Announcing my DigiWriMo project – 30 Days of Social
As I mentioned in my ‘links of the week‘ post, I have signed up for Digital Writing Month. This means that over the month of November, I will write 50,000 words of digital writing. Since DigiWriMo is...
View Article30 Days of Social: Day 1 – Introductions
Welcome to the first day of my Digital Writing Month (DigiWriMo) project, 30 Days of Social. This project will explore my relationship with social media, and how it influences my life and work as an...
View ArticleDay 2: How to stay connected when you’re out of the loop
After finishing my undergraduate degree I was accepted into a grad program in the UK. As a Canadian citizen, I had to apply for a UK student visa in order to enter the UK as a student. Two days before...
View ArticleDigiWriMo Day 3: 2D grocery stores? – how QR codes are being used in South Korea
QR codes (Quick Response codes), those little black and white squares that resemble an 8-bit Jackson Pollock painting, are increasingly popping up everywhere and on everything. These matrix barcodes...
View ArticleDigiWriMo Day 5: ‘Groundswell’ Review
A few months ago, after reading a post on the blog History Punk about how academics can develop a personal digital marketing strategy, I asked the blog’s author Jo Hawkins to recommend a book from the...
View ArticleDigiWriMo Day 6 – Do loose lips sink scholarships?
I’m a firm believer that you should never write anything digitally that you wouldn’t want the entire world to see. A tweet, email, or Facebook status written in haste can come back to haunt you in...
View ArticleDigiWriMo Day 7 – Is Web 2.0 dead? Or can it even die?
The other day Beth and I were talking about the ubiquity of Facebook in our lives. Neither of us particularly like the service, but its a service we can’t see ourselves discontinuing in the foreseeable...
View ArticleDigiWriMo Day 8 – Social networking the old fashioned way
As Digital Writing Month comes to a close I’ve been reflecting on my experience with the month long writing project. It’s unfortunate that DigiWriMo fell in the middle of a very busy month for me –...
View ArticleLinks of the Week – DigiWriMo is dead! Long live DigiWriTriMo!
November has gone by in a blur. Between trying to work on my DigiWriMo project, a two week vacation, moving, and visiting family this month has flown by. Now that December is here, ivrytwr is going to...
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