Month: February 2017

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Tweet your Conference: Live Tweeting Workshop (3/1/2017)

When: 1 March 2017, 6:30-7:30pm
Where: Room 5414, CUNY Graduate Center

Light refreshments will be served. 

Live tweeting encourages the conversations that occur at a conference to have a life outside it. If you are running a conference this semester, or attending one, and want to learn more about how to integrate live tweeting into your conference experience, then this is the workshop for you!

Learn strategies for prepping content and building a plan of action for the conference itself, and discuss various challenges, pros and cons of live tweeting with the GC Social Media Fellows.  Light refreshments provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a device (computer, smart phone, tablet, etc.) that connects to the internet.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. You can register using this online form: http://bit.ly/2lgEiX5

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Tutorial

Site Analytics: Measuring How People Use Your Site (Part II)

In this post, the second in a series, we discuss some of the most useful numbers that can be gleaned from Google Analytics and Jetpack (see Part I here). Use these statistics to to determine how people are using your Commons site, make it more user friendly, and encourage folks to interact with your site in ways that facilitate your site’s purpose.

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Tutorial

Site Analytics: Why you should (or should not) Care about Your Site’s Stats (Part I)

In this post, the first in a series, we discuss how you can use Google Analytics and Jetpack to determine how people are using your Commons site, make it more user friendly, and encourage folks to interact with your site in ways that facilitate your site’s purpose (see Part II here). At a glance, these tools give you access to an intimidating amount of data. In this introduction we’ll discuss why you might care at all about your site’s analytics.

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