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This week the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) at Emory University released “Tweeting #OWS,” a project that archives and maps over 10,000,000 tweets associated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The project is particularly important in showing how the archiving and mapping of tweets can help preserve history.

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Are you interested in making your research available to a wider audience using digital resources? Have you considered the possible benefits of using social media, blogs, or video to expand your reach? The use of online resources for academic and professional research purposes is a growing yet largely underdeveloped and oftentimes ambiguous field….

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All Five Parts

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“I have this theory that if you are effective on social media then you stand a good chance of being effective in online teaching. How do these two activities go together?

Two words: presence and community....”

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Marquis  in the hall

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This was the subject of a provocative article posted on Oracle's blog, two days ago. It certainly shows how far from the reality some big companies are. They c…

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Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College and the author, most recently, of Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television. He blogs at An und für sich where this was originally published. There are a few facts that every grad student must come to terms with:

Adjunct teaching is exploitative.

There’s a very real possibility that one will ultimately be unable to find a suitable academic position.

Having a PhD can seriously hurt one’s “civilian” employment prospects.

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Sarah Kendzior earned her PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is now a columnist for Al Jazeera English, a public speaker, a researcher and a consultant. Find her online at SarahKendzior.com and follow her on Twitter @sarahkendzior.

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Finally!... I found something useful on careers in academic publishing.

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If you don't manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you.

[I'm getting a sense of deja vu with all these online presence advice columns...but this one's a little more advanced]

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These slides offer an overview of what you can do to prepare for an academic or non-academic career after a Chemistry PhD in the UK.

via @chishumphrey 

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This site needs more Bill Traylor. This one is “Men Drinking, Boys Tormenting, Dogs Barking”

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And since it's Sunday, this must be Wölfli! (Adolf Wölfli, 1917)