Home of the Social Media Fellowship Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY
We are a team of graduate students who model and promote digital strategies to foster community engagement with the academic and scholarly work of the students, alumni, faculty, and staff of the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Tutorials
Are you looking for guidance on how to get started using a particular tool, software, or website? We have written many tutorials. See the most recent below or check out the whole list here.
Five latest posts
- How to add a user to a site on the CUNY Academic Commons
- Avoiding Videos and Screenshots: How to Create Educational Gifs for Learning Tech
- Streamlining Image Posting on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
- Creating a Program Blog Site using the CUNY Academic Commons
- Using the PressForward plugin to create a new post on your WordPress website
Best Practices
Wondering how to best make use of social media, or what to think of before engaging with a larger public audience? Take a look at our reflections on best practices. The most recent are listed below, the full list can be found here.
Five latest posts
- What’s in a hashtag? How to use hashtags strategically on Twitter
- Dos and Don’ts on LinkedIn
- Ask the kids! Looking to research on child development in digital contexts to create a value-based model for social media use
- The Power of Pausing Social Media
- 5 Simple Ways for Faculty to Engage Online & Boost their Department’s Digital Presence
Critical Scholarly Communication
Our recent project on Critical Scholarly Communication deserves a longer introduction, but in short, we are creating an online resource guide on digital scholarly communication from a critical perspective. Listed here is the most recent content. See the project page for full information.
Five latest posts
Do you have tools, websites, or topics that we haven’t covered in the material above? Let us know!
