Session: Make – THATCamp SHOT 2014 http://shot2014.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:57:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Session proposal: SHOT online presence hackathon http://shot2014.thatcamp.org/2014/10/08/shot-online-presence-hackathon/ http://shot2014.thatcamp.org/2014/10/08/shot-online-presence-hackathon/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:53:02 +0000 http://shot2014.thatcamp.org/?p=145

This is a proposal for a Make session to give SHOT’s online presence a small but helpful boost. Over the session, we would improve SHOT’s Wikipedia page (which used to be very sad but has recently been updated to be a little bit better), SHOT’s Facebook presence (the conference-centric page is quite useful, but the automatically generated organization page is terrible – just look at that picture!), and so on. I have thought about starting a slightly larger project on collecting and making available programs from *all* the SHOT conferences, back to the very beginning – perhaps combined with a map interface (an early draft can be found here).

I can add that SHOT is evaluating how it can use social media more actively, and that I’m chairing an ad hoc committee that will present a report on SHOT and social media to the Executive Council at this meeting. One of the proposals there is for SHOT to recruit a social media editor, and the outcome of this session might be helpful for that person (and thus also for the organization as a whole).

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