The fall semester is now back in full swing, and blog authors in the ACI Scholarly Blog Index are blogging on everything from departmental grants and publish-or-perish debates to the best new e-learning tools and classroom instruction strategies. With blogs covering...
Selections from the ACI Blog
Category: Social Media
The following post is authored by Christopher Moyer, and was first published on October 2, 2015. Christopher is the Vice President of Technology at ACI Information Group and the author of “Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns, and...
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...
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...
The journalism and news industry has changed dramatically in recent years and the continued growth of social news consumption has changed not only how audiences get news but also how journalists create news stories. In a recent study by Edelman Media Network,...
While there are still many people in the legal profession who worry about publishing online content and posting on social media sites, things have changed a lot in the past few years. Attorneys and Digital Content in 2011 In 2011, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell...
Do you let your content writers tweet updates from your competitor publishers? The Hindu doesn’t. That’s according to a memo sent by The Hindu managing editor P. Jacob and senior managing editor V. Jayanth that Mint reviewed earlier today. The note tells...
New data from Facebook’s second quarter 2014 results shows just how big the social networking site has grown. As Shift Communications reports, Facebook reaches half of the connected human race. In other words, 47.8% of all people around the world who have...
Some people learn by hearing. Others learn by reading. And others learn by seeing. The basics of human psychology and neurology tell us that to successfully communicate with a wide audience, you need to create content that engages with those people based on the way...