Genuine question: what are people using as an alternative to #Linkedin?
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@acallegaro I use a simple personal website/blog that I link to in my email signature. That has worked better/translated to more work than linkedin ever did for me.
@fritjof That's interesting.
How do you use it in practice? Do you actively send the link to people/applications, or is it more something people organically find through your email signature/social profiles?
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@acallegaro Mostly the latter, although I guess one could say that I "passively" send it out to people, whenever I write them an email. I also put it on my slides when giving lectures and post it where I can - like here on mastodon where the field said "website".
I often hear from someone who has looked me up online with a search engine, that they read the stuff I have on the site.
I much prefer this, to the pseudo public wall of LinkedIn.
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@acallegaro Mostly the latter, although I guess one could say that I "passively" send it out to people, whenever I write them an email. I also put it on my slides when giving lectures and post it where I can - like here on mastodon where the field said "website".
I often hear from someone who has looked me up online with a search engine, that they read the stuff I have on the site.
I much prefer this, to the pseudo public wall of LinkedIn.
@fritjof yeah, this makes much more sense to me than the strange performativ/public-wall aspect of Linkedin
A personal website feels more intentional and human, and more representative of actual work, projects and interests.
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Genuine question: what are people using as an alternative to #Linkedin?
My work sits somewhere between teaching, academia, digital humanities, educational projects, oral history, accessibility, and open-web/community work... and LinkedIn increasingly feels kind of... "incompatible" with that ecosystem.
Curious what others are using instead.
#Fediverse #DigitalHumanities #Academic #socialmedia #academicchatter #career #careeradvice #careeradv
@acallegaro just nothing
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@acallegaro just nothing
@EvelineSulman that's also a good option
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Genuine question: what are people using as an alternative to #Linkedin?
My work sits somewhere between teaching, academia, digital humanities, educational projects, oral history, accessibility, and open-web/community work... and LinkedIn increasingly feels kind of... "incompatible" with that ecosystem.
Curious what others are using instead.
#Fediverse #DigitalHumanities #Academic #socialmedia #academicchatter #career #careeradvice #careeradv
@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.
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?
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Genuine question: what are people using as an alternative to #Linkedin?
My work sits somewhere between teaching, academia, digital humanities, educational projects, oral history, accessibility, and open-web/community work... and LinkedIn increasingly feels kind of... "incompatible" with that ecosystem.
Curious what others are using instead.
#Fediverse #DigitalHumanities #Academic #socialmedia #academicchatter #career #careeradvice #careeradv
@acallegaro what exactly are you using LinkedIn for?
Building some professional profile or just as a distributed address book?
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@acallegaro Mostly the latter, although I guess one could say that I "passively" send it out to people, whenever I write them an email. I also put it on my slides when giving lectures and post it where I can - like here on mastodon where the field said "website".
I often hear from someone who has looked me up online with a search engine, that they read the stuff I have on the site.
I much prefer this, to the pseudo public wall of LinkedIn.
@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.
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@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.
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?
@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?
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@acallegaro what exactly are you using LinkedIn for?
Building some professional profile or just as a distributed address book?
@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
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@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 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!
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@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!
@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.
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Genuine question: what are people using as an alternative to #Linkedin?
My work sits somewhere between teaching, academia, digital humanities, educational projects, oral history, accessibility, and open-web/community work... and LinkedIn increasingly feels kind of... "incompatible" with that ecosystem.
Curious what others are using instead.
#Fediverse #DigitalHumanities #Academic #socialmedia #academicchatter #career #careeradvice #careeradv
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@sebastian Maybe not fully replace... but definitely complement it better than most people expect
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@sebastian Maybe not fully replace... but definitely complement it better than most people expect
@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 ...
