Consider the following examples: A professor develops a blog during his tenure at another university. Once he settles into his new job with a different university, he realizes his entire blogging platform had been set up using his former university email address,...
Selections from the ACI Blog
Category: Blogging
Librarians, it won’t be long now before your students and faculty are back and ready to tackle the spring semester. Like that new-notebook motivation, such enthusiasm can be contagious for staff, too, and university librarians are usually ready with tips for...
The fall semester will soon start wrapping up for many colleges and universities, and we at ACI like to keep an eye out for running themes during those interesting times of transition. Some bloggers pick up the publishing pace again, eager to share what they’ve...
Whether you’re a faculty member keeping up with the hot topics and thought leaders in your academic discipline, or if you’re a student collecting resources for an upcoming assignment, the ACI Scholarly Blog Index provides many tools and features to assist you in your...
Jordan Gaines Lewis: Gaines, on Brains Visit the Blog | View in ACI In today’s post, you’ll read ACI’s interview with Jordan Gaines Lewis, a PhD candidate and research assistant studying Neuroscience at Pennsylvania State University’s College...
I have to say: here at ACI, we’re a really lucky bunch. Day after day, we’re forced to browse and revisit the blogs of the coolest, most engaged scholars in every discipline imaginable. And because all blogs are editorially curated and vetted...
Are you a blog author? You’ve got readers. On Twitter or Academia.edu? You’ve got followers. Discuss your professional interests on Facebook? You’ve got friends. From connections on LinkedIn to those in your circles for Google+, chances are you’ve got a wide variety...
Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and grew to be one of the leading blogs in the world. With 6.4 million readers per month, you’d think Gigaom was a success story that would go down in history, but things change quickly in the world of online publishing. Om...
Hashtags are an important part of content discovery, so it makes sense that they’re equally important for content promotion. In simplest terms, a tweet that is published and shared using a targeted hashtag has one additional way for people to find it than the...
When Andrew Sullivan—former blogger for Time and The Atlantic and best known for blogging for The Daily Beast and The Daily Dish—announced last week that he was retiring from blogging to focus on other things, the media world took notice. Is blogging dead?...