Dear GO::DH members,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Summer or Winter so far!
At the executive committee we are hoping to come up with ways to use our
existent social media infrastructure, read: our Twitter account, to
strengthen the ties among our various communities. Alex Gil, who currently
manages the account, gave it a facelift a few weeks ago to update the
following/followers list and ensure that it's ready to move with more
purposeful communication strategies.
The question that Alex got us started off with is how can use the account
in a distributed way to maximize multilingualism and continue the efforts
of arounddh. As always, we are sure that the best ideas will come from our
community, but just to get us started, a couple of budding ideas that we
have been thinking about include:
- Invite some of you or others or teams to take on the GO::DH Twitter
account for a short period of time (maybe a week or two) to provide a
snapshot of your work in a few tweets per day.
- Conference/symposium/event "reporting" -- invite volunteers (again
individuals or teams) to take on the account during the event and tweet
from there.
- Have a periodic #GODHchat. This is something that other communities, like
the critical librarianship #critlib, have adopted to great results.
As many of you will know, Twitter has pretty robust (sometimes even pushy)
multilingual translation capabilities. So, we think this is a great
opportunity to put that to use for the benefit of global exchanges.
Anyway, we are looking forward to hear your brilliant ideas and making the
space for what you want to see happen with the account.
Warm wishes!
Élika (for the exec)