New WP Plugins
I thought I’d report back on a few tweaks to TTF I’ve made this past week. You’ll notice that the tag cloud on the sidebar is now reformatted to a nice, clean, bulleted list thanks to the Reciprocity Wordpress Configurable Tag Cloud Plugin . It’s a simple and highly-customizable plug-in that helps display tags in a more friendly light. You probably also noted we’ve added a “Share This” link on all of our posts to allow you to share to whatever source you wish. Thanks to Crowd Favorite and Alex King. | Plug-in Homepage
We’ve added a Twitter feed thanks to Alex King’s twitter feed plugin. This will allow us to post updates and tweets to the home page. You can follow TTF on Twitter @academictech.
Feel free to follow us and also post comments on your use of Twitter. One of our faculty (@wallymetts) noted that literally less than an hour after he created his Twitter account, he had about 100 people following him. He was curious about the effect of Twitter on his academic blog, so he watched his Google Analytics as he posted tweets to see how it affected traffic. Everytime he tweeted, he saw a spike in pageviews of this blog. We can see evidence of this as Twitter has become a marketing tool. We’ve written briefly on Twitter and will do some more next week to review a pretty compelling article.
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How do you use Twitter? Do you use it? If so, how? Any pedagogical uses? Feel free to post your twitter feed and we’ll follow you.
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