MLA 2019 Resources
Please visit our collaborative google doc for a growing list of resources (and to add your own suggestions): bit.ly/goingpublic-2019
Before You Start:
- Lisa Rhody, Building A Digital Scholarly Identity – Personal Inventory to Strategy
- Miriam Posner, Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics
- Christopher P. Long, Going Viral with Your Scholarship
- Heather Froehlich, How I Use Twitter as an Academic
- Lisa Tagliaferri’s remarks from the 2018 session on HASTAC
- Brian Croxall, How to Overcome What Scares Us About Our Online Identities
Taking Control of Your Data & Persona Online:
- Jason Fitzpatrick, Establish and Maintain Your Online Identity
- Tactical Technology Collective’s curated 8-day Data Detox
- Erin Glass’s Ten Tricks for Resisting Surveillance Capitalism in and through the Classroom
Getting Started:
- Alicia Hatch, Five Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Personal Brand
- Andrian Valeanu’s explanation of color concepts in design
- Ryan Cordell, How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)
- GC Digital Fellows, WordPress Workshop
- Digital Identity, a similar session from MLA 2017 with resources available on Humanities Commons. Participants: Nicky Agate, Patricia Hswe, Amanda Licastro, Andrew Pilsch, Daniel Powell, Jentery Sayers, Liana Silva, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Zach Whalen, Amanda Licastro
Ready For More:
- Lori Ruff, How Often Should You Update Your LinkedIn Profile?
- Brian Croxall, How to Google Yourself Effectively
- Kelli Marshall, How to Maintain Your Digital Identity as an Academic
- Alan Henry, How to Clean Up Your Online Presence and Make a Great First Impression
- In the Library and Online: Social Media & Civic Discourse by S. A. Mairson
- Program Social Media Fellows at The Graduate Center, CUNY website Social Mediums, which includes tutorials, blog posts, and curated content from the web about social media and professional development
Public document from MLA 2018: bit.ly/goingpublic-mla18