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)