{"id":3950,"date":"2015-01-28T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:33:14","slug":"mymom-im-back-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/mymom-im-back-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"@mymom I&#8217;m back on Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a four year hiatus I am returning to\u00a0Twitter (<a class=\"DashboardProfileCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex u-linkClean\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tweetapril\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">tweetapril<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0and quickly realizing that I have really missed out. As a participant in\u00a0a MOOC, <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.canvas.net\/courses\/415\">Introduction to Learning Technologies<\/a>, I was prompted to\u00a0connect via their hashtag (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ilt_usask\">#ilt_usask<\/a>) on Twitter (in 140 characters or less at a time).<\/p>\n<p>For anyone new to Twitter, course instructors pointed us to the very sweet and useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com\/\">Mom This is How Twitter Works<\/a>. It has some quick tips if you are a little rusty as well. For example, if you start a tweet with a username like @mymom it will limit who gets to see it, versus putting a period or other characters in front of it.<\/p>\n<p>We were also directed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/10-Commandments-of-Twitter-for\/131813\/\">10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics<\/a> from The Chronicle for Higher Education, with some sage advice on using Twitter in your personal and professional lives. I will of course recommend that you follow McGill Library (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcgilllib\">@McGillLib<\/a>) but please do not stop there. I&#8217;m following a lot of Montreal- sci-tech- library-oriented people and discovering new things everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one that I will leave you with: British Library&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/share-my-thesis\/\">#ShareMyThesis competition<\/a>. First prize for this worldwide competition is a\u00a015-inch MacBook pro. Take a look at how past and present PhD students have been sharing why their project is important\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShareMyThesis?f=realtime\" target=\"new\">#ShareMyThesis<\/a>\u00a0and consider contributing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a four year hiatus I am returning to\u00a0Twitter (@tweetapril)\u00a0and quickly realizing that I have really missed out. As a participant in\u00a0a MOOC, Introduction to Learning Technologies, I was prompted to\u00a0connect via their hashtag (#ilt_usask) on Twitter (in 140 characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/mymom-im-back-on-twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}