Finding My Voice: Building a Readership on Social Media
Fiona Carty, a third-year criminology student at LJMU, shares her experiences of blogging and explains how it is shaping her job opportunities as a journalist.
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You’ll Never Walk Alone: Sports Journalism & Social Media
Second-year student Heather Carroll talks about how her blogging and social media work on Liverpool Football Club has already helped her in pursuing a career in sports journalism.
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Creating Your Networks
Establishing a network and online following does not happen over night. Whilst a majority of us would love to wake up one morning with 100 new Twitter followers, 65 comments on your blog post, 150 shares on Facebook or 300 likes on a new Instagram...
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What is Social Media?
There’s a lot more to social media than the basic OED definition of “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” That is the basic function that we can expect from any site professing to be...
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Pressing Publish: My First Blogging Experience
Choosing modules for the final year of undergraduate study can prove to be very difficult. With a range of exciting routes of study, it is hard to be selective and narrow choices down. As a rather traditional English student, I prefer to have set texts...
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Choosing Your Platforms
Cleo and Marnie explain some of the pros and cons of various blogging and social networking sites to help you decide which ones might (not) be right for you.
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Blogging Platforms
The internet is saturated with free blogging platforms, and choosing one can be a difficult prospect if you’re going in blind. From WordPress and Blogger to the smaller platforms with less well-known names, each has its own set of positive features and drawbacks. Here’s a...
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Social Media & the Quest for Writing Work
Cleo Chalk talks about how blogging and social media have helped her secure freelance writing work.
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The Project
Social Media Skills for Students is a project based in the English department of Liverpool John Moores University. It’s motivated by the fact that social media skills have become an integral aspect of the competencies expected of graduates in the job market in the digital...
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10 Things No One Tells You About Getting Paid to Facebook
I’ve been a student on and off for most of my life. In the two years that I took a real, full-time ‘break’ from the academic mill (assuming applying for PhD funding and attending vampire conferences don’t count as studying), I worked as a web editor...
My Facebook Blogging Experience
Similar to most people who have attempted blogging, I started a number of blogs before I committed to one. After thoroughly thinking over the reason for this, I found that one of them is that, you need to understand why you are blogging and whom...
Week 1: Introduction & Set-Up
This is the first workshop for the Express Yourself: Presentation & Social Media Skills module, run by Dr Nadine Muller at LJMU’s English department.
Social Media Skills: An LJMU Undergraduate Module
This is a second-year module I designed as part of LJMU’s compulsory work-related learning component. It is available to joint and single-honors English students at LJMU’s School of Humanities & Social Science and the Liverpool Screen School and is currently running in its third year with approximately twenty students.
Teaching Social Media Skills
In this section you can find presentations and exercises for workshops and seminars on different aspects of social media as well as stories from those who have taught social media in higher education.
Teaching Social Media Skills: About Our Resources
This is a brief introduction to the material available in this section and a call for other lecturers to contribute their stories, experiences, and ideas.
Social Media Skills Modules
In this category you find an example of what a social media module could look like, and we hope to collate more examples in the near future.
Workshops & Seminars
In this section you can find presentations and exercises for workshops and seminars on different aspects of social media.
