Genuine question: what are people using as an alternative to #Linkedin?

[evelinesulman@akademienl.social]

@acallegaro just nothing

[acallegaro@mas.to]

@EvelineSulman that's also a good option

[ryanrandall@hcommons.social]

@acallegaro Have you seen Knowledge Commons? It's run by academics at a public university in the USA, and it gives you a WordPress site, an institutional repository, and other things for free.

https://hcommons.org

I wouldn't quite say that it's a *full* replacement for LinkedIn—I'm on both, personally—but I certainly think of it as a better alternative.

Since you're interested in Digital Humanities, having a different type of personal site (or a few project-specific ones) might also be useful?

For instance, I taught myself to use Jekyll and GitHub Pages precisely as a small demonstration of having specific technical interests/skills, and that seems to have worked out nicely as a thing to discuss in job interviews.

I'm now an Instructional Designer, so being able to talk about a range of tech (from Jekyll to WordPress to more approachable) has been very useful. So again, having complementary sites might be worthwhile?

[mainec@fromm.social]

@acallegaro what exactly are you using LinkedIn for?

Building some professional profile or just as a distributed address book?

[paul_harts@mastodon.nl]

@fritjof @acallegaro brilliant idea! I’m going to do that too. Linked in is humble bragging intertwined with trauma-dumping these days. At least in my time line.

[acallegaro@mas.to]

@ryanrandall I knew Knowledge Commons by name, but I'd never really looked into what it actually was.

This actually looks much closer to what I'm looking for than Linkedin... thanks for sharing this.

So you have a personal webpage there?

[acallegaro@mas.to]

@mainec mostly for networking and visibility, honestly. I've never actually found a job through Linkedin, but it still seems to function as a kind of professional presence/address book

[ryanrandall@hcommons.social]

@acallegaro I do have a small profile page with them. But I'd already had my Jekyll site for years when Knowledge Commons started, so I initially made my KC account mostly to use their discussion groups ( https://hcommons.org/groups/ ).

Joining also lets people make a profile page. They're similar to websites but much simpler. Here is mine: https://hcommons.org/members/foureyedsoul/

This year I've started making a few little zines related to pedagogy, accessibility, or open education. (I was inspired by this zine a colleague made. It's hosted on a different Jekyll site I helped make: https://infolit-idaho.github.io/infolit-for-everyone/zines/#sift-zine )

For the pedagogy zines project, I'm trying to decide if I'm going to just make another Jekyll site (since I'm familiar with that process) or if I might expand the project into something I do with other people.

If I do end up making it a group thing, I'll definitely use Knowledge Commons for the website. Other people typically find WordPress far easier to pick up than Jekyll's publishing process!

[acallegaro@mas.to]

@ryanrandall This is all really interesting honedtly. The spirit of the project is very close to what I'm looking for.

The only thing that gives me pause is that everything seems to be hosted in the US, and they use services like amazonaws.

And your pedagogy zines project sounds genuinely fascinating, I've recently become really interested in zines and DIY/small publishing.

[sebastian@social.itu.dk]

@acallegaro

well, this here. it takes time to build, of course, but #mastodon can fully replace #linkedin

[acallegaro@mas.to]

@sebastian Maybe not fully replace... but definitely complement it better than most people expect

[sebastian@social.itu.dk]

@acallegaro
it s all about inertia, laziness, doublethink - as long as many "progressive" people who criticize big tech keep doing so on LinkedIn ... oh well ...