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30 Days of Social: Day 1 – Introductions
Welcome to the first day of my Digital Writing Month (DigiWriMo) project, 30 Days of Social. This project will explore my relationship with social media, and how it influences my life and work as an...
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Day 2: How to stay connected when you’re out of the loop
After finishing my undergraduate degree I was accepted into a grad program in the UK. As a Canadian citizen, I had to apply for a UK student visa in order to enter the UK as a student. Two days before...
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DigiWriMo Day 3: 2D grocery stores? – how QR codes are being used in South Korea
QR codes (Quick Response codes), those little black and white squares that resemble an 8-bit Jackson Pollock painting, are increasingly popping up everywhere and on everything. These matrix barcodes...
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DigiWriMo Day 4: My blender hates the president? Why twitter should be used...
I didn’t plan it this way, but it’s remarkable timing that my only DigiWriMo post that discusses US politics falls on the day of the presidential election. While it remains to be seen if social media...
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DigiWriMo Day 5: ‘Groundswell’ Review
A few months ago, after reading a post on the blog History Punk about how academics can develop a personal digital marketing strategy, I asked the blog’s author Jo Hawkins to recommend a book from the...
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DigiWriMo Day 6 – Do loose lips sink scholarships?
I’m a firm believer that you should never write anything digitally that you wouldn’t want the entire world to see. A tweet, email, or Facebook status written in haste can come back to haunt you in...
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DigiWriMo Day 7 – Is Web 2.0 dead? Or can it even die?
The other day Beth and I were talking about the ubiquity of Facebook in our lives. Neither of us particularly like the service, but its a service we can’t see ourselves discontinuing in the foreseeable...
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DigiWriMo Day 8 – Social networking the old fashioned way
As Digital Writing Month comes to a close I’ve been reflecting on my experience with the month long writing project. It’s unfortunate that DigiWriMo fell in the middle of a very busy month for me –...
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Serendip-o-matic as a potential model for open online academic work
The One Week, One Tool project has created significant buzz in the digital humanities community with its Serendip-o-matic search tool. While I take issue with the projects claims of diversity and...
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A gamified life – a project to gamify more aspects of my life in 2014
Two trends that emerged for me in 2013 were being asked to speak about gamification and a gradual decent into becoming a complete physical wreck. Between moving to a city that isn’t walking or biking...
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