Author Archives: Sue Beckingham

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About Sue Beckingham

An Associate Professor, National Teaching Fellow and Teaching and Learning lead for Computing and Digital Technologies at Sheffield Hallam University with a research interest in the use of social media in higher education.

Thinking about your online social and professional identity

The sharing of images online through social media sites has become increasingly easy to do. Many of us can now take a photo using our mobile phone and share almost instantly via our digital social channels such as Facebook and … Continue reading

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Different ways to organise and bookmark your favourite weblinks

There are a number of different tools you can use to organise and bookmark the social media sites, websites and blogs you visit most. The likes of Diigo and Delicious enable you to save, sort, and search through your own … Continue reading

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Social Media Jargon: What are all these new words and abbreviations?!

On my Twitter page I have listed some of the words and abbreviations associated with Twitter and tweeting. These include: RT or Retweet – this is when a message is reused and the originator is acknowledged MT or Modified Tweet – a retweet that has been … Continue reading

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The Social Media Revolution 2013 by @equalman

Erik Qualman is a leading speaker on the use of social media, providing statistics and clear evidence of the phenomenal growth of social media. He is author of two excellent books which have gone on to be translated into many languages. Socialnomics: … Continue reading

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There’s more to YouTube than videos about cats (entertaining as they may be!)

YouTube continues to provide a social forum that entertains us through videos uploaded by individuals all over the world. In it’s 7th year (yes prior to 2005 there was no YouTube!) is now owned by Google. Three hours of video … Continue reading

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Developing your own Professional Online Presence

It goes without saying that the exponential growth of social media is impacting on our lives today in ways we had never experienced 10 years ago. In fact many of the tools we are now using didn’t exist prior to … Continue reading

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Twitter #hashtags explained

The use of a # hashtag (US pound sign) was introduced by Chris Messina in 2007 as a way to group tweet conversations. Little did he know then how much they would go on to be used! how do you … Continue reading

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A blueprint plan to achieving a complete LinkedIn profile

To achieve a 100% complete profile in the eyes of LinkedIn they say it must contain the following: Industry and postal code A current position with description Two more positions Education At least 5 skills Profile photo At least 50 … Continue reading

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Getting started on Twitter? Help is at hand

If you have just joined Twitter welcome to the Twittersphere! Rest assured that whilst it may seem a bit daunting to start with, once you start to follow people that interest you (this is important) you will start to engage … Continue reading

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