Tag Archives: twitter

Welcome to Fall 2015!

Hello, GSLIS students new and returning! Welcome to the GSLIS Help Desk/ITD Desk webpage.  To those of you who didn’t get the opportunity to visit us during one of your building tours or orientation, let me give you a rundown of what it is we do.

Quiz: What Blogging Platform is Right for You?

What Blogging Platform is right for you?   1. What do you want to do with blogging? What do you want to mainly use your blog for? (or something like that) a)    Mostly view b)    Mostly post c)    Read and post equally d)    Only view   2.  To whom are you trying to reach? What read more »

Website of the Week

Some blogs to check out! Check out the APA Style Blog. I heard about this from @ALALibrary. Some posts of interest: How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part I How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations Another nice blog to check out is the Young Adult Library Services read more »

ALA on Twitter and Flickr

ALA still goes on, but GSLIS IT (Help Desk and ITD) are in Champaign Urbana to keep the show running and prepare for the upcoming LEEP Boot Camp! Several of us did make it (and some are probably at McCormick Place as I type this entry up) and got to meet the likes of Neil read more »

Word of the Week

This week’s word(s) of the week are related to Twitter. Twitter- Twitter in Plain English from Common Craft explains what Twitter is all about with helpful paper cutouts. cnet’s Newbie’s Guide to Twitter may also be useful for those who want more detail or prefer a printed explanation. Tweets- posts to Twitter. You only have read more »