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June 6, 2017 by Maha Bali

Twitter Continues to Fail at Handling Harassment

[This article is co-authored with Kate Bowles. Dr Bowles is Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Law Humanities and Arts at the University of Wollongong. She writes online at musicfordeckchairs.com and tweets @KateMFD.]

Note: we are intentionally not sharing specific examples we have seen in order to protect those who have been recent targets of harassment.

Imagine this. You use Twitter in teaching, or for professional development, or at conferences. It’s been an important environmen…

April 17, 2017 by Lee Skallerup Bessette

Supermute Twitter

I’ve been talking a lot about Twitter lately here on ProfHacker, but it’s still one of my favorite places to be online. However, sometimes, I don’t want to see certain things in my timeline. Certainly you can use the Mute function on Twitter, but why use a subtle, flexible, and complex tool when you can use a blunt instrument?

Enter Supermute:

Supermute is a blunt tool. You can define any phrase you’d like to mute for up to 7 days. During that time period, if anyone in your timeline (including …

March 23, 2017 by Lee Skallerup Bessette

Save That Hashtag! Twitter Recorder Extension

We’ve written about Twitter a lot here at ProfHacker. One of the best ways to archive tweets, particularly around a particular search term or hashtag is Martin Hawksey’s TAGS archive, which George recently wrote about. But the TAGS archive works best if you already know you want to archive a hashtag or search term; the archives can only go as far back as the Twitter API will allow, which isn’t all the way back.

I ran into this problem when I wanted to go back and collect all of the #FYCchat arc…

January 24, 2017 by Lee Skallerup Bessette

Getting Started on Academic Twitter v2.0

At this year’s MLA Convention, I was invited to give a workshop on getting started on social media, namely, Twitter. It was an interesting full-circle moment for me, as is writing this piece; my first ProfHacker appearance was because of my virtual participation at MLA11.

I’ve written recently for ProfHacker about why I still find Twitter valuable. And apparently, many academics are, if not seeing the value, then at least interested enough to attend a session by me at the MLA Convention in 2017…

November 28, 2016 by Maha Bali

Are You on Mastodon Yet? Social Network of Our Own

Have you heard of Mastodon.social? Several of the edtech/digped people started appearing there over Thanksgiving weekend, thanks in part to this article, touting Mastodon as the open source alternative to Twitter. According to their “About” page:

“Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication. Anyone can run Mastodon and participate in the social network seamle…

October 6, 2016 by Maha Bali

Scheduling Tweets? On Mobile?

For years, I have been using Tweetdeck to schedule tweets. Yesterday I suddenly wondered why I couldn’t just schedule tweets from an app on my mobile. So I searched and found this Mashable article recommending 3 free tools (it called them apps so I thought they were mobile apps, but they’re actually web-based) and I thought they worked better than Tweetdeck for some things but worse for others.

I schedule tweets for the following purposes:

To pre-tweet questions or notes during a conference …

June 3, 2016 by Maha Bali

EdTech Conference Etiquette: Tips from eLearning Africa

I spend so much time smoothly meeting strangers online that it feels a lot more awkward going to events where I don’t have close friends or colleagues. I can handle being on my own for some time, but after a while I really want to be sitting next to someone I know at each session so we can talk about it, and have interesting companions at lunch. Why would you go to a conference if you aren’t going to network, right?

I was recently at eLearning Africa in Cairo, and I could only do a pre-conferen…

Jason B. Jones

@jbj

Jason B. Jones is Director of Educational Technology at Trinity College.

George H. Williams

@GeorgeOnline

George H. Williams is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Amy Cavender

@acavender

Amy Cavender is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and Associate Professor of Political Science and interim Director of the Center for Academic Innovation at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.

Ryan Cordell

@ryancordell

Ryan Cordell is Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University.

Brian Croxall

@briancroxall

Brian Croxall is the Digital Humanities Strategist at Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) and Lecturer of English.

Erin E. Templeton

@eetempleton

Erin E. Templeton is the Anne Morrison Chapman Distinguished Professor of International Study and an associate professor of English at Converse College.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

@kfitz

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is director of scholarly communication of the Modern Language Association and Visiting Research Professor of English at New York University.

Natalie M. Houston

nmhouston

Natalie M. Houston is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a personal productivity coach for academics and professionals.