one of the researchers in the Columbia study, suggests this to protecting your privacy: “The simplest thing is don’t post something you don’t want the world to see.”
Faculty Workshop: Learn to Blog and Use Twitter
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Blogs continue to change how scholarly ideas are expressed and exchanged. Workshop participants will learn how to set up and maintain a blog using WordPress, how to use the Twitter microblogging service, and how to find scholarly information in the “blogosphere.”
This workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 20, 1-2pm in Rm A540 (Atrium). RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Faculty Workshop: Web 2.0 Happy Hour
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, invites all faculty to:
Web 2.0 Happy Hour
Tuesday, May 5
5:30-7:00pm
Faculty Lounge A632 (Atrium Bldg)
Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues, and learn about online technologies for teaching and scholarship:
– Twitter: a microblogging service for conversation and announcements
– Delicious: a website for organizing and sharing your bookmarks
– Google Docs: a service for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations
– RSS Feeds: receive journal publication alerts and read blogs and news websites
RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
