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Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Organization’s Social Media Presence

January 4, 2012

It is important to note that establishing a good social media policy is crucial before indulging in this exciting world of conversation and knowledge sharing. Most of the following points appear in the social media policy for Banting House. If you’re looking for a foundation, there are plenty social media policy templates online.

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What will the future history of today look like? Digital literacy for the next generation.

September 26, 2011

Ian Milligan argues that we will need to make dramatic changes to history undergraduate curriculums by aggressively implementing digital literacy programmes. This will benefit both our students and the historical profession.

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Sir John A. Uses Twitter?

May 30, 2011

A look at dead, historically prominent Canadians who have twitter accounts

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Twitter in the Classroom

March 3, 2011

This post discusses the potential uses of Twitter in the classroom, from the position of somebody who was once a skeptic.

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The Revolution Will Be Rubbernecked

February 16, 2011

While the recent protest movements in the Middle East reveal much about the present state of civic community among the people of those nations — Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt (and a growing list of others) — our reaction to them reveals more about ourselves than we should perhaps find flattering.

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How Useful is the Library of Congress’ Twitter Archive?

June 4, 2010

On Wednesday 14 April, the United States of America’s Library of Congress (LOC) announced a deal with the popular social networking service, Twitter, to archive all public messages on the site right down to the first “tweet” from @jack (Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder) on 21 March 2006, at 3:50 PM. Response to the news can [...]

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Should We Embrace the Short URL?

May 5, 2010

The increasing number of primary and secondary sources made available by various online archives and databases continue to aid researchers and enrich the historical community as a whole. But they have also created challenges for more conventional forms of resource sharing in a community where print arguably remains the standard. While websites have generally made [...]

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