Your Online Scholarly Presence: Blogs & Tweets

You can use WordPress to create a blog; it is available through Tufts:

 Communication and Collaboration

To subscribe to RSS feeds, look for the orange icon.

You need an RSS reader, examples:

Bloglines

Feedly

Old Reader

Pulse

Twitter

Essentially a blog limited to 140 characters. Use it to show what you are interested in. You can mix the professional, scholarly, and personal. You can follow anyone; you do not have to be "friends." Twitter can add to your professional profile.

TweetDeck -  Twitter tool for tracking, organizing and engaging

How to get started on Twitter (from ProfHacker, Ryan Cordell)

Ten Tips for Tweeting at Conferences (from ProfHacker, Brian Croxall)

Mom This is How Twitter Works