“Do I Do It on My Phoooone?” The Twitter Post!Posted on March 13, 2014 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorLook, I get it. You’re a serious educator. And you have serious questions about Twitter.(No, yeah. Click through that link. I’ll be here when you get back.)If you’re already rolling your eyes about the idea of using Twitter, then STOP! Yes, the name sounds silly, but I’m willing to bet that hasn’t been a deal-breaker for you concerning “Google.” This post is your chance to do your homework (I’m talking especially to you, reader with a research degree!), so that if you choose not to start using Twitter, then you can reject it like an adult. But I don’t think you will…
Okay, Academics: Should I Be “LinkedIn”?Posted on September 3, 2013 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorA colleague brought this to my attention: LinkedIn is introducing “University Pages.” (The technical details are mostly over my head, but you may be interested.) It looks to me as if the initiative targets students rather than faculty, though I don’t know whether that means faculty really have no role in “University Pages.” But it raises for me the perennial question:Should I stop deleting those LinkedIn requests, and go ahead and start an account? As a scholar in Biblical Studies, should I be “LinkedIn”?As far as I know, LinkedIn helps users do two things…