{"id":2549,"date":"2013-09-12T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2013-09-12T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:28:09","slug":"guide-to-twitter-for-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/09\/12\/guide-to-twitter-for-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Twitter for academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/files\/2011\/11\/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2550\" style=\"margin: 5px\" alt=\"LSE Guide To Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GuideToTwitter-211x300.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/GuideToTwitter-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/09\/GuideToTwitter.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>Recently a number of colleagues have asked whether there is a guide to Twitter aimed at academics who have never previously tweeted. Fortunately there is &#8211; an excellent introduction, produced by Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran and Patrick Dunleavy of the LSE Public Policy Group, and made available under a Creative Commons licence.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LSE Twitter Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/files\/2011\/11\/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Using Twitter in University Research, Teaching and Impact Activities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is full of sound, practical advice and is the best guide I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>See also the <a title=\"Lboro social media guidelines\" href=\"https:\/\/internal.lboro.ac.uk\/service\/marketing\/uniwide\/web\/social-media\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">social media guidelines<\/a>\u00a0produced by Marketing and Communications here at Loughborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a number of colleagues have asked whether there is a guide to Twitter aimed at academics who have never previously tweeted. Fortunately there is &#8211; an excellent introduction, produced by Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran and Patrick Dunleavy of the LSE Public Policy Group, and made available under a Creative Commons licence. Using Twitter in<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/09\/12\/guide-to-twitter-for-academics\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}