Comments for Outreach 2.0

Comment on Testing Vimeo embed code by Pat Kight

Pat Kight — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:56:09 +0000

Michael: Yes, the iframe-based code seems to fail on any platform that uses the TinyMCE editor (WordPress among them). While the editor has an HTML editing function, it accepts only a limited number of HTML tags. According to the WordPress forums, iframes are not accepted because they can be used to insert malicious code into a Web page.

However, there is a workaround:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-youtube-code

Comment on Testing Vimeo embed code by michael

michael — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:36:12 +0000

This works fine. We’ve had a lot of users unable to access the vimeo video on our site. I think it’s an issue with the new code.

Comment on Tip: Shorten those long URLs by Pat Kight

Pat Kight — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:48:32 +0000

Another advantage of bit.ly (over TinyURL and other link-shrinkers) is that you can set it up to give you some statistics on how many people actually follow the link when you send it to them.

Comment on Now Tweet This! by Oregon Sea Grant Special Projects » Tip: Shorten those long URLs

Oregon Sea Grant Special Projects » Tip: Shorten those long URLs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:43:39 +0000

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Comment on Now Tweet This! by Pat Kight

Pat Kight — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:27:32 +0000

Twitter is great for extending the reach of information we’re already producing. Rick Cooper is the Twitter guy for OSG Communications; whenever we post a news item to Breaking Waves (http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/breakingwaves/), he reposts it on Twitter, with a link back to the blog (which, in turn, links to the original, more detailed content on our Web site).

Without even trying, we’ve already acquired 60-plus regular followers on Twitter, and the number grows weekly. That’s beginning to drive new visitors to the Oregon Sea Grant site; referral figures for the last few months show a steady rise in the number of visitors referred to us by Twitter (and Facebook). The raw numbers aren’t large yet (in the dozens), but it’s a sign that the minimal effort it takes to tweet a news item does pay off.

Comment on Facebook and Blogs by Pat Kight

Pat Kight — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:05:29 +0000

Oregon Sea Grant has a modest FaceBook presence, too, at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Corvallis-OR/Oregon-Sea-Grant/135736801078

Even without much content, it’s attracted a couple of dozen fans, and with Rick Cooper’s help we’re about to start pushing our Twitter feed to the page, so I expect it will get more.

While it’s easy to think of social media in terms of getting the Sea Grant “brand” out there – not an insignificant purpose – they can also be a useful tool for extending the reach of our actual content, from reporting research results to spreading the word about new publications, public meetings and cool news about the Oregon coast.

Comment on Rob’s Social Media Experience Part II: Response to Blog by Chris LaBelle

Chris LaBelle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:49:06 +0000

Rob,

These anecdotal stories of impact are very helpful and in my mind are a good reminder that blogs are especially effective in enlarging the reach of our academic and community-focused activity.

One of the main questions that we continually ask ourselves with the Electronic Papyrus blog is whether or not we could accomplish the same outreach, networking, and publishing objectives using some other medium. Our cost versus benefit ratio still tilts very heavily in the direction of benefit. What remains to be better understood is how we can translate both the core blog activity (posts, comments, analytics) as well as the peripheral activity (Twitter/Bit.ly references, Pingbacks, email contacts) into a reusable and extensible framework that helps academic bloggers meet some of their P&T requirements. I’m sure that the unsolicited examples you provide above will make up one part of that framework.

Great post!

Chris LaBelle

Comment on Rob’s Social Media Experience Part I: “Why did I bother?” by Rob Emanuel

Rob Emanuel — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:30:45 +0000

Yes, planning to for Part II.

Comment on Rob’s Social Media Experience Part I: “Why did I bother?” by Pat Kight

Pat Kight — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:01:53 +0000

Rob: I hope you’ll write a little about feedback – how do you know people are reading your blog? Can you give examples of ways in which the blog has generated further discussion or action?