Social media can help you build professional and social community, find jobs, learn from others, share your work, ask questions, and hear about new ideas and projects. After the implosion of multiple other social platforms, the Bluesky platform has become one of the best options to keep accessing those benefits. This webinar will be aimed at GLAM folks considering trying out Bluesky, or who’ve dipped a toe in but not felt comfortable using it yet.
During this session, participants will learn:
A few simple steps to get started on Bluesky
How to find and build community
How to have a safe and lower-stress social media experience there
And you won’t need to take notes, as there’s a detailed written guide for your reference after the talk!
About our presenter:
Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti (they/them) is Director of the Scholars’ Lab, a community research center for experimental and digital humanities learning at the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, VA. Their educational background is in libraries and literature; professionally, they’ve worked in academia, libraries and archives, tech, and the digital humanities community that spans all three. They’re a big fan of DIY (do-it-yourself) scholarly/learning communication, and in addition to being a frequent social media user (literaturegeek.bsky.social), they blog (LiteratureGeek.com), develop websites, do a variety of craft and makerspace work (e.g. https://amandavisconti.github.io/DHMakesMethodz), and author and catalogue zines (ZineBakery.com).