In Michaelmas Term, Bodleian Libraries and IT Services is running ‘Engage: Social Media Michaelmas’ – a series of social media and digital communications events around the University with the aim of helping an academic community of staff and students explore tools and strategies for building online presence, social networking and digital engagement.

The programme of events includes workshops on online presence and editing Wikipedia, classes on podcasting, image manipulation and copyright and lunchtime sessions on Facebook pages, Twitter for Academia, keeping up to date, etc. There will a number of outside speakers to discuss areas such as using social media to improve your citation rankings, working with Creative Commons licensing and more. See www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/engage/ for further details on events.

Learning in a self-directed online programme

The programme of events is designed to complement a University-wide 23 Things for Research course. This particular programme is aimed at University researchers, academics, students and staff and offers a self-directed online programme that provides a framework in which to explore 23 social media and digital communications ‘things’ over a period of ten weeks. The 23 Things for Research blog provides information on signing up and can be used to follow along and see who else in the University community is participating.

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